52 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 



much on the Students having gone through the studies of the 

 preceding year, and the latter being peculiar to an Agri- 

 cultural College, of which there are no others in the coun- 

 try, no students prepared to enter it are likely to apply. 

 Students who successfully complete this course of studies, 

 and pass a satisfactory examination, and prepare a disser- 

 tation of not less than fifteen pages of foolscap paper, upon 

 some scientific or literary subject, (if scientific, it must em- 

 brace an original investigation) approved by the faculty, 

 and whose general standing in the school shall have b* n 

 good, shall upon the recommendation of the faculty, have 

 the degree of Bachelor of Scientific and Practical Agricul- 

 ture, B. S. A. conferred upon them by the Board of Trus- 

 tees of the College. 



FIFTH TEAR. Students who after having taken the de- 

 gree of B. S. A. shall devote three years to Practical Agri- 

 culture, or to any intellectual pursuit or profession, shall 

 take the degree of Master of Scientific or Practical Agri- 

 culture, M. S. A., or, if they remain another year in the 

 Institution, and devote their time to special investigation, 

 they can take this degree at the terminatien of the year. 



Private Laboratories with means for investigation, will 

 be fitted up for graduates of this or any other College, in 

 which to pursue prolonged, special, scientific investigation. 

 Graduates of Literary Colleges, who may only have pur- 

 sued an ordinary text book course in science, and who wish 

 to devote some time more especially to science, in connex- 

 ion with agricultural practice, can take any part of the 

 above course, or devote themselves to scientific investiga- 

 tion with the graduates of the fifth year, at the same time 

 they are familiarizing themselves with the details of agri- 

 cultural practice on the farm. 



SCIENTIFIC EXCURSIONS. 



The valley and neighboring mountains afford rare oppor- 

 tunities for botanical study; and for Physical Geography, 

 Paleontology and Geology. This district is unsurpassed 



