AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 523 



COURSE OF STUDY. 



The general plan and object of the course of study were 

 fully explained in our report of last year. From the four 

 years' course at this college, Greek is excluded. Provision 

 is made for the teaching of Latin one year. Thus a larger 

 proportion of the four years than can be given in the regular 

 course of the older colleges, is given to the study of the 

 English language, the modern languages, and the natural 

 sciences. In this college, as in the older colleges, the upper 

 classes give due attention to those studies that lead one to a 

 knowledge of himself and of his relations to his fellow-men 

 and to God. Mental philosophy, political economy, history^ 

 civil polity, with special reference to our own government, and 

 moral philosophy, arc now an important part of the course. 

 The act in accordance with which the college was founded, 

 requires the "support and maintenance" of a "college 

 where the leading object shall be, without excluding scien- 

 tific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to 

 teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture 

 and the mechanic arts in such manner as the legislatures of 

 the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote 

 the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in 

 the several pursuits and professions of life." Hence in this 

 college the sciences are to be taught in their relations to 

 agriculture and in their applications to the mechanic arts. 

 Military tactics, in accordance with the act l\)unding the 

 college, are also taught by a military officer, who is a gradu-^ 

 ate of West Point, and who, for the purpose of teaching, is 

 detailed from the army of the L'nitod States. "While the 

 course thus tends to develop physical, intellectual and moral 

 manhood, it has special relations to agriculture, furnishing 

 special opportunities to those who wish to engage in horti- 

 culture, or in other departments of field work. There is 

 no other institution in New England furnishing equal oppor- 

 tunities for practical instruction in the several departments of 

 field and hot-house work. 



A plain, substantial, but inexpensive building is needed 

 for the agricultural department. This should be conveniently 

 arranged for purposes of instruction, and with ample means 



