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ment advancing the needed money, on condition that 

 they should return, after graduation, the debt so 

 incurred in regular instalments. This liberal pro- 

 vision was of wide application, and was eagerly 

 taken advantage of. But as the dormitory, the 

 chemical laboratory, the lecture rooms, etc. were 

 constructed to accommodate not more than fifty, the 

 actual number of attendants at any one time could 

 never exceed that total to any large degree. No new 

 admission of students had been made until the pio- 

 neer class was graduated in the summer of 1880. 

 This class originally twenty-four strong, dwindled 

 to thirteen by the time they reached the end of their 

 collegiate career. Upon them was conferred the 

 degree ef " Nogakushi," literally "Batchelor of 

 Agriculture," and they were soon employed by the 

 Kaitakuslii in different capacities according to their 

 varied aptitudes, but all of them connected with 

 agriculture, engineering and education. This band 

 of young educated officials, the first fruits of the 

 institution, was reinforced the following year by a 

 fresh supply of ten graduates, who, too, found their 

 calling awaiting them in civil service. 



The only fact worth mentioning in particular in 

 the record of the year 1881, was the promotion of 

 Genzo Mori to fill the chair of Director vacated by 

 the resignation of the Hon. Dsusho. Mori remained 

 in office until 1886. !Let it be stated here that the 

 Presidency was successively assigned after Wheeler 

 to Penhallow and Brooks ; the latter occupying that 

 position from August, 1880, until the day when that 

 office was absorbed in 1886 in that of Director, j 



The history of the College since 1882 has been 



