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ical and philosophical apparatus are sufficient for the immediate wauts 

 of the college, and the cabinet of minerals is very comprehensive. 



The number of students in attendance since the opening of the col- 

 lege, with the national endowment, March 25 of the] present year, toth(i 

 close of the session, October 30, is 103. Thirty-nine of the number are 

 })ursuing agricultural and mechanical studies. 



ARKANSAS. 



Arlcansas Industrial University^ at FayettevillG, N. P. Gates, A. M., 

 ■president. — The embarrassment which existed last year in the way of 

 obtaining the land-scrip granted to this State under act of July 2, 18G2, 

 has been removed by an act of Congress approved December 13, 1872, 

 and the scrip will be delivered as soon as the necessary steps can be 

 taken. The university was opened on the 22d of January of the pres- 

 ent year, 1872, and two departments, the preparatory and normal, are 

 already in operation. The design of the normal department is to i)repare 

 students for the business of teaching, and all who will enter into a 

 written obligation to teach in the public schools of the State, for two 

 years after completing the course of study of three j^ears, are admitted 

 free of tuition. All others are charged $10 per term. The preparatory 

 department is under the supervision of the faculty of the university and 

 the normal department, and has for its object the preparation of students 

 for the normal department of the university, and for the others as soon 

 as they shall be put into operation. The course of study in this depart- 

 ment occupies five years. The Agricultural and Mechanical College has 

 not yet been opened, the delay having been occasioned in consequence 

 of not having derived any income from the national land-grant, upon 

 which it depends for its support. As the land has now been sold, it is 

 expected that this college will be organized and put into operation dur- 

 ing 1873. The number of professors and assistants in the university is 

 eight. 



A farm of 160 acres was purchased in the early part of the present 

 year, at an expense of $12,000. It is under the care of a superintend- 

 ent who has made a beginning in agriculture, but little has been done 

 on account of a want of means. The different varieties of wheat sent 

 to the university by the Department of Agriculture were sown and the 

 results noted. It is intended to conduct the operations of the farm on 

 a more extended scale the next year, and with special objects in view in its 

 culture. The funds of the university are not yet sufficiently available 

 to warrant the commencement of the erection of the new buildings 

 which it is contemplated to build soon. The temi)orary buildings, 

 erected at an expense of $5,000, will be occupied till better ones can be 

 supplied. 



The number of students in the university during the year 1872 is 183. 

 Of these about 40 or 50 are intending to enter upon the agricultural and 

 mechanical course of study when that college is opened, and they have 

 made sufficient preparation. About 30 have already given some atten- 

 tion to farm-work. The labor system thus far has been voluntary, and 

 students are paid 5 to 15 cents per hour for their labor, according to 

 their ability. 



CALIFORNIA. 



University of California, at Oaldand, Daniel G. Gibnan, A. M., presi- 

 dent. — The most important change made in this college during the 



