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tbe congressioual land-graut $2,500, aud from its own endowment, and 

 money received from Plielps County, $9,000, making in all an annual 

 income of 812,000. 



The number of students in attendance during the present scholastic 

 year, ending in June, 1872, is 28. 



NEBRASKA. 



University of Nebraska — College of Agriculture, at Lincoln, Allen B. 

 Benton, LL. B., chancellor. — This university forms a part of the educa- 

 tional system of the State, and is subject to the same laws as the com- 

 mon schools. Its regents are appoiuted by the legislature, and all 

 students who are residents of the State are admitted tree of charge for 

 tuition, and are furnished with books at cost. None of the land granted 

 by Congress under the act of July 2, 1862, has yet been sold. Two pro- 

 fessors, H. E. Hitchcock, A. M., professor of mathematics, and S. R. 

 Thompson, professor of agriculture, have been added to the faculty of 

 the university during the present year. Six courses of study have, thus 

 far, been prepared for the university, and are now open to students, viz, 

 the classical course, the scientific, the Latin scientific, and two courses 

 in agriculture. The College of Agriculture was opened September 12, 

 1872. One of the agricultural courses occupies four years, and includes, 

 besides studies exclusively agricultural, nearly all the English branches 

 of an ordinary college course. The other occupies one year, and is de- 

 voted to practical agricultiu-e only. Twenty students have commenced 

 the full course in agriculture. 



The college-farm contains 480 acres of very valuable land adjoining 

 the city of Lincoln, aud a beginning has been made in its improvement. 

 During the summer of this year 20 acres of it, consisting of prairie 

 land, have beeil broken, and will be cultivated with crops next year. 

 The university is supplied with extensive and entirely new apparatus 

 in the departments of chemistry and physics. The conveniences and 

 completeness of the laboratory are said to be equal to any in the 

 country, and ample provision is made for extensive experiments and 

 illustration in practical and analytical chemistry. The students are fur- 

 nished with a given amount of chemicals free of charge, and those of 

 the College of Agriculture are admitted to the same privileges in the use 

 of the apparatus, cabinets, and library as those of the other depart- 

 ments of the university. A spacious room has been provided for the 

 cabinet and museum, and about 12,000 choice specimens have been 

 collected. 



The number of students in the College of Agriculture the present year 

 is 25 ; in the university, 130. 



NEVADA. 



No information has been received from this State during the present 

 year, but from the statements made to the Department in 1871, it is pre- 

 sumed that it prefers to defer the sale of its lands, aud tbe establish- 

 ment of an agricultural college till large prices can be obtained. 



NEW IIAMPSIIIEE. 



Dartmouth College — College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, at 

 Hanover, Rev. Asa D. Smith, D. D., LL. Z>., president. — The number of 

 students in this college has nearly doubled during the present year. 



