Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1870
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79 I. AGRICULTURAL COURSE. Prof. Bliss has charge of two classes in Agriculture, numbering 5 in the Advanced Class, upon Soils, their origin and properties, and 15 in Elementary Study. Prof. Bliss has charge, also, of the farm. Prof. Stewart has two classes in Chemistry, of 16 members each, with 20 students in the Laboratory. Prof. Burrill has two classes in Botany, of 20 and 10 respectively. II. NATURAL AND MECHANICAL PHILOSOPHY. Prof. Robinson, assisted by Prof. Burrill and Mr. Bellangee, has charge of one class in Natural Philosophy, of 11 members; three classes in Mechanical Drawing, numbering 25; one class in Descriptive Geometry, numbering 7. Prof. Robinson has also charge of the shops. III. MILITARY TACTICS, AND COMMERCIAL SCIENCE. Prof. Snyder has a class of 18 in Military Tactics; 39 in Book-keeping, and 4 in Banking. IV. NATURAL HISTORY. Instruction given by Prof. Tenney, by lectures. V. PURE MATHEMATICS, AND CIVIL ENGINEERING. Prof. Robinson has two classes in Algebra, of 25 and 23, respectively. Prof. Shattuck has a class of 4 in Civil Engineering; two classes in Geometry. Students in Agricultural Department taking the first five books of Da vies' Legendre, number 26; 16 form the class now studying Spherical Ge ometry; a class of 10 is engaged upon Analytical Geometry, and one of 2 upon Calculus. VI. ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITEBATURE. Two classes under Prof. Baker, numbering 54 and 9, respectively. VII. FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. The Regent has a class of 9, and Prof. Bliss a class of 5 members. VIII. GERMAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. Two classes under Prof. Snyder, 47 in both. IX. LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. Prof. Baker has one class of 5 in Horace, and Mr. Douglass has a class in Sallust of 4; a class in Caesar of 9; a class in Latin Reader of 10; 28 in all. X. ©REEK LANGUAGE. No class. The young men seem to be very earnest in their work, manly in their deportment, self-reliant, and some of them enthusiasts in their departments. The Professors are evidently working under some embarrasments, through the multiplicity of duties, which the limited funds of the Institution have
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