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organized have already found time to take high rank among tlie institutions 

 of our land. The number of students in attendance upon these schools is 

 between three and four thousand [4,211 in 1876], and they have furnislied 

 juore than sixteen hundred graduates to the active occui)ations of life. They 

 are generally gathering around themselves material appliances in the form of 

 farms, stock, workshops, machinery, books, and apparatus. * * * There 

 is evidence of an honest purpose to make the studies pursued such in variety, 

 in extent, and in value as shall meet the requirements of the law to which they 

 are indebted for their endowment. Studies connected with agriculture and the 

 mechanic arts are made prominent if not paramount, and there is reason to 

 believe that by this means the taste for those brandies of knowledge has been 

 considerably increased in the Avhole community." 



REPORT OF THE FACULTY TO THE STATE BOARD OF AGRI- 

 CULTURE. 



The Faculty of the State Agricultural College respectfully submit to you 

 their annual report for tbe vear from October 1st, 1877, to September 1st, 

 1878. 



COMMENCEMENT OF CLASS OF 1877. 



The College term which was in session at the writing of last year's report, 

 closed November 20th, with the commencement exercises of the class. The 

 accompanying exercises were the Baccalaureate sermon on Sunday the 18th, 

 the class day exercises on the evening preceding commencement day, and the 

 President's Reception. The music for the occasion was furnished by the Hay- 

 den Quintette Club of Detroit. The class motto was "Resolve and Conquer," 

 and the programme was as follows : 



PROGRAMME. 



Music. 



Quintett — Grand march from Le Prophet, Meyerbeer. 



Prayer. 



"Moliii Solo — Lombardi Fantasia Brilliante, Singler. 



The Signs we Hang Out, . ... Charles Bloodgood, ('assopolis. 



The Truth-Seeker's Authority, .... Albert Dodge, Jackson. 



What's His Business? Charles Sanford Emery, Lansing. 



Piano Solo— Concerto in Bb, Mozart. 



Self Made, William Oliver Fritz, Pompeii. 



Training to Think, Charles Irving Goodwin, Ionia. 



Inducements to the Study of Science, . . Mason Wilbur Gray, Pontiac. 



Flute Solo— Ballad, Terschak. 



Political Training, Edson Hale Hunt, Saranac. 



The Possibilities of Michigan Agriculture, . . *Frank Stewart Kedzie, Lansing. 



Culture and Agriculture, William Carroll Latta, Legonier, Iiid. 



Humbugs, Lyman Augustus Lilly, Allegan. 



Quintette — Sj'mphonia in Eb, 1st movement, Hayden. 



The Unsolved Problem, Arthur Bradley Peebles, Mason. 



The Winners in the Contest, .... James Albert Porter, West Ogden. 



A Use for the Beautiful, John Adelbert Poucher, Morenci. 



Violin Duet — Swiss air with variations. 



* Excused on account of illness. 



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