The New International Encyclopædia/Alabama State Agricultural and Mechanical College

ALABAMA STATE AGRICUL'TURAL AND MECHAN'ICAL COL'LEGE, originally Alabama Polytechnic Institute. An American college, situated at Auburn, Ala. It was organized in 1872, under the Federal land grant act of 1862. The value of its grounds, buildings, and equipment is $476,000, and its total income is about $51,000. It has a campus and forum of 304 acres; library, 15,000 volumes; faculty, 29; actual number of students, 384, in preparatory, collegiate, chemical and agricultural, pharmaceutical, and engineering courses.