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DEPARTMENTS AND COLLEGES.

Heretofore the courses of instruction have been exhibited only under the headings of the several Departments. It is found desirable, in order to afford a clearer view of the actual work of the University, to add the subdivisions into Colleges. This implies no change in the character or plaii of the University, but only the adoption of a usage now common in the American universities, to exhibit more impressively the several courses of studies. A Department embraces a single branch of study, taught usually by a single professor, and his assistants, as the Department of English Literature, or of Mathematics. A College includes a combined course, made up of the several branches needful for some one calling or profession. Thus in the older universities there were Medical Colleges and Law Schools, and in the new Industrial or Polytechnic universities, are found Colleges of Agriculture, of Engi. neering, of Mechanical Science, etc. Under the following several Departments will be found an exhibit of the nature and extent of the instruction afforded in each of the several branches of learning taught in the University. The student may learn from this the character of any branch and the time necessary to com* plete it. Under the head of the several Colleges he will find marked out the course of studies needful tofithim for his chosen profession or pursuit. These studies are the same as those shown under the heads of the Departments, but each College embraces studies from several departments, taken not in full, but to such extent as the practical aim of the college course may require. It is expected that each student will enroll himself in one of the colleges, though he may vary from the course of studies prescribed. The courses of studies, both in the Departments and Colleges, are subdivided according to terms and years to meet the necessities of class teaching. The student is at liberty to'take as many or as few of these terms of any particular study as his needs may require, or his time will allow, but the full course marked out will be found necessary to a complete mastery of the subject.

DEPARTMENTS OF STUDY.

AGRICULTURE

This Department embraces a thorough course of instruction in the theory and practice of land culture and cropping in its several varieties; Animal Husbandry, including stock and dairy farming; Sheep and Swine husbandry and the principles of stock breeding. It includes also the principles of the amelioration of soil, veterinary science, and the general management of farming estates. For ,i statement of the full course of sciences involved'in Agriculture see the article headed '• College of Agriculture." The following presents a full course in this department: —3