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at tot Institution. 



After what has already been said it would seem superflu- 

 ous to dwell here upon the object of this institution, yet a 

 few words in detail, may throw light upon what has been 

 said. The Agricultural College of Pennsylvania has for 

 its object, to associate a high degree of intelligence with the 

 practice of Agriculture and the industrial arts, and to seek 

 to make use of this intelligence in developing the agricul- 

 tural and industrial resources of the country, and pro- 

 tecting its interests. It proposes to do this by several 

 means. 



1st. As a purely educational institution, its course of in- 

 struction is to include the entire range of the Natural 

 Sciences ; but will embrace most especially those that have' 

 a practical bearing upon the every day duties of life, in 

 order to make the student familiar with the things immedi- 

 ately around him, and with the powers of nature he employs, 

 and with the material through the instrumentality of which, 

 under the blessing of Providence, he lives and moves and 

 has his being: and since agriculture more than any other 

 of the industrial arts, is important to man, and since for the 

 complete elucidation of its principles more scientific know- 

 ledge is required than for all other industrial arts combined, 

 it follows that this should receive by far the highest degree 

 of attention. The course of instruction is thorough, so 

 that it hot only affords the student the facts of science, 

 but it disciplines his mind to habits of thought, and en- 

 bles him fully to comprehend the abstract principles in- 

 volved in the practical operations of life. In doing this it 

 is not deemed possible to educate every agriculturist, arti- 

 san, mechanic, and business man in the state, but to send 

 out a few students educated in the college course that they, 

 by the influence of precept and example, may infuse new 

 life and intelligence into the several communities they 

 enter. A single individual who is thoroughly educated in 

 the principles and the practice of an art, followed by a com- 

 munity, will often exert a more salutary influence upon 

 the practice of this art, by the community, than would re- 



