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of production> consumption and markets; real estate juris* prudence, the laws regulating the tenures and transfers of land, and the laws relating to rural affairs; the history of agriculture, and general views of the husbandry of foreign countries. To these studies should be added, either to prepare for the foreging, or as necessary to complete education, courses in mathematics, language and literature, mental and moral philosophy It gic, history and science of government, " The instruction should be partly by textbooks, and partly by lectures, enforced by observation and practice in the laboratory, and the various departments of the experimental farm. " 2 . The course of instruction in horticulture may comprehend most of the studies already described under the course of agriculture, omitting stock-breeding and veterinary art, and adding to the fruit-growing, the culture of the small fruits and culinary vegetables, and the culture of flowers; the construction and mangagement of the hot-bed, the green-house, the grapery, the seedplot and nursery; landscape gardening, the laying out and ornamentation of public and private pleasure grounds, parks, cemeteries, etc. The methods of instruction should be like those in the department of agriculture. ' !j 3. The courses in mechanics, civil engineering and mining belong, properly, to the polytechnic school. All the fundamental sciences involved in them being taught at the University, these courses may also be developed there. The committee defer the delineation of a course of instruction in this department till the question of the extent of its means of development is settled." 17 For permission to enter on the work of these regular courses the committee recommended in the report that a fair standard of admission requirements be insisted upon. While it was desired to open the university as widely as possible to the youth of the state, it could not do the work of the public high schools. Grammar, geography, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, natural philosophy, and a knowledge of Latin sufficient to enable a student to construe any passage in Cicero's Orations or Vergil's Georgics and Aeneid, was, in the opinion of the committee, a cor"First annual report of the board of trustees, 47.