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taught and understood are not the same in every institution. 

 In the State College the illustrations and applications relate 

 to agriculture. The same is true of botany, and should be 

 true of every department of science. 



This is the only justifiable mode of teaching sciences in an 

 ao-ricultural college. This mode is none the less serviceable 

 to those who are not to be farmers. There is no better way 

 of understanding the sciences than by the illustrations and 

 applications taken from the field. Those who are thus 

 taught, whether their future employment is in the field, or 

 shop, or ofiice, cannot fail to be interested in agriculture, 

 and may be expected to co-operate with farmers in devising 

 better methods of developing the productive industries of 

 the field. 



But scientific training is not sufficient to form the true 

 man, nor the wise leader of others. That one may wisely 

 forecast the future, he must study the past. History prop- 

 erly finds its place in our curriculum. Every young man 

 entering upon active life should know the social forces acting 

 about him. Civil polity, political economy and kindred 

 studies should not be disregarded in any college course. 

 Every graduate should have knowledge of his own mental 

 and moral powers, and the laws of their proper exercise. 

 Hence studies that lead to this knowledge are wisely incor- 

 porated into the course of the college. 



In the modern discussions respecting the value of scien- 

 tific studies, the necessity of literary culture is too often 

 overlooked or denied. No course of study is liberal from 

 which is excluded that culture which is the result of the 

 patient study of language and literature. This college ex- 

 cludes an extended course in the study of the ancient classics, 

 hence the greater the necessity of providing other means of 

 literary culture. Here, if nowhere else, the English lan- 

 guage, both in its spoken and written forms, should be 

 thoroughly studied. Because of their aid in a knowledge 

 of the English language, and their help in its use, Latin, 

 to some extent, French and German, should be patiently 

 studied. There are many other evident reasons for the 

 study of these languages at this college which it is un- 

 necessary to mention. The thorough work which has been 



