AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 



through the well tramped mud of the breaking up of the 

 winter frosts. 



The limited number of students that could be admitted 

 did not allow of the employment of a sufficient number of 

 professors, teachers, and assistants to admit of a proper 

 division of labor among them, and hence an efficient 

 organization of the institution was not possible. The un- 

 precedented nature of the experiment made it necessary to 

 intrust it to inexperienced hands; and although every pre- 

 caution was taken to admit none but students of the very 

 highest character, yet unfortunately, experience soon 

 proved that this flock was not without its " black sheep." 

 Add to all this the general sentiment of superficial ob- 

 servers, that the building never could be finished, and the 

 unhappy state of feeling produced in the minds of many in 

 consequence of pecuniary losses they sustained by the 

 failure of the first contractor, and bear in mind the state of 

 the finances of the Board of Trustees as already pointed 

 out, and we have some of the difficulties encountered by 

 the Farm School on first corning into existence. 



FACULTY FOR 1860. 



At the nineteenth meeting of the Board of Trustees, 

 held at the College, December 7th, 1859, the following 

 faculty were nominated, and instructions given to pre- 

 pare the first annual catalogue. 



EVAN PUGH, Ph. D. & F. C. S., President. 



DAVID WILSON, A. M., Vice President. 



WM. G. WARING, General Superintendent of the Hor- 

 ticultural Department. 



J. S. WHITMAN, A. M., Professor of Botany. 



R. C. ALLISON, A. M., Professor of English Literature. 



In view of the financial affairs of the Board, and the 

 unfinished state of the building, the Rev. Thomas P. 

 Hunt was appointed to solicit donations for the College. 

 Mr. Hunt entered upon his duties with characteristic 

 earnestness, but it was soon found that the country had not 

 yet sufficiently recovered from the financial crisis of 1857, 



