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31 COLLEGE OF A G R I C U L T U R E .

FACULTY.

T H E REGENT, PROFESSOR BURRILL, PROFESSOR PROFESSOR

MORROW, TAFT,

PROFESSOR SHATTUCK,

PROFESSOR

DOCTOR F. W. PRENTICE,

WEBER,

C. I. HAYS.

SCHOOLS.

SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE,

SCHOOL OF HORTICULTURE. ADMISSION.

Candidates for admission to the College of Agriculture must be at least fifteen years of age, and must pass satisfactory examination in the common school branches and in the studies of the preliminary year (see page 30.) While, by law, students may be admitted at fifteen years of age, in general it is much better that they shall be eighteen or twenty. I t will be well if candidates shall have pursued other studies, besides those required for admission. The better the preparation the more profitable the course.

SCHOOL OF A G R I C U L T U R E .

OBJECT OF T H E SCHOOL.

The aim of this school is to educate scientific agriculturists. The frequency with which this aim is misunderstood by the community at large, demands that it shall be fully explained. Many, who look upon agriculture as consisting merely in the manual work of plowing, planting, cultivating and harvesting, and in the care of stock, justly ridicule the idea of teaching these arts in a college. The practical farmer who has spent his life in farm labors, laughs at the notion of sending his son to learn these from a set of scientific professors. But all of this implies a gross misunderstanding of the real object of agricultural science. I t is not gimply to teach how to plow, but the reason for plowing at all—to teach the composition and nature of