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Caption: Course Catalog - 1883-1884
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SPECIAL FACULTY, THE REGENT. PROFESSOR MORROW, Dean, PROFESSOR BURR1LL, PROFESSOR PRENTICE, PROFESSOR MCMDRTRIE, PROFESSOR JILLSON. ADMISSION. j ANDIDATES for admission to 1 hf> College of Agriculture must be I at least fifteen years of age, and must pass satisfactory examinaV J tions in t'le 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. OBJECT OF THE COLLEGE. The aim of this College is to 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 th idea of teaching these arts in a college. The practical farmer who has sj ent 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 reaso 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 cror/.s and < ultures. It is not simply to teach how to feed, but to show the composition, action, and value of the several kind 3 of food and the laws of feeding, fattening, and healthful growth. In short, it is the aim of the 1run Agricultural College to enable the student co understand thoroughly all that
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