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the Kens vanished to give place again to a uniform 

 administrative organ, the Hokkaido Clio. The Col- 

 lege was then placed under the new authority. 



At last by an Imperial Ordinance issued in Decem- 

 ber, 1886, the College was put on a firmer footing ; 

 but its position was a unique one, since it was placed 

 under the joint jurisdiction of two authorities. As 

 far as the business part of the institution was con- 

 cerned, it was to be directed by the Governor of the 

 Hokkaido ; but as relating to the personnel of the 

 faculty and the instruction, the Department of Pub- 

 lic Instruction was to exercise the right of super- 

 vision. 



P In March of the following year, Shosuke Sato, 

 Ph. D., who had been appointed Professor four 

 months before, was made to act as Director until a 

 person be found to fill the latter position. Dr. Sato 

 was well calculated to occupy the chair of Acting 

 Director, being himself a graduate of the College in 

 the pioneer class, and having afterward pursued his 

 agrarian studies in the Johns Hopkins "University, 

 Baltimore, U.S. While in America, he distinguish- 

 ed himself by a monograph in English on the 

 "Land Question in the United States." Under his 

 administration, the College saw great and important 

 changes. The field of its instruction was so enlarged 

 as to include different collegiate courses and dif- 

 ferent grades of agricultural study. The two main 

 courses or rather departments of the College proper 

 were those of Agriculture and Civil Engineering, 

 leading respectively to the degree of Nogakushi 

 (Batchelor of Agriculture) and Kogakushi (Batchelor 

 of Engineering). The Preparatory Department was 



