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of tlie College to qualify its students for intelligent 

 and effective work in the administration of business, 

 and in those departments of industry and technical 

 science pertaining to agriculture and the develop- 

 ment of natural resources, manufactures, and the 

 maintenance of an advanced civilization ; also to 

 promote conceptions of their relations to the state 

 and to society, and of self-culture befitting their 

 prospective stations." As thus defined, the College 

 was by no means strictly agricultural ; and to have 

 called it so was nothing short of misnomer. Its 

 real object was, as we see, much broader and ap- 

 proached in fact to a school of cameralistic science, 

 which was so eagerly pursued in Germany during 

 the latter part of the last, and the beginning of this 

 century. Did Frederick William I., the " Economic 

 King," institute special chairs of cameralistic sci- 

 ence at Halle and Frankfurt chiefly from the motive 

 of training public servants for the economical man- 

 agement of royal estates, so did Count Kuroda found 

 at Sapporo a College with the similar intention of 

 preparing officials for rightly husbanding the re- 

 sources of public domains. In both cases the start- 

 ing point was the watchful solicitude for the public 

 economy of the country. In neither case did the 

 cameralistic science long continue a distinct and 

 independent branch of learning: in Halle it was 

 dissolved into Agriculture and Dendrology, Admi- 

 nistration and Political Economy, while in Sapporo 

 it was concentrated to Agriculture. This is not to 

 be wondered at, when we remember that the main 

 aim and value of the cameralistic science was es- 

 sentially of practical character, and what must be 



