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poration, "to teach, in the most tJwrough manner, such branches of learning as are related to Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, and Military Tactics, without excluding other scientific and classical studies." The hope of the Trustees and Faculty is that the Institution will produce scholars of sound learning, of practical sense and skill—fitted to be leaders, if need be, in those industrial interests on which the social well-being and civilization of our country so much depend. It is also their aim and hope that the University shall contribute to the increase and diffusion of real science, and especially of that science which bears upon and promotes the useful arts. DEPARTMENTS OP STUDY. The following new and enlarged statement of the Departments of Study and Instruction, has been prepared to prevent the injurious misapprehensions which are stated to have grown, in some instances, out of former enumerations of studies. Classes are already at work in most of these Departments and will be organized in the others when the wants of students shall require it. Special prominence is given to those "branches of learning related to Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts," but entire liberty is allowed to each student to select such studies as he may be prepared to pursue. The University is designed more especially for young men who have already attained such age that they may properly claim to be the judges of their own wants. It is not thought useful or right to attempt to urge every student, without regard to his capacity, tastes, or practical wants, through some fixed "course of studies." While opportunities are freely provided for a thorough and full mastery of each branch of useful learning, the student is exhorted to study carefully his own capacity and needs ; to choose, with serious and independent consideration, the branches which will best fit him for his chosen work, and to pursue them to such extent as he may be able. It is expected that each student will pursue studies in three or more departments at the same time, in order to employ his time fully. But, on special request, he may give his whole time to any one department, if the studies and practice in that department will afford him full employment.