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officers lived in the city, three and a half miles distant, until cottages were 

 completed in the spring of 1859. 



During the years 1857, 1858, and 1859, the administration of the college 

 proceeded on the plan on which it started at the first. There were, as the law 

 directed, a summer and a winter term each year. Each term closed with a 

 public examination, to which the citizens of Lansing were accustomed to come 

 in considerable numbers. A radical change was introduced in J 860 by the 

 Hon. J. M. Gregory, and the Board, which lasted for that one year, when the 

 college was transferred to another board. 



On the first day the students, sixty-one in number, were divided for classes 

 and work into three divisions. The only catalogues for these years are manu- 

 script ones of my own making. The terms and students were as follows : 



1857. First term. May 13 to Oct. 28; total number of students 81; five 

 of these students afterwards graduated. 



Second term, Dec. 2 to Feb. 22, 1858 ; total number of students 101 ; total 

 number of students the year of both terms, 124, representing 24 counties. 



1858. The third term began April 7, 1858, and closed October 27. There 

 were 101 students, of whom 58 had been in attendance the previous year. 

 The fourth term began November 30, 1858, and closed February 23, 1859. 

 There were 86 students in the winter term, 39 of tl>eni entering for the first 

 time. In both terms there were 137 different students, representing 21 

 counties. 



1859. April 5, fifth term opened, closed August 5; August 16, sixth term 

 opened, closed November 16. In this year there were 4 Juniors, 32 Sopho- 

 mores, 48 Freshmen of the 1st division, 32 in the 2d division. Total number 

 for the year, 106, representing 26 counties. 



The changes in 1860 make me defer giving these statistics for that year. 

 Since, so far as the general affairs of the college go, these three first years 

 form a group by themselves. During the first year no regular course of study 

 was marked out. In the opening term the most advanced of the students 

 studied arithmetic, advanced algebra, and grammar. The second division 

 studied arithmetic, elementary algebra, and grammar; and the third division, 

 arithmetic, geography, and grammar. In a term or two chemistry was intro- 

 duced, and in 1858 the faculty formed and presented to the board a four 

 years' course of study. The board directed certain changes to be made, 

 especially that the course should be arranged for two and not three terms a 

 year, and that German and French, which had been proposed as electives, 

 should be left out. 



The scheme is given : 



1859. 



COURSE OF STUDY. — TWO TERMS A YEAR. 



First Year. 



First renn.— Algebra, History, Analysis. 



Second Term. — Algebra, Geometry, Physical Geography, Natural Philosophy, 

 Ehetoric. 



Second Year. 



First Term. — Geometry, Trigonometry, Chemistry, Botany, Arboriculture. 

 Second Term. — Surveying, Drawing, Analytical Chemistry, Logic, Book-Keeping. 



Third Year. 



First Term. — Mechanics, Engineering, Organic Chemistry, Ehetoric. 

 Second Term.—C\\\\ Engineering, Vegetable and Animal Physiology, English 

 Literature, — Anglo-Saxon Elective. 



