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sources to give a limited portion of their time to lecturing in 

 the college, uninfluenced by financial considerations. A large 

 part of the staff could be supplied by the same method as is 

 now in vogue in many of the strongest medical colleges where- 

 in physicians devote a certain portion of their time to college 

 lectures. Frequently the services of the ablest medical men 

 could only be secured in this way. If a course of advanced 

 lectures in forestry, rubber cultivation, soils and soil manage- 

 ment, tropical entomology, plant pathology, and the like could 

 be given by the specialists in these lines who are already in 

 the Territory, the College of Agriculture of Hawaii could of- 

 fer to its students a course so strong as to compare favorably 

 with any of the colleges of the mainland in its special sphere. 

 An occasional lecture could also be provided by some one 

 Avho has made a success in the business of agriculture from a 

 commercial standpoint. This practice is being carried out by 

 colleges on the mainland, and has its valuable features. It 

 drawls the farmer into closer contact with the college, and tho 

 college into closer sympathy with the work of the farmer. 

 The students gain much inspiration as well as valuable infor- 

 mation from a talk Uy one who has succeeded in the growing 

 of pineapples or some other crop. 



In this way it would be possible to build up on small re- 

 sources a very able college of tropical agriculture, unique in 

 its sphere among American agricultural colleges, equal in its 

 standard to any of them, and which would be a powerful force 

 in the molding of the future of agricultural industries in 

 Hawaii. 



SYLLABUS OF A FOUR YEARS' COURSE LV AGRICUL- 

 TURE BASED UPON THE SEVERAL REPORTS OF 

 THE COMMITTEE ON METHODS OF TEACHING 

 AGRICULTURE OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERI- 

 CAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES AND EXPERI- 

 MENT STATIONS.^ 



(Compiled by F. G. Krauss.-)- 



General subjects essential to a four years' course in agricul- 

 ture leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science '. 



Hours. 



Algebra 75 



Geometry 40 



^ Committee of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges 

 and Experiment Stations. See Reports U. S. Dept. of Agri., Office of 

 Experiment Stations, Buls. 41, p. 57; 49, p. 29; 65, p. 79; 76, p. 39, and 

 Bui. No. 127; and Circ's. 32, 37, 39, 41, and 45. 



^ With slight alterations to adapt same to Hawaiian crops. 



