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proficiency in any department, beyond what is required in the college 

 course, without neglecting the required duties, will, on examination, be 

 entitled to a special diploma in that department. 



Persons not proposing to graduate may enter at any time and select 

 any two studies which they are fitted to pursue, and attend any lectures 

 of the course. Such students must conform to all the college regulations 

 binding upon students of the regular course. 



The laboratory and field practice will be under the direction of the 

 professors of the several departments, and will be carried on for the 

 purpose of instruction alone. No natural science can be learned by the 

 mere study of books. There must be work in the laboratory, in the 

 cabinet and in the field. This principle now recognized in most of our 

 colleges and scientific schools, will be made prominent in all the depart- 

 ments of this College. A well cultivated farm will at all times furnish 

 illustrations in Agriculture. A botanic garden, with green-house, 

 graperies and propagating houses will be an invaluable aid in the study 

 of Botany and Horticulture. 



College Buildings. 



A college must have recitation and lecture rooms convenient for the 

 purposes of instruction, and when a college is fully organized no small 

 amount of accommodation is required for cabinets, library and other 

 appliances required in giving a thorough education. Some provision 

 must also be made for rooms and board for students. When students 

 can be accommodated in families, that is the best that can be done for 

 them. But this method of rooming and boarding is always expensive, 

 and if an Agricultural College is situated so as to have a. large farm 

 connected with it, there will seldom be found families enough within a 

 reasonable distance to furnish rooms and board for students at such 

 prices as they can afford to pay. Certainly, as this College is located, 

 there seems to be an imperative demand that some provision should be 

 made for the students, both on the score of convenience and economy. 

 Because students are better off in families than in any other place, it 

 does not follow that they are better off distributedin small club houses 

 where there are no families, than*they are in a college building of the 

 ordinary kind. The Trustees must furnish the best accommodation 

 possible with the means at their command. 



In the plan adopted they have contracted for such buildings as will 

 always be needed for the College. And while these buildings are by 

 no means all that will ultimately be required for the greatest efficiency 

 of the institution, they will be sufficient for its accommodation, until it 

 shall be better known than it now is, exactly what is needed, and until 



