354 AGKICULTUEAL EEPORT. 



The adiniuistrative details of the college, such as concerns its discipline 

 and schedule of study, are intrusted to the chancellor of the university, 

 but the special oversight of the instruction is delegated to the president 

 of the college, under the direction of the chancellor. A number of 

 students equal to the number of senators and representatives in the 

 general assembly is to be appointed by the State, and educated free of 

 charge for tuition from the income of the national endowment fund. 

 Besides this fund the college has another, of 8120,000, derived from 

 other sources, from which it receives an annual income of $9,200. It 

 has at present no experimental farm, but vrill purchase one in a few 

 months. 



For admission to the agricultural course of study students must bo 

 sixteen years of age, and well versed in geography, arithmetic, and the 

 Englishlanguage. Instruction in practical agriculture on the farm will 

 be made a prominent feature in this course. A large quantity of excel- 

 lent apparatus has been recently purchased for a working chemical 

 laboratory, and every student in the college will be required to do actual 

 work in chemical manipulations. Students in applied chemistry will be 

 required to work in the laboratory, during the last year of tkeir course, 

 five hours daily for six days in the week. 



The faculty of the college consists of William LeRoy Broun, A.M., 

 president and professor in natural philosophy ; L. H. Charbonnier, A. 

 M., professor of engineering; Williams Rutherford, A. M., professor of 

 mathematics ; C. P. Willcox, A. M., professor of modern languages -, H. 

 C. White, B. Sc, C. E., M, E., professor of chemistry and geology ; F. 

 A. Lipscomb, A.M., professor of English and English literature; Charles 

 Morris, A.M., professor of history; E. M. Pendleton, M. D., professor 

 of agriculture and horticulture ; Samuel Barnett, jr., A. B., instructor in 

 mathematics ; Edward Hunter. 0. E., instructor in applied mathematics 

 and mechanical drawing; L.'H. Charbonnier, instructor in military 

 tactics. 



The courses of study are six, as follows : 



Course in ageicultuse. — First year. — Algebra; geometry; English 

 and English literature; linear drawing; book-keeping; history. Second 

 year. — Trigonometry; mensuration; surveying and leveling, with prac- 

 tical exercises in land and topographical surveying ; geometrical draw- 

 ing ; descriptive geometry ; rhetoric and English literature; French; 

 elements of chemistry, including chemical physics, notation and nomen- 

 clature, theory and laws of chemical combination, the elements non- 

 metallic and metallic, and their more important compounds and organic 

 chemistry ; laboratory practice, including chemical manipulations and 

 blowpipe analysis; mechanics of solids, liquids, and gases; physics, 

 includingheat,light, electricity, and magnetism; meteorology; elements 

 of astronomy; history. Third year. — Agricultural chemistry, including 

 the chemical composition of the plant and the laws regulating its 

 growth ; the physical and chemical properties of the soil ; the com- 

 position and use of crude and manipulated fertilizers ; agriculture, its 

 principles, its methods, and its products ; the preparation of manures 

 and composts ; laboratory practice, including qualitative analysis and 

 quantitative analysis of fertilizers ; rural engineering, or mechanical and 

 geometrical principles applied to agricultural machines, to irrigation, to 

 road-making and draining; the law titles, contracts and accounts; 

 mechanical and architectural drawing; botany; physiology, vegetable 

 and animal; mineralogy and geology ; French; architecture, including 

 principles of framing and building materials; meteorology; physical 

 geography. 



