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the College shall be shown to be worthy of the patronage and support 

 of the public. 



The following buildings are already contracted for at the prices 

 named, the work to be completed by the first of August of the present 

 year. 



1. A dormitory 100x50 feet, four stories high. The three upper 

 stories of this building will afford ample rooms for forty-eight students, 

 leaving the entire lower story for recitation rooms, a cabinet and library 

 room. Whenever a building shall be erected giving more ample accom- 

 modations for lectures, recitation^, cabinets and libraries, this lower 

 story can readily be used for students' rooms. The cost of this building, 

 according to contract, is to be $30,000. 



2. A laboratory 46X57 feet, two stories high. The lower story con- 

 tains a room for chemical analysis, with furnace room, apparatus room, 

 and balance room attached. The upper story contains furnace room, 

 three appai'atus rooms, and a large lecture room which can also be used 

 as a chapel. Cost, $9,350. 



3. A boarding house, where board can be furnished for fifty students. 

 Students will board wherever they choose, but this house is built for the 

 purpose of securing to such as desire it, board at cost within a convenient 

 distance to the College. Cost of the building $5,050. 



It is estimated that $46,000 will cover the entire cost of these buildings 

 and such out-buildings as are required for them. 



This will leave $33,429.34 of the building fund for repairing the 

 buildings now on the farm, erecting new farm buildings and a president's 

 house. 



Instruction. 



Some account has already been given of the proposed method of 

 giving instruction in the special course. 



In the regular course, the College must commence with a single class 

 and at first will have no need of a full corps of instructors. The 

 instruction in chemistry and natural history for the first year will be 

 given by the president. For the other departments ample provision 

 will be made before the opening of the collegiate year. 



The Hon. Levi Stockbridge has been elected Farm Superintendent, 

 and will enter upon the duties of his office the coming spring. The 

 farm will then, as soon as possible, be brought into a state fitting it for 

 the purposes of instruction in practical agriculture. In addition to such 

 field work as may be required under the direction of the several profes- 

 sors for the purpose of instruction, those students who choose to employ 

 a portion of their time on the farm will be encouraged to do so under 

 the direction of the Farm Superintendent. For such labor a fair com- 



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