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III. 



" In Germany, where the experience has been longer than in any 

 other part of Europe, the question of connecting agricultural in- 

 stitutes with others, or of having isolated and independent establish- 

 ments, has long been agitated, and is now more warmly discussed 

 than ever before ; one party and it is possibly by far the larger 

 taking the ground for, and the other against, such union ; each 

 governed, in a measure, no doubt, by personal experience in the 

 one or the other system. 



So far as I was able to inform myself, the ground taken by the 

 advocates of a union with the universities is, that it is better for a 

 young man, setting out to procure a liberal education in agri- 

 culture, to lay the foundation in a thorough knowledge of general 

 principles embodied in the wide range of sciences which bear more 

 or less upon agriculture, and then to devote himself to the applica- 

 tion of those principles by practical labor on a suitable farm or 

 farms for one or more years, or till he becomes efficient in the 

 manipulations. 



This course will be seen, on reflection, to be closely analogous to 

 our present most approved modes of acquiring a thorough knowl- 

 edge of law, medicine, and divinity." 



THE " AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE IN PENNSYLVANIA " ABANDONS THE 

 NAME, FOR THAT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE. 



PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE. Upon application by the 

 trustees of the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania, the court of 

 Centre County has changed the name of that institution to the one 

 given above. The change was desired, because the old name 

 misled many persons as to the character of the college, and failed 

 to express the breadth of purpose contemplated by the law of 

 Congress under which it received its endowment. The law dis- 

 tinctly stated that the institutions organized under it, " shall have 

 as their leading object, without excluding other scientific and 

 classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such 

 branches of learning as are related to Agriculture and the 

 Mechanic Arts." 



