practical has widely different interests from what 

 is to be scientific. An education, in order to be of 

 practical use in a new country, must needs be more 

 comprehensive than profound : it can afford to be- 

 come special only as that country grows older. 

 This truth is well illustrated in the development 

 of our College curricula, as will be evident from a 

 glance at the list of College studies of 1876, given 

 elsewhere in this paper. 



Attached to the College, and forming an integral 

 part of it, was the Preparatory Department, where 

 boys over twelve years of age might be admitted 

 and prepared for the collegiate course proper. 



An important adjunct to the College was a tract 

 of some two hundred and fifty acres of government 

 land lying a mile north of the College. Nearly one 

 half of this area had been opened before it came 

 under the direct control of the College, while the 

 rest consisted of wild and forest land. Experiments, 

 scientific and practical, could be made on this ground. 

 President Clark caused to be erected on it, a model 

 barn which was the first of its kind not only in the 

 Hokkaido but in the whole Empire. The building 

 was of spruce wood, the foundation being of season- 

 ed timbers from oak and elm trees, which were 

 abundant in the vicinity. The ground floor was in 

 dimensions 100 x 50 feet, the hight of the posts from 

 the ground to the eaves 25 feet. No efforts were 

 spared to make it an object worthy of imitation 

 among the farmers of the country. The barn was 

 provided with a well constructed cellar, over which 

 was the floor for horses and cattle, while the floor 

 above was to serve for the storage of hay. Much of 



