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25 Also, a School of Commerce, a School of Military Science, and a School of Domestic Science and Arts. Under the head of the several colleges and schools, the student will find marked out the course of studies selected to fit him for his chosen pursuit. A completion of one of these courses, or of the equivalents allowed in it, will be required to entitle the student to graduate. A student desiring to pursue any given branch of study further than is provided for in the courses in the schools, will find a statement of the extent and course of instruction given in such branch under the head of the proper department of study.

COLLEGE OF AGBICULTUBE.

FACULTY. T H E KEGKENT. D R . MANLY M I L E S , Professor of Agriculture. T. J. B U R R I L L , Professor of Horticulture and Botany. A. P. S. STUART, Professor of Chemistry. S. W. SHATTUCK, Professor of Agricultural Engineering.

D. C. TAFT, Professor of Geology and Zoology. B R . H. J. D E T M E R , Lecturer on Veterinary Science, HON. W. C. FLAaa, Superintendent of Agricultural Experiments.

ADMISSION.

Candidates for admission to the College of Agriculture must be at least fifteen years of age, of good moral character, and able to sustain a satisfactory examination in the following branches: 1st. I N ENGLISH GRAMMAR—In the formation of words, the parts of speech, properties of nouns and pronouns, the declensions, conjugations, etc., and in the analysis and syntax of sentences and use of modifying words and connectives. 2d. I N GEOGRAPHY—Form, size, motions and circular division of the earth; latitude, longitude and zones; the continents and their,grand divisions; countries and capitals of Europe and America; mountain systems and chief rivers and lakes of Europe and America, boundaries, capitals, chief town§, great railroads and canals, of the States of the Union. 3d. ARITHMETIC—Decimal system of notation and numeration, the four grand rules or operations, with clear explanations of processes, rea—3