1857.] Advantages af Studying Latin and Greeh. 503 



will be the case, and by cultivating four or five most hardy varieties 

 in the vineyard, a remunerative crop would be insured nearly every 

 year. 



Persons of small capital who have to depend upon the products 

 of their labor for the annual support of their families, would run 

 much hazard by engaging exclusively in the business. But to those 

 who have capital enough to bear the loss of an occasional crop, and 

 are not obliged to sell the wine immediately, and who manage the 

 business with ordinary providence and skill, we believe it will afl'ord 

 a safe and profitable investment of capital and labor. L. Mosher. 



Latonia Sjprings, October 15th, 1857. 



ADVANTAGES OF STUDYINa LATIN AND GREEK. 



It may not be known generally, that the studies embraced in our 

 regular Collegiate Institutions are as thoroughly attended to at 

 Farmers' College as elsewhere. Indeed, by the course here pur- 

 sued, these studies may be more fully mastered than where the sci- 

 ences are included, and there is but a single course pursued or which 

 amounts to the same thing, where importance is attached chiefly to 

 the linguistic course, and the honors of the College conferred on no 

 others than those who have studied so many pages of Latin, and 

 Greek, and boxed the compass of science, mathematics, mental and 

 moral philosophy, Belles Letters, etc , in the short space of four 

 years. As to the importance of studying the Latin and Greek, we 

 leave our professor in that department to speak for himself. — Ed. 



When the dying father revealed to his four sons the startling secret, 

 that here and there upon his large farm, he had buried golden treas- 

 ures ; he most wisely bequeathed to those sons a two fold blessing 

 personal vigor, and abounding crops. The flfeld of classic literature 

 invites the student to just such a two-fold reward, a vigorous mind, 

 and treasures of truth. In the first place, look at the personal vigor 

 of intellect that must attend the proper study of these languages. — 

 Witness the operation, which, to do the work properly, must occupy 

 from one to two hours per day, for two years. It may profitably be 

 kept up longer, but by no means for less than two years. I say, 



