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extensive than that in any Agricultural College of Europe, 

 and a correspondingly longer time devoted "to study was 

 required for graduating. ]ts organization had been upon 

 a collegiate basis from the beginning, and the Trustees only 

 awaited the time in which they would be able to complete 

 its buildings, to change its name. Therefore, at the soli- 

 citation of the faculty, and on the recommendation of the 

 President of the Board of Trustees, H. N. McAllister made 

 application to the Centre County Court, at its spring 

 session, 1862, for a change of name, to the "Agricultural 

 College of Pennsylvania" The Court granted the request, 

 and the name as changed was approved by the Board at 

 its next meeting convened at Harrisburg, May 6th, 1862. 

 At this meeting it was resolved that a committee of three* 

 be appointed to prepare a history of the origin of the Ag- 

 ricultural College of Pennsylvania, as also to state its aims, 

 object, progress, and present condition and prospects. In 

 accordance with this resolution, the present pamphlet has 

 been prepared. 



The history of the College here closes in the events of 

 the active present to which attention will next be drawn. 

 The secret of its success, it will have been seen, is to be 

 found in the indomitable perseverance of a small' number 

 of public-spirited men, who were determined it should not 

 fail. 



As shown by the foregoing historical sketch, the Agri- 

 cultural College of Pennsylvania has been in operation for 

 four years. Its organization and means of accomplishing 

 the object for which it was founded, have been very im- 

 perfect, owing to unfinished buildings and want of funds. 

 Yet it has received a degree of patronage unprecedented in 

 the history of Agricultural Colleges. It has been filled 

 with students every session, except that of 1861, and many 

 have applied from other states, who could not be admitted. 

 With this success amidst the difficulties of the past, there 

 can be no doubt of its ultimate success in the future, now 

 that its college buildings are completed and the Agricul- 

 tural College bill has passed Congress. 



* This Committee consisted of the Hons. Fred. Watts and A. 0. Hiester, with 

 myself. It is due to these gentlemen, to state that their professional duties pre- 

 vented them from giving special attention to the work, and, therefore, for any in- 

 accuracies or imperfections in it, I alone am responsible. E. PUGH. 



