194 SECOND ANNUAL MEETING. 



The instructional force of the University (besides the President) is 

 as follows: One Professor of Latin and Greek, and two Assistants; 

 one instructor in Hebrew; one Professor of Mathematics, and two 

 Assistants; one Professor of Modern Languages, and two Assistants; 

 one Professor of Chemistry, and two Assistants (advanced students;) 

 one Professor of Physics and Mechanics; one Professor of Geology 

 and Natural History; one Professor of Civil Engineering and As 

 tronomy; one Professor of Rhetoric, History, and English Lan 

 guage; one instructor in Drawing; one Professor in Agriculture, 

 Agricultural Chemistry, and Horticulture. 



Your petitioners do, therefore, request, that in accordance with 

 plans pursued at Cornell, the Massachusetts and Michigan Agricul 

 tural Colleges, the Universities of Missouri, Illinois, and many 

 others (as may be seen from the report already referred to), that 

 whatever State aid is granted for our University, and as rapidly as 

 the income from the land sales is received, it may be &quot;first of all 

 applied to the extending of the Colleges of Agriculture and the Me 

 chanic Arts, and all the departments of instruction which directly 

 bear upon the studies pursued in them.&quot; 



With this object in view, we earnestly recommend a sufficient 

 appropriation to carry out the following objects: 



First. The improvement of such portions of the University grounds 

 as may be required to illustrate practically the subjects taught in the 

 Department of Agriculture, and the adaptation of this State to 

 various cultures. The erection of a plain, convenient, and commo 

 dious farm house, with suitable outhouses, to be occupied by the 

 Professor of Agriculture, or some practical farmer to act under his 

 direction. To this an orchard, vineyard, vegetable and flower gar 

 den, and a poultry yard should be attached; also, a propagating 

 house, and, as soon as practicable, a conservatory. The culture of 

 cereals, textiles, and other valuable vegetable productions; the 

 rearing of stock, bees, and silk worms should be illustrated, on a 

 small scale, epitomizing the entire range of agricultural industries. 



Second. The appropriation of a sufficient amount to secure the 

 necessary practical instruction in the mechanic arts; to provide 

 blacksmiths , carpenters , cabinet and machine shops, and printing 

 press, under the supervision of competent persons. 



We by no means expect to accomplish all this at once, but we ask 

 means to secure to the youth of our State, with proper economy and 

 despatch, the advantages enjoyed by students of the best developed 

 institutions which owe their existence to the same foundation. We 

 desire that the grounds of our University, its museums, parks arid 

 gardens, may eventually become as instructive as those of the Gar 

 den of Plants at Paris; and that our College of Mechanic Arts may, 

 without needless delay, rival the Technological School in Boston. 

 We ask that in keeping with the educational standards of the age, 

 the principles of object teaching and practical instruction be con 

 ducted in connection with the ideal and theoretical, and occupy in 

 the chief school of the State, the position which their importance 

 demands. We believe that nowhere will the dignity of labor be so 

 strongly impressed upon the mind as in those higher institutions 

 of learning, organized for the benefit of the most important class of 



