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MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL, COLLEGE. 



The ag-rioultural course in this college requires four or five jeara 

 for completion, depending- on the preparation of the candidates for 

 admission, and leads to the degree of bachelor of science. The 

 entrance examinations for the iive-year course cover the following- 

 subjects: Arithmetic, geography, grammar, reading, spelling, pen- 

 manship, and history of the United States. The holder of a teacher's 

 certiticate, or eighth-grade diploma signed l)y a county commissiner 

 and issued by a school following the course of study outlined by 

 the State superintendent of public instruction, will be admitted to 

 the five-year course without examination. For admission to the four- 

 year course, students must hold diplomas from high schools on an 

 accredited list, or nuist, in addition to the requirements named above, 

 pass examinations in algeltra through quadratic ecpiations, in plane 

 geometry, in elementary physics, and in English. Candidates for 

 admission nuist bring testimonials of good character, and must be not 

 less than fifteen years of age. 



The entrance requirementsalsopresuppose that the applicant has the 

 ability to harness and drive horses, to plow, harrow, mark corn ground, 

 drill, operate the mower, reaper, and farm implements generally, and 

 to perform in a neat and workmanlike manner the details of regular 

 farm work. A failure to pass this examination will not exclude from 

 the college; another opportunity will be provided at the close of the 

 second year to pass on these studies. If the student then fails he will 

 be required to remain at the college during the summer vacation 

 between his second and third years, or to work for the same period on 

 some farm approved by the professoi- of agriculture. He will receive 

 his final examination on the subject at the beginning of the junior 

 year. 



- Since both the four-year and the five-year courses cover practically 

 the same ground in agricultural su])jects, onl}^ the four-year course 

 will l)e described. 



The course is centered around instruction and practice in agriculture 

 and horticulture and the sciences directly hearing upon successful 

 farming. It includes the following credits: Agriculture, 00; agri 

 culture or horticulture (elective), 59; anatomy, 10; bacteriology, 14; 

 bacteriology (elective), 24:; botany, 56; botany (elective), 12; chem- 

 istry, 42; chemistry (elective), 12; civil engineering, 6; civil engineer- 

 ing (elective), 24; drawing, 10; economics (elective), 12; English, 59; 

 English (elective), 12; entomology, 12; geology (elective), 10; Ger- 

 man (elective), 60; history (elective), 12; horticulture, 51; hygiene, 4; 

 mathematics, 29; meteorology (elective), 12; military science and tac- 

 tics, 22; physics, 20; physics (elective), 12; political science, 10; psy- 

 chology (elective), 12; sanitary science, 6; veterinary science, 5; vet- 

 erinary science (elective), J^6; zoology, 20; zoology (elective), 12. 



