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Caption: Course Catalog - 1896-1897
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HO COLLEGE Of AGRICULTURE HELEN E. BUTTERFIELD, M.L., Rhetoric. OSCAR QUICK, A.M., Physics. EDWARD J. LAKE, B.S., Art and Design. WILBER J. FRASER, B.S.,'Dairying. JOSEPH C. BLAIR, Horticulture. CHARLES F. HOTTES, M.S., Botany. ALBERT R. CURTISS, Wood HENRY JONES, Blacksmith. Working. AIMS AND SCOPE The College of Agriculture offers a course especially strong in chemistry, botany, zoology, physiology, and bacteriology, in which both agriculture and horticulture are taught from a scientific basis, always with regard to successful practice. The aim is to discuss and to teach the principles that underlie these two great arts. Besides affording special preparation for a technical pursuit, it is hoped that this course wiil commend itself to all lovers of rural life and its affairs in offering them the means of keeping pace with the increasing desire for higher learning. To give scope for individual preferences one full study is made elective after the freshman year. This affords the opportunity to elect by courses, if desired, and insures the uninterrupted pursuit of elective work. METHODS OF INSTRUCTION Instruction is by laboratory work, supplemented by lectures, text-books, and reference readings. Laboratory methods are regarded as peculiarly suited to the subjects of the course and to the needs of those who pursue them. The effort throughout is to teach technical principles and practices in the light of the most profound truths known to science. The College takes a high position in regard to the standing of the subject and the needs of the students. Reference readings are almost constantly prescribed in standard volumes and periodicals with which the library is liberally supplied. For purposes of illustration liberal use is made of experimental fields, live stock, buildings, and apparatus, as well as of the University grounds and cabinet collections.
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