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lecture rooms. It was also furnished with a tower 

 and clock which served the purpose of a municipal 

 horologe. A complete outfit of physical apparatus, 

 a large purchase of chemical instruments and re- 

 agents, the acquisition of a fine microscope and 

 spectroscope, important additions to the library, the 

 accession to the faculty of John C. Cutter, M. D., as 

 Professor of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy, 

 of Cecil H. Peabody, B. S., as Professor of Mathe- 

 matics and Mechanics, of Lieutenant Kato as Military 

 Instructor, of Michimasa Mij^azaki, B. S., as Chemi- 

 cal Assistant, all these, to borrow the words of 

 President Wheeler, were a proof that " the material 

 needs of the College for carrying out the routine of 

 study and training, prescribed under the present 

 system, have been, in the main, provided for." 

 " The institution " he continues " has passed the 

 formative stage, and is now possessed of all the im- 

 portant requisites for its legitimate work." 



It is interesting to note that in this the third year 

 of its existance the first change was made in the 

 curriculum of the College. The time devoted to 

 Zoology, during the first term of the Junior Year, 

 was increased from three to six hours per week, and 

 that given to English composition and elocution 

 reduced from four to one hour each week. These 

 changes, perhaps not so very important in them- 

 selves, were significant of the spirit and inclination 

 of the institution to eliminate whatever was not vital 

 to its sphere as an Agricultural College and to grow 

 more and more true to its name, until it should 

 attain its specific character. 



Another feature of the same period worthy of our 



