chemistry, both organic and inorganic ; of engineering and surveying, as 

 related to irrigation and the reclaiming of waste lands; of political, rural 

 and domestic economy. Every one of these branches of knowledge is in- 

 timately related to scientific agriculture and the mechanic arts. Certainly 

 the demands of modern science in either or both of these fields far outrun 

 the usual popular and superficial estimate of them. But while science 

 was appointed to be the leading aim of the schools, there was to be no 

 exclusion of other studies which are suited ' to bring the light of general 

 culture to illuminate the technicalities of special pursuits.' The interest 

 of the country and its houor alike require that the colleges should be 

 thorough-going and maintain courses of instruction in all departments of 

 science. Thus only can they meet the exigencies of the times and place 

 our country on a par with European nations." 



The Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College has done for the great 

 interests whose name it bears what has been sketched, and more. Besides 

 furnishing ample instruction in the sciences relating to agriculture and the 

 mechanic arts, it has already established a chair of practical agriculture, 

 and hopes soon to add a department of practical mechanics. It is now 

 prepared to render most useful service to the great departments of indus- 

 trial life. Its doors are open to all comers, and its instruction is fur- 

 nished without charge. The only restriction is, that candidates for en- 

 trance shall be qualified to take up with profit the subjects here taught. 

 If it be asked what qualifications are requisite for entrance, the answer 

 is, a good common school education. Any one who knows well the elements 

 of English grammar, geography, and arithmetic, with the single addi- 

 tion of elementary algebra, can find place in the lower classes formed 

 here. The present requirements for admission are, however, criticised 

 from two opposite sides on the one hand as being too high, and on the 

 other as being too low. The first named complaint comes in the interest 

 of young men who seek to enter a college, while, by the grade of their 

 attainments, they really belong in a common school. They have never 

 mastered the common school branches, and are unprepared to take up, 

 with advantage, advanced studies. The College does not propose to du- 

 plicate the work of the common schools, even though the work of the 

 common schools is sometimes inadequately done. To the teaching of 

 these branches Ohio now devotes more than seven millions of dollars an- 

 nually. It would be a gross perversion of the national bequest to spend 

 one dollar of the thirty thousand which it annually produces, in teaching 

 these elementary studies, already so amply provided for by the State. 



The second criticism is suggested in the interest of the graded schools 

 pf the State. It is claimed that students will be tempted to leave the 



