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Encyclopedia Britannica



AMES

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 851 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ALM-ANC
AMES , a city of Story county, Iowa, U.S.A., about 35 M. N. of Des Moines, at the intersection of two lines of the Chicago & North-Western railway. Pop. (189o) 1276; (1900) 2422; (1910 U. S.
census
 ) 4223. The city is the seat of the state college of
agriculture
  and mechanic arts; this institution, opened in 1869, has for its use about 1175 acres of land, on which the state has erected, at a cost of $1,200,000, thirty-two college buildings, besides dwelling-houses and buildings for farm purposes. On the college campus are beautiful groves containing several hundred varieties of trees, and in a central position stands a campanile with excellent chimes. The college offers four-year courses in agronomy, animal husbandry, dairying, domestic
economy
 , general science, veterinary
medicine
 , and civil, mechanical,
electrical
  and mining engineering. In 1909-1910 it had an enrollment of 2631 students (including 796 in the winter short course) and a library of 23,000 volumes. The cost of instruction and experimentation is met by the income from national grants (under the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1882) and by state appropriations. Ames has a
Carnegie
  library, and owns and operates its electric-
lighting
  plant and waterworks. It was laid out as a town in 1864 and was named in honour of Oakes Ames, at the time one of the proprietors of the
Cedar
  Rapids & Missouri River railway (now
part
  of the Chicago & North-Western); five years later it was incorporated.


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