548 BOARD OF AGRICULTtTRE. 



Summer Term. 



Civil Engineering. — Practical work with instruments in measuring 

 heights and distances. Plane and topographical surveying, level- 

 ling, construction of railroad curves, embankments and excava- 

 tions, drainage, etc. 



Zoology. — Introductory lessons by means of specimens. Systems of 

 classification. The analytic study of typical forms of animal life. 



German. — Rau. Die Grundlage der Modernen Chemie. Oral and 

 written exercises. 



Horticulture. — Cultivation and propagation of fruits. Lectures, with 

 oral and written abstracts. 



Sophomores who do not study " Agriculture " and " Horticulture," 

 elect German. 



Junior Year. 



Fall Term. 



Mechanics. — Lectures. Oral and written abstracts. Dana's Mechanics. 



English Literature. — Lectures on the eai'ly history of the English 

 Nation and formation of the language. Study of the early litera- 

 tui-e. 



Geology. — Instruction given by lectures, by text-books, and by constant 

 field work in the study of I'ocks and geological formations, with 

 particular refei'ence to the recognition of the characteristics of the 

 different periods of geological histoiy, and the application of the 

 facts gained, to agriculture, as related to the formation, composi- 

 tion and characteristics of soils. 



Latin. 



Horticulture. — Market gardening and floriculture. Entomology, with 

 special reference to injurious and beneficial insects. Packard's 

 Guide to Study of Insects. 



WiTiier Term. 



Physics and Analytical Geometry. — Atkinson's Ganot's Physics, 

 new edition. Loomis's Analytical Geometry. 



English Literature. — Study of Shakespeare. Lectures on the his- 

 toric epochs in connection with the text-book. Original theses. 



Chemistry. — Instruction in the laboratory, with recitations. Blow- 

 pipe analysis, with the determination of the characteristics of the 

 more common metals and minerals. Determination of unknown 

 substances. Humid analysis. Determination of characteristics of 

 all the commonly occurring elements. Determination of bases 

 and acids in known compounds. 



Latin. 



Agriculture. — Soils ; farm implements ; manures ; rotation of crops. 



