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Students who are properly prepared will have the opportunity to pursue a more 

 advanced course of study. 



Instruction in Military Tactics is given throughout the course, from which no 

 student is exempt unless physically disabled ; and each student not so exempt is re- 

 quired to provide himself with the prescribed uniform as soon as he enters the 

 college. 



Manual labor on the farm or in the workshops is required of the students only in 

 so far as is necessary for their thorough instruction in those technicalities, and it is 

 believed that it will not exceed two hours a week for each student. 



COMPENSATED EXTRA LABOR. 



In the erection of college buildings, farm buildings, fences, bridges, &c. ; in the 

 care of live stock, of a garden, of a dairy, &c. ; in the carpenter's and blacksmith's 

 shops; in the management of steam motive-power and of apparatus for furnishing 

 heat, light and water; there will be much work which can be done by students spe- 

 cially fitted for these different employments by previous practice or extraordinary 

 intelligence and diligence, and to such a good compensation can be allowed for time 

 so spent. The experience of other institutions gives warning that no one should 

 expect to support himself at college wholly by his labor, and very few can earn any 

 large part of the necessary expenses ; but it may be stated, for the encouragement of 

 those who are willing to practice great industry and economy, that students have 

 proven during the session just closed that it is possible to reduce the cost of food and 

 lodging to five dollars per month, to pay the greater part of that by extra hand-work, 

 and yet at the same time to maintain an excellent standing in their classes, and win 

 numerous certificates of distinction. 



For further information, address 



C. L. C. MINOR, PRESIDENT, 

 Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Virginia. 



