Download or read book Connecticut Agricultural College, a History (Classic Reprint) written by Walter Stemmons and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Connecticut Agricultural College, a History A blend of idealism and of Yankee practicality, therefore, lay behind those forerunners of the Connecticut Agricultural College, the Derby Academy, the Cornwall Mission School, and the Cream Hill School. These institutions were private ventures. Useful as they were, they proved inadequate to meet the needs Of the State. In the latter years of the century Connecticut took up the task which they had laid down and pledged its resources to carrying forward the important work of improving husbandry and Of giving the sons and daughters of rural communities an appropriate education. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.