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Caption: Course Catalog - 1896-1897
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124 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF COURSES Winter term, full study. Professor DAVEN- Stations or elsewhere. PORT. Required: Agriculture 2, 4, 6. 9. DAIRYING.—Studies and practice on milk and its manipulations, including testing, separating, creaming, churning, etc., together with care of surroundings and the elements of successful manufacture of dairy products. Winter term, full study. Mr. FRASER. 10. INVESTIGATION AND THESIS.—There is required for graduation two terms of original investigation, the results and methods of which are to be embodied in the form of an acceptable thesis. The student may choose his subject along the line of any of the required studies of the course. The selection should be made before the opening term of the last year. 11. BUTTER MAKING.—Operation of, and studies in efficiency of, different separators in comparison with gravity methods of creaming under a variety of conditions. Influence of character of milk and its handling upon the quality of butter. Different methods of ripening cream and the effect upon churning and upon butter, together with extended practice in the manufacture and in scoring of butter. Sfring term, full study. Mr. FRASER. Required: Agriculture 9. COURSES FOR GRADUATES 101. BREEDING.—Variation and heredity, their nature and phenomena as influenced by selection, environment, and use, with special reference to improvement of domestic animals. 102. PHYSIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY AND THE NATURE OF FOOD.—A study of the functional activities of the animal body and the end products of their metabolism, as a basis for economical feeding. 103. COMPARATIVE AGRICULTURE.—The principles and practices of agriculture as influenced by soil, climate, tradition or the political, social, or religious condition of men. ANTHROPOLOGY 1. This course, in general anthropology, begins with a study of the physical and psychical elements of ethnography. Theories as to the origin of man are discussed, and the various races of mankind are distinguished and described. Special attention is given to the historical and comparative study of customs, ceremonies, and rights, beliefs, and folklore of primitive peoples with reference to the common characteristics and fundamental instincts of mankind and to the origin and growth
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