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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1890
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188 UNIVERSITY O F ILLINOIS. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE. FACULTY AND INSTRUCTORS. S E L I M H. PEABODY, P H . D., LL. I>., R E G E N T . GEORGE E. MORROW, A. M., Dean, Agriculture. THOMAS J. B U R R I L L , P H . D., Botany and Horticulture. SAMUEL W. SHATTUCK, C. E., Mathematics. E D W A R D SNYDER, A. M., Modern Languages. J A M E S D. CRAWFORD, A. M., History. P E T E R ROOS, Industrial Art. S T E P H E N A. FORBES, P H . I)., Zoology and Entomology. J A M E S H. B R O W N L E E , A. M., Rhetoric and Oratory. A R T H U R W. P A L M E R , SC. D., Chemistry. DONAJLD ,MCINTOSH, V. S., Veterinary Science. CHARLES W. R O L F E , M. S., Geology. N A T H A N I E L B U T L E R , J R . , A. M., English Language and L i t e r a t u r e . C U R T I S B. H O P P I N , L t . IT. S. A., Military Science. GEORGE W. P A R K E R , Wood-work. ADMISSION. Candidates for admission t o the College of Agriculture must be a t least fifteen years of age, and must pass satisfactory examinations in the common school branches and in the studies of the preliminary year. While by law students may be admitted a t fifteen years of age, in general, it is much better t h a t 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. OBJECT O F T H E COLLEGE. The aim of this college is t o educate scientific agriculturists and horticulturists. The frequency with which this aim is misunderstood, 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 a t the notion of sending his son t o learn these from a set of scientific professors. But all this implies a gross misunderstanding of the real object of agricultural science. I t
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