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Caption: Course Catalog - 1878-1879
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COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE. SPECIAL FACUtTY. PROFESSOR PROFESSOR THE REGENT, DOCTOR F.W. PRENTICE, MORROW, Dean. C. I. HAYS, BURRILL, M. A. SCOVELL. SCIXOOXJS. 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 examinations in the common school branches, and in the studies of the preliminary year. 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. Some knowledge of the Latin Language will especially aid in the Scientific Studies. 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
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