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Caption: Course Catalog - 1877-1878 Version B
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College of Agriculture. 13 COLLEGE OP AGRICULTURE. FACULTY. THE REGENT, PROFESSOR SHATTUCK, PROFESSOR PROFESSOR TAFT, WEBER, PROFESSOR MORROW, Dean. PROFESSOR BURRILL, DOCTOR F. W. PRENTICE, C. I. HAYS, M. A. SCOVELL. SCHOOL OF HORTICULTURE. SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE. ADMISSION. Candidates for admission to the College of Agriculture must be at least fifteen years of age, and must pass satisfactory examinations in the common school branches, and in the studies of the preliminary year (See page 12). 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. It 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 AGRICULTURE. OBJECT OF THE SCHOOL. The aim of this school is to educate- scientific agriculturists. 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 at the notion of sending his son to learn these from a set of scientific professors. But all this implies a gross misunderstanding of the real object of agricultural science. It is not simply to teach how to plow, but the reason for plowing at all—to teach the composition and nature of soils, the philosophy of plowing, of manures, and the adaptation of the different soils to different crops and cultures. It is not simply to teach how to feed, but to show the composition, action and value of the several kinds of food, and the laws of feeding, fattening, and healthful growth. In short, it is the aim of the true Agricultural College to enable the student to understand thoroughly, all
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