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MISSISSIPPI.

Professor Hilgard—Our scrip was only issued a short time ago, and has just been sold. The scrip has been divided between the white and colored universities. The University of Mississippi, which is to be continued, has been allowed two-fifths of the agricultural fund, while three fifths is to go to the Colored University. I was requested to learn as much as possible by the Board of Trustees, and especially in regard to the labor question, about which we have been a good deal exercised—I think unnecessarily. I think at the present time it would not be at all difficult at the South to get as much labor as would be desirable for "the purpose of illustrating the principal portion of the course in which the student may be at the time. There is one difficulty, however, which I perceive is not very much insisted upon by the gentleman who first spoke ; that is, that of government. Most of the gentlemen have spoken on the supposition that the students were located in dormitories. We have about come to the conclusion that the dormitory system was impracticable, and intend to abolish dormitories, or introduce military discipline. It is proposed by our trustees to have the agricultural students remain in the dormitories while the other students are free to go where they please. I would inquire whether any such separation of the two classes has been introduced anywhere else, and especially in the University of Michigan, which has had the largest experience ? It seems to me injudicious, but it is likely to prevail, and I should be happy to have any suggestion on the subject. I believe any such distinction between the students would be injudicious and unnecessary, to say the least.

ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY.

The Chairman—In regard to the questions that have come up, they have all been,interesting to us because we have had the experience that has touched on them. We have recognized the fact that the grant itself is designed not for agriculture alone, but for all scientific education, and especially scientific as applied to all the arts. So we proposed the organization from the outset, not only of an agricultural college, but a mechanical college, and we have now several distinct courses, all of them looking to certain recognized professions and pursuits in life. W e have two courses in the Agricultural College, a course of Agricul ture and a course of Horticulture: the Agriculture embracing two branches, plant husbandry and animal husbandry; and Horticulture, embracing not only ordinary garden culture, but nursery work, orchard