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a boy could enter one of our advanced classes. He might 

 be able to enter our Junior class. Beginning with the Senior 

 year we give three elective courses, one in agriculture, one in 

 horticulture, and one in general science. The one in agri- 

 culture is calculated to fit a man to go back to the farm and 

 make general farming successful, the other is to educate him 

 with a view to fruit growing and to make him successful in 

 that, and the general science course is to enable him to go 

 on, to prepare him to go into experiment work, for work 

 in the Department of Agriculture in Washington, for teach- 

 ing, or for any of the higher scientific activities. Suppose he 

 came to us at the beginning of our Senior year. He might 

 choose the specialty that fitted him best, and he could go on 

 from that. We propose to lay out in our catalogue courses 

 starting with our Junior year and leading up to the degree of 

 Bachelor of Science. 



We recognize clearly that our institution is the same as all 

 these colleges are, a combination of the agricultural high 

 school and of the agricultural college. 



Our degree. Bachelor of Agriculture, is not altogether a 

 happy one, but so long as we keep that it will stand in part 

 for agricultural high school work and in part for college work. 

 On top of that we propose to ^ive two years more of thor- 

 ough-going college grade instruction in agriculture, which 

 will compare favorably with the Bachelor of Science courses 

 given anywhere in this country. 



We think that these are modifications which will do very 

 much to make the college more profitable to the farmer. 



Furthermore, I have already directed your attention to 

 the circulars which will show our short courses. I think 

 these are calculated to increase the number of students — the 

 number of students certainly in those courses. 



I am not sure that any other modifications of the courses 

 would be calculated to ensure better results in our educa- 

 tional development, but we are willing to gain light and to 



