DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 



The scheme for the autumn term, commencing September 3d, will be : 



AUTUMN TER3I. 



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Each class has had weekly meetings for rhetorical exercises in charge of 

 some officer. Further accounts of the institution will be found in the reports 

 of the several officers. 



VETERINARY. 



Among the subjects named in the law of the State to be embraced in the 

 College course of study, is the Veterinary art. Instruction has been given in it 

 to a limited extent by the professor of Practical Agriculture. But the faculty 

 are of the opinion that the College should begin at once to enlarge its instruc- 

 tion in this branch. A committee of the faculty appointed last spring to con- 

 sider the subject, after reporting in favor of a hospital, and a professor who 

 should lecture one term to the students of some class, who should be required 

 to attend, and one additional term to those Avho should take the study as an 

 elective, recommended as the least that we should request of the Board, the 

 employment of an instructor of acknowledged qualifications in Veterinary, to 

 give lectures during the summer term of each of the years 1S79 and 1880, 

 and that if possible the engagement cover a week of institute work in the win- 

 ter. The faculty request of the Board the engagement of a lecturer for at 

 least one term in each year. 



LIBRARIAN. 



The duties of the professor of English Literature, — the present librarian, — 

 are very onerous, owing to the drill given to students in con)position 

 and orations; and to the necessity of giving instruction in studies witli- 

 out as well as within the range of his own department. Neither he nor 

 any other officer, has time to give to the Library the attention it needs. Dur- 

 ing the next term, in as even a division of labor as can well be made among 



