1883,] THE STORRS AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL. 25 



Some of you may be interested to know the number of hours 

 devoted to labor and study. Our daily programme at present is 

 as follows: 



Breakfast, . . . ' . 



For the Senior Class — Farm Work, 



For the Junior Class — Recitations and Lectures, 



Dinner, ....... 



For the Senior Class — Recitations and Lectures, 

 For the Junior Class — Farm Work, 

 Supper, ....... 



The time from 7 to 9 each evening, except Saturday, is devoted 

 to preparation for the next day's recitations. Between those hours 

 all students are required to be quiet and to be occupied with their 

 books and notes. It has not been found necessary to assemble 

 them in afty one place for this purpose. Indeed, we have no 

 " school room," in the ordinary sense. The lectures and recita- 

 tions during the day-time are mostly held in the laboratories, and 

 during the evening study-hours the students are distributed about 

 among these and other rooms, a few in a place, and the preserva- 

 tion of quiet and order is left mainly to their own sense of honor 

 and desire for study and improvement. In fact, both in this and 

 other matters, we aim to have as few rules as may be and to trust 

 as much as possible to the manliness and good sense of the young 

 men; and it is due to them to say that they have, with scarcely 

 an exception, responded readily and heartily to the appeal to their 

 honor, and have shown a most commendable deg.ree of interest in 

 and devotion to their work, and one which has rendered the task 

 of government of the lightest character. 



I might add other details of the studies pursued or of the con- 

 duct of the School, but if I have said enough to give you a fair 

 idea of what sort of a school we have in Mansfield, anything more 

 would be a superfluous trial of your patience. If I have passed 

 over any points on which you desire information, I trust that you 

 will not be backward in calling for it. Indeed, your Secretary 

 intimated pretty plainly to me when he asked me to come here that 

 my remarks were to be simply a sort of entering wedge, and that 

 the larger part of my duty was to serve as a target for questions. 

 The time was when I was in the daily habit of answering (or 

 trying to answer) questions, though the questioner was usually 



