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S. G. Burue,y,D. D.. professor of English literature ; C. W. Sears, M. A., 

 of civil engineering ; L. C. Garland, LL. 1)., of mineralogy ; George 

 Ljttle, Ph. D., of mineralogy and geology ; E. ^Y. Hilgard, Ph. B., of 

 agriculture and economic chemistry, and geology and agriculture of the 

 State; J. A. Lyon, D. D., of political economy ; adjunct professors — K. 

 S. Gutherie, B. A., adjunct professor of mathematics ; R. B. Fulton, B. 

 A., of physics ; K. H. Loughridge, B. S., of practical chemistry ; John 

 B. Adger, B. A., of general chemistry ; M. W. Philips, M. I)., of special 

 and practical agriculture ; A. B. Whitfield, B. A., instructor in history. 



The agricultural course of study occupies four years, and is as fol- 

 lows: 



Freshman year — First term. — General agriculture ; botany — struct- 

 ural and systematic, with excursions ; geometry ; English— composition 

 and rhetoric; history. Second term.— General agriculture; botany- 

 determinative and economic; trigonometry, land-surveying, leveling, 

 &c. ; English — composition and rhetoric; history. 



SoPHO]MORE YEAR — First term. — Practical agriculture ; special agri- 

 culture—tillage, subsoiling, drainage, &c.; zoology — general and sys- 

 tematic; physics; English — composition and rhetoric. Second term. 

 — Practical agriculture ; special agi'iculture— preparation of land, seed- 

 ing, cultivation, harvesting, storing crops, &c. ; zoology — domestic 

 animals, animals and insects useful and injurious to agriculture ; gen- 

 eral chemistry ; English. 



Junior ybau— First term. — Practical agriculture; special agricul- 

 ture—details of culture of the several crops ; agriculture and economic 

 cTiemistry; general chemistry: mineralogy; English — higher rhetoric. 

 Second term. — Practical agriculture ; agricultural and economic chem- 

 istry ; special agriculture — horticulture, trench-farming, fruit-culture ; 

 geology, mineralogy; English — higher rhetoric. 



Senior year — First term. — Practical agriculture ; stock and daivy- 

 farming; special geologyandagriculture of the State; rural-engineering, 

 landscape-gardening, &c.; ethics; English literature ; political economy. 

 Secojid term.— Practical agriculture ; stock and dairy farming ; special 

 geology and agriculture of the State ; rural economy — policy of culture; 

 general summary; ethics; political economy ; English literature. 



The number of students in the university during the year was 112. 



Alcorn University — A(r>icidtural and Meclianical College^ at Rodney, 

 Bev. H. R. Revels, Z>. !>., presidait.— The buildings of this university 

 were formerly the property of Oakland College, but they have been re- 

 cently purchased by other parties for the purpose of establishing an 

 institution especially devoted to the education of colored youth. Al- 

 though this is its primary object, its doors are cheerfully open to all who 

 wish to avail themselves of its advantages. The university was opened 

 June, 1872, and has two professors besides the president. The ftuild- 

 iugs are of brick, substantially built, and in good condition, and could 

 not now be erected for less than $100,000. The Agricultural and Me- 

 chanical College was established May 10, 1871, and is a department of 

 the university. It is not yet organized, but the subject is now receiving 

 the attention of the trustees, and it is expected that the organization 

 will soon be completed, and students will enter upon a regular course 

 of agricultural studies. There is a farm of 200 acres belonging to the 

 university, which was purchased fjr $4,000, and will be used for the ox- 

 l)eriment'al farm of the college. Tlie objects had in ^'iew in its i^urchaso 

 were illustration by practical agriculture of the principles taught in the 

 class-room, the acquirement of facility in the use of farm-implements, 

 skill in performing the different operations required in agriculture, anr» 



