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the estate, and with sufficient head to throw it over the high- 

 est building, which gives such security that it should lessen 

 the cost of fire insurance. 



The distance from building to building, which the students 

 are obliged to walk to their various exercises and to their 

 meals, has always made the matter of walks of great conse- 

 quence ; and much pains has been taken to construct and 

 keep them in repair with gravel. But in wet weather, and 

 in the spring and fall, the sinking of the gravel to the clay 

 has made them any tiling but desirable, and a source of 

 great annoyance in consequence of the mud which was 

 unavoidably carried to the halls and rooms. To obviate the 

 difficulty, a contract was made to supply gravel from the 

 knoll south of the president's house, to construct tarred 

 walks in the village, compensation being made by laying 

 such walks around the college buildings. The amount of 

 gravel thus taken has been sufficient to construct this year 

 an eight-foot walk from south to north college and the 

 laboratory, and from the main entrances of the buildings 

 to the travelled road, thence over the worst ground to the 

 boarding-house. They are found to be a source of great 

 convenience, of cleanliness, and a marked improvement to 

 the general appearance of the grounds. 



COLLEGE FAEM. 



On the abolition of the office of farm superintendent, in 

 consequence of straitened financial circumstances, its duties 

 practically devolved upon the professor of agriculture. But 

 the subsequent election of that officer to the presidency has 

 made it utterly impossible for him to give a personal super- 

 vision to the details of farm-work, or to have more than a 

 general care of its business affairs. All details and much 

 specific business have been committed to Mr. Henry Tillson 

 as farm foreman, who with his family has occupied the farm- 

 house, and boarded the persons employed as teamsters. Mr. 

 Tillson has taken great interest in his work, and discharged 

 his delicate and arduous duties in the care of the farm, its 

 labor, stock, crops, and general property, with gratifying 

 success. 



For the reasons above stated, Mr. John W. Clark, a grad- 

 uate of the college, who for two or three years has been 



