246 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Sec. 8. The trustees shall appoint such directors, profes- 

 sors, lecturers and teachers in the college, and emplo}^ such 

 other persons therein from time to time, as the means at their 

 command may permit for the accomplishment of the objects 

 enumerated and described in the fourth section of the act of 

 congress. Every officer and every person employed shall 

 hold his office or employment at the pleasure of the trustees. 

 They shall, as soon as may be, arrange and make known the 

 several courses of instruction which they will undertake at 

 the outset of the college, and shall enlarge and improve the 

 same whenever practicable, subject to the limitations pre- 

 scribed by congress. They shall also establish the qualifica- 

 tions for admission, and modify the same, as circumstances 

 may require. But no student shall be admitted into or con- 

 tinued in the college, nor shall any person be employed in any 

 office or service, who is not of good moral character and pure 

 life. 



Sec. 9. In addition to the instruction which is to be given 

 by classes, text books, lectures and apparatus, in such branches 

 of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, 

 the trustees shall provide, as fully as may be for practical ex- 

 periments and demonstrations of scientific principles and rules. 

 They shall encourage, and for due proportions of time, at dif- 

 ferent seasons of the year, and with reference to other exer- 

 cises, require all the students to engage in actual labor upon 

 the lands and in the workshops with which the college may 

 be furnished, and shall provide suitable oversight and direc- 

 tion in such labor, so that they may become habituated to 

 skilful and productive industry. 



Sec. 10. Military tactics shall be taught, during some 

 suitable part of each year, to all the students ; and they shall 

 be required to form and maintain such habits of obedience 

 and subordination, as may be useful to them, if called into 

 military service. The adjutant general shall be authorized 

 to furnish to the college, for military drill, such arms and 

 equipments, not needed by the state for other service, as may 



