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subjects, from which one unit may be offered for entrance to 

 any course in the college of arts and science leading to the 

 bachelor's degree. But the high-school agricultural course must 

 first be approved by the university high-school visitor. 



Nebraska. In the University of Nebraska, a half-year's credit 

 will be allowed for agriculture offered for entrance into any 

 course leading to the A. B. or B. S. degrees or to the degrees 

 in pharmacy. 



California. The University of California will accept a half- 

 year's work in dairying if presented with chemistry, or a half- 

 year's work in horticulture if presented with botany, providing 

 the agricultural subjects follow their accompanying sciences dur- 

 ing the third or fourth years of the high-school course. In order 

 to encourage introductory science in the first year of the high 

 school, the university will credit a year's course, the outline of 

 which recommends, among other topics, " such elementary scien- 

 tific principles as are involved in gardening, including a study 

 of soils, and elementary physiography, the weather, simple ma- 

 chinery, including the steam engine, . . ." 



New York. Cornell University has left the question in abey- 

 ance until it " should become a practical one through an appli- 

 cation for admission to our college by some candidate proposing 

 to offer the subject of agriculture. On the existing state of the 

 facts such a candidate [in arts and science] would unquestion- 

 ably be credited with that subject. Whether we should then 

 continue to accept it or should take action similar to that already 

 taken by the law and engineering colleges [refusing to accept 

 it], I am unable to say." 



Alabama. " The entrance requirements of the University of 

 Alabama are now being modified so as to include agriculture. 

 Next fall [1909] one unit may be presented for admission." 



Georgia. One or two years of work in agriculture may be 

 presented for entrance to any department on a par with other 

 sciences. 



Tennessee. The 1908 catalogue of the University of Tennes- 

 see gives one "point" (Carnegie Foundation value) for agri- 

 culture. The requirements include an elementary text, such as 



