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Farm, Wm. Wheeler, C. E., as Professor of Mathe- 

 matics and Civil Engineering, David P. Penhallow, 

 B. S., as Professor of Botany and Chemistry, Seitaro 

 Hori, Secretary and Interpreter, and of K. Yoshida 

 as Farm Overseer. The arrival soon after of Wil- 

 liam Penn Brooks, B. S., as Professor of Agriculture 

 and successor to Dr. Clark as Superintendent of the 

 Farm, was an important addition to the teaching 

 staff. 



The number of students was restricted to fifty on 

 account of the limited appropriations made by the 

 government. All the successful candidates were to 

 be educated at government expense, board, room, 

 clothing and stationary all included. Such an ar- 

 rangement was necessary at the time, seeing that 

 the life and work in the Hokkaido offered but little 

 attraction in the form of any immediate return. 

 Moreover, as the primary aim of the institution was 

 to train select young men for civil service and as far 

 as possible to make their residence in the Island sure, 

 an obligation was in this way imposed upon them. 

 As to the mere number of students, therefore, it was 

 only of subsidiary moment. The successful candi- 

 dates for admission were required to sign an agree- 

 ment with the authorities to serve in the Colonial 

 Office for five years after graduation, and to transfer 

 their domicile from their respective provinces to the 

 Hokkaido. The course of study (which will be 

 given in details in another part of the paper) cover- 

 ed four years, and comprised those branches of 

 knowledge which were deemed necessary to make 

 efficient officials and exemplary pioneers. As pub- 

 lished in the Plan of Organization, " It was the aim 



