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 believe that the mind grows so long as ^e hand is used intelligendy. To aid in meeting the demand for a course of instruction which included a liberal education and man\ial training, the department of Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering was established in the Oregon Agricultural College in 1689 under the supervision of Professor (now Dean) Grant A. Covell, a native of Pennsylvania. At first the i** ■ struction was given in a small two-story brick building, which with the present administration building, was the onlv sdiool bulding on the campus. For a number of years the Department of Mechanics in the Oregon Agricultural College was the only one of the kind in the Pacific Northwest. The Department fi:radually developed into a school of Mechanical, Electrical and Civil Engineering; and now Mechanics and Mechanical Elngineering are taught in many of the leading colleges and secondary schools throughout the region once called the Oregon Country.

Oregon Stato Training Sdbool. Its Purpose, The Oregon State Training School was established in 1 89 1, being opened in November that year, for the conlmenient, discipline, education, employment, and reformation of delinquent and inrorrierible boys between the ages of ten and eighteen years. Boys are sentenced to the care of the sehool until they arc twenty-one years old, Ijut. at the discretion of the board of control, may be paroled, after one year, as a reward for good behavior.

The School is Located about five miles southeast of Salem, on the Southern Pacific railroad, on a farm of 500 acres, of which about half is under cudivation. All the work on the farm is done by die boys, under the supervision of an expert agriculturist. Also, the boys make their own dodies and 8ho<ss, and do all the cooking and laundering for the school, under the supervision of the instructors. They attend school one-half da^ and work at their trade the other