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how will he labor ? He will devote his three hours to labor on 

 the farm. lie will carry on the precise labor, during his entire 

 course, that he will have to carry on in actual life, after he leaves 

 the institution. So that, in addition to the liberal culture there 

 acquired, there is something of professional training which a 

 young man can hardly fail to acquire in pursuing this course. 



It has been my pleasure to be connected with the college from 

 its commencement. I know the "objections that have been made 

 to it ; I know the discouragements through which we have been 

 obnged to pass ; I know what are our hopes for the future ; and I 

 am happy to say that we are greatly encouraged, and are looking 

 confidently forward to the time when the claims, the wants and the 

 necessities of the young men of our State shall be more fully 

 recognized, and when this institution shall be able to do for the 

 young men of the State that which they so imperatively need, — a 

 want which I know the members of the Board of Agriculture fully 

 recognize and which I believe the people of this State are fast 

 coming to recognize. 



Mr. Parkhuest of Aroostook. Let me inquire the expense con- 

 nected with attendance. 



Prof. Fernald. Tuition is free. The board has been three 

 dollars a week, there has been no charge hitherto for room rent, 

 and each room has been provided with a bedstead, a husk mat- 

 trass, a table, a sink, and four chairs, without charge to the 

 student. Two students occupy a room. The charge for washing 

 and fuel has been fifty cents a week, making the whole charge 

 $3.50 a week. Besides this, the student has to furnish himself 

 with books, usually ranging in cost from ten to fifteen dollars a 

 year. The incidental expenses have been from fifty cents to a 

 dollar and a half per term. These include all the expenses, so far 

 as they occur to me at the present time. At any rate, the other 

 expenses would depend upon the habits of the student himself. 

 On the other hand, each student labors three hours a day, for 

 which he receives compensation. When the institution went into 

 operation, the proposition was to pay twenty-five cents for the' 

 three hours' labor. It was not designed that it should be precisely 

 twenty-five cents for the three hours' labor, but that the compen- 

 sation should depend upon the faithfulness and efficiency of the 

 student, greater stress being placed upon the faithfulness than 

 upon the efficiency. That is, the aim was to encourage faithful- 

 ness in the boys ; so that, although the work is in charge of a 



