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VII. The seventh and last course embraces the modern 

 languages (French and German), political economy, con- 

 stitutional history, and a course of lectures on rural law, 

 including the rights and obligations of landholders, and 

 other subjects of practical importance to every citizen, 

 whatsoever his profession. 



I have now sketched more or less in detail the seven 

 divisions of our agricultural course. It is for three years rigid 

 and defined, with liberty to select and specialize in the fourth. 

 The structure is reared somewhat after this fashion: Agri- 

 culture the foundation; botany, chemistry, zoology, and 

 mathematics the four corner-stones; while the walls are 

 solidly built up with English, horticulture, floriculture, and 

 forestry on one side; English, physiology, entomology, com- 

 parative anatomy of the domestic animals, and veterinary, 

 on another ; English, mechanics, physics, and civil engi- 

 neering on the third; and English, French, German, politi- 

 cal economy, and constitutional history on the fourth. The 

 study of English is made the basis of all study. It is inter- 

 woven with every course. It is, in fact, the very warp and 

 woof of every branch pursued. These seven courses, each 

 distinct in itself, yet each aiding in the interpretation or 

 solution of the difficult problems met with, require a four 

 years' course. They proceed hand in hand, and the com- 

 pletion of a study in one department is coincident with 

 that in another. Mutual help is the watchword. Each for 

 all, but all for each, in laying broad and deep the founda- 

 tion and building up the solid structure. Thus, when the re- 

 lations of the weather — of heat, air, moisture — to farm- 

 ing are considered, on the botanical side are being studied the 

 structure of the plant, its organs, the relation of its root- 



