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blood, urine, metals, and ores; mineralogy; geology; rhetoric; French; 

 German. 



The annual college session is divided into two terms with two vaca- 

 tions. The first term extends from the loth of September to the 15th 

 of December ; the second from the loth of January to the first Wed- 

 nesday in August, which is commencement-day. Tuition for all stu- 

 dents, except State beneficiaries, $100 for the entire session. Board in 

 college-dormitories, $12.50 per month ; in private houses, $10 to $25. 



North Georgia Agricultural College, at Bahlonega, Rev. A. A. Lipsocmb, 

 D. JD., cliancellor. — This college is pleasantly located in Lumpkin County, 

 in the northeastern part of the State, about seventy miles from Atlanta, 

 the capital. It was incorporated under the laws of Georgia on the 15th 

 day of April, 1871. Congress, by an act approved the 20th of April, 

 1871, donated to the trustees of this college the building formerly known 

 as the United States Branch Mint at Dahlonega, for the purposes of 

 education exclusively, under the provisions of the act of Congress, ap- 

 proved July 2, 1862, for the endowment of agricultural colleges. Soon 

 after the act of Congress, donating this building and the ten acres of 

 ground on which it is situated was passed, the Government made a deed 

 of the Y>roperty to the college. The building is a stately brick edifice in 

 a fine state of preservation, and, with the real estate connected with it, 

 cost the Government in 1835 over $70,000. It contains twenty-seven 

 spacious rooms, and is sufficiently large to accommodate about four hun- 

 dred students. It has lately been repaired, and was opened for the 

 reception of students on the 1st day of January, 1873. 



By an arrangement made in November, 1872, with the trustees of the 

 University of Georgia, who received the proceeds of the land-scrip 

 donated by Congress to this State, the North Georgia Agricultural Col- 

 lege now forms a branch of the Georgia State College of Agriculture 

 and the Mechanic Arts, at Athens, sixty-five miles distant. At present 

 this institution receives but $2,000 per annum from the interest derived 

 from the sales of the land-scrip. To this sum may be added the donation of 

 $300 which is to be received annually from the trustees of the Peabody 

 educational fund. 



In addition to the agricultural and mechanical department there is a 

 preparatory department, to fit students for entering upon the higher 

 courses of study. The gentlemen selected to take charge of these depart- 

 ments are experienced educators. Hon. David W. Lewis, the president, 

 is a graduate of the University of Georgia, and was for several years 

 secretary of the State Agricultural Society. Professor Henry Perry is 

 a graduate of Emory College, and also of a normal school, and was em- 

 ployed, previous to his acceptance of a position in this college, as a teacher 

 in the city schools of Savannah, in this State. Owing to the smallness 

 of the endowment, and the admission of students without charge for 

 tuition, only a small entrance-fee being demanded for repairs of the 

 college building and premises, it is proposed that a number of young gen- 

 tlemen and young ladies, who have heretofore been teaching for a live- 

 lihood, and who have determined to enter the normal department, shall 

 be emx)loyed, under the supervision of the president, to take charge of 

 the pupils in the preparatory department. These teachers are to receive 

 a compensation which will enable them to complete a thorough course 

 of instruction, thus benefiting themselves and at the same time the pupils 

 of the preparatory department. Both sexes will here receive the same 

 educational advantages. Already about fifty girls and young ladies 

 have procured certificates of admission, and the trustees expect at least 

 one hundred and twenty students on the first week of the session. The 



