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managed to get there, you could not get away. Now, we are 

 within three-quarters of a mile of a railroad depot, at which six 

 trains a day stop, so that we have abundant opportunity to go 

 there and to get away. There is no trouble in getting to 

 Amherst or in getting away. 



I located myself upon the farm the first of April. At that 

 time, we had no buildings ; the first blow, in fact, had not been 

 struck. We have erected the past season, in the first place, a 

 large dormitory building, four stories high, 100 x 50. The 

 lower story is divided into recitation-room, reading-room, and 

 cabinet ; the three upper stories are rooms for the students, of 

 which we have twenty-four, designed for two students each ; 

 giving each two students a sitting-room or parlor, 15 x 16 ; 

 each of them a fine bed-room ; each of them a fine clothes-press 

 or wardrobe. These are the accommodations we give our 

 students. We have erected a laboratory, so-called, in which is 

 to be placed the chemical apparatus of the professor of chem- 

 istry, and which is to be the working chemical-room. In the 

 upper story, we have a dining-hall, 50 X 16, where it is pro- 

 posed by the trustees of the institution, that all the boys shall 

 take their meals, if they desire it. We have erected a conven- 

 ient botanical building, with a recitation-room for the class in 

 botany, on the lower floor, and a specimen-room for the recep- 

 tion of all sorts of specimens in the hall above it. We have 

 erected a large conservatory, 100 X 70, with propagating pits, 

 and all the conveniences of the best modern houses. 



These are the buildings which have been erected during the 

 past year. You will see from what I have stated with refer- 

 ence to our dormitory building, that the trustees have laid a 

 plan for a college of forty-eight students, and yet to-day, the 

 college building is full. Our term commenced the 2d of 

 October, and we have a Freshman class of forty-sis, with the 

 prospect of double the number for the next class. One of the 

 rooms is occupied by a professor, so that we are now full. 



The question is often asked, " What are the terms of admis- 

 sion ? " The candidate for admission is examined in the com- 

 mon English branches, reading, writing, spelling, geography, 

 and arithmetic, and we mean that the examination shall be 

 thorough and exhaustive ; that the students shall be thorough 

 m those branches before they come there. We do not examine 



