PROGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. AT3 
papier-maché models of the several parts of the mouth and foot of the 
horse have been procured to show the structure and motion of these 
organisms. The library contains over 4,000 volumes, largely scientific. 
Tuition in the agricultural, mechanical, engineering, chemical, and 
military courses is free, a matriculation fee of $10 only being required 
on entering the university, and $2 50 per term for incidental expenses. 
The trustees have voted to admit females as soon as suitable accom- 
modations can be provided. They already attend the lecture courses. 
Students are paid for the labor they perform either on the farm or in 
the workshops, and many young men pay their way through college in 
this manner. 
The college year commences about the first of September, and ends 
about the first week in June. It is divided into three terms of fourteen, 
twelve, and ten weeks respectively. Whole number of students during 
the year, 196. Of these 62 are in the department of agriculture. 
TOWA. 
No important changes in the plan or course of study, or in the board 
of instruction, of the Iowa State Agricultural College, at Ames, have 
been made since our last report. The college has been from its com- 
mencement a marked success, especially in the features that distinguish 
itas an agricultural college. The students, asa body, have shown a 
steady and hearty sympathy with the governmentin its plans, policy, and 
purposes. ‘There has been throughout the year a degree of regularity, 
promptness, and cheerful obedience rarely surpassed in any institution. 
It is the purpose of the college instruction and drill to make profi- 
cients in the sciences which underlie the various branches of industry, 
and by manual labor to produce experts in allits various applications to 
the operations of the garden, farm, and workshop. For the accomplish- 
ment of the former object a thorough knowledge of these branches is 
required, under the instruction of the professors, in the recitation-room ; 
and of the latter, a practical application of the same by labor in the gar- 
den andon the farm. The garden and farm are, therefore, to be brought 
to a high state of excellence, and in the manner in which they are laid 
out, inthe implements used, in the processes of cultivation, in their or- 
der and neatness, and, above all, in their products, they are to be made 
models and striking examples of the results which artistic skill can 
reach when properly applied to these departments of industry. They are 
to exhibit all the modern improvements, to illustrate all the new varie- 
ties of fruits, grasses, and esculent roots that are really valuable, and to 
show to every observer the fact that, when beauty and profit are wisely 
combined, they ultimately produce the highest profits reckoned in ac- 
tual cash. Besides these important results, the garden and farm are to 
be so managed as to contribute something to the progress of agricultu- 
ral and horticultural science and art, and to settle many important ques- 
tions in agriculture. Such appears to be the aim of the management. 
The manual-labor system introduced into the college has succeeded even 
beyond the expectations of its advocates. Its influence on the health, 
progress, and conduct of the pupils has been in the highest degree salu- 
tary. The president says: “ From the experience of the past year, and 
convictions of a lifetime, I have full faith in the wisdom of the law that 
requires manual labor from every student, and I believe that such a re- 
quisition is indispensable to the prosperity of an industrial school. It 
gives needful exercise and bodily vigor, imparts skill in the use of tools, 
helps the student to defray his current expenses, applies science to 
practice, and promotes respect for honorable toil.” 
