Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1913 — VAIL PLANS UNIQUE COLLEGE [ARTICLE]

VAIL PLANS UNIQUE COLLEGE

Head of Telegraph Companies Declares He Will Leave Big Ranch to Educate Children. Boston.—A new college for New England that will teach boys Jo become happy and successful farmers and girls to be efficient wives and mothers is planned by Theo. N. Vail of Lyndon, yt., president of two large telegraph companies. It la to b) one of the most unique educational institutions in the world. The wealthy head of the “wire combine" has confided to close friends that he Intends to leave his great 5,000-acre ranch at Lyndon to the new college and endow It generously. Boys and girls, preferably from the country districts of New England, will be received in the academic department at the age of about twelve or fifteen years. A three or four yean* course will fit them for college or for entering the specialized branches. At his beautiful country estate at Lyndon Mr. Vail told a reporter that be is more interested in the school he is building up than in any of the great business enterprises from which he reaped a fortune. , *T believe the great secret is to teach boys and girls how to be happy

in the country as well as how to make farming scientific and profitable,” said Mr. Vail. “We shall try here to teach our boys to be happy. They will learn how to make farming a success and their minds will be broadened so that they will be good companions with themselves and with their brother farmers.”