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they, with their half dozen professors, do the work which fourteen first 

 class scientific men are required to do, in addition to teaching all their 

 literary studies ? No! They would only degrade industrial education 

 to the standard upon which they have heretofore looked with merited 

 contempt. The}'' might Avell compare the victims of their superficial 

 smattering with the regular students of their classical course, as illustra- 

 tions of how much better the study of Latin and Greek is for mental 

 discipline than the study of anything else." 



A thoroughly appointed and really practical Industrial College in Cali- 

 fornia, established independently as such, and possessing the facilities 

 for teaching all the best methods of manipulating and reducing the oi;e8 

 and extracting the metals, and with men at the head of each department 

 thoroughly trustworth}', who will command the confidence of capitalists 

 and business men everywhere, and who are not only capable of teaching 

 all that is known in their respective depai'tments, but who are also com- 

 petent to take the lead and make now discoveries, and improve on old 

 systems and practices, would not only secure the patronage of all our own 

 people who desire information upon the subjects taught, but it would 

 attract students and eminent and jiractical scholars and business men 

 from all parts of the world. Tbey would come here to avail themselves 

 of a practical special course in the college, preparatory to engaging in 

 profitable enterprises presented to such persons by the inexhaustible 

 riches of our mineral regions, or the attractive features of our agricultural 

 resources. Having examined and indicated the general character of the 

 Industrial College demanded by California, and having pointed out the 

 general requsites and characteristics that should be secured in its loca- 

 tion, and having shown the resources and expenses of some of the best 

 American colleges, and endeavored to prove that an Industrial College 

 of a high character would need no less resources and would be subject to 

 no less expenses, we would call attention to the professorships necessary 

 to be established and maintained to secure an institution of such a char- 

 acter. In doing so we have recourse to a full plan for organizing Indus- 

 trial Colleges, recommended by the late Dr. Pugh,who spent six years in 

 examining and studying similar institutions in Europe previous to being 

 called to the Presidency of the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania. 

 His plan in full should be attentively studied bj^ those who may be 

 intrusted with the responsibility of organizing the Industrial College of 

 California, but is too lengthy to embod}^ in this rej)ort, which is already 

 more extended than we intended it should be. 



Fint — The President: a man thoroughly versed in the Natural and 

 Physical Sciences — the responsible head of the college. 



Second — A Professor of Pure Mathematics and the Higher Mechanics 

 and Astronomy. 



Third — A Professor of Civil, Hydraulic, and Military Engineering, and 

 Applied Mathematics. 



Fourth — A Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, Mechanics, 

 and Physics. 



Fifth — A Professor of Pure and Agricultural Chemistry and Geology. 



Sixth — A Professor of Metallurgy, Mining and Mineralogy, and Chem- 

 ical Technolog3^ 



Seventh — A Professor of Anatomy, Physiology, and Yeterinary. 



Eighth — A Professor of Natural History, more particularly Zoology, 

 Comparative Anatomy, and Entomology. 



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