548 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Summer Term, 



Civil Engineering. — Practical work with instruments in measuring 



heights and distances. Plane and topographical surveying, level- 

 ling, construction of railroad curves, embankments and excava- 

 tions, drainage, etc. 



Zoology. — Introductory lessons by means of specimens. Systems of 

 classification. The analytic study of typical forms of animal life. 



German. — Rau. Die Grundlage der Modernen Chemie. Oral and 

 written exercises. 



HORTICUL TUiJE. — Cultivation and propagation of fruits. Lectures, with 

 oral and written abstracts. 



Sophomores who do not study "Agriculture" and " HorticuHure," 

 elect Gei'man. 



Junior Year. 



Fall Term. 



Mechanics. — Lectures. Oral and written abstracts. Dana's Mechanics. 



English Literature. — Lectures on the early history of the English 

 Nation and formation of the language. Study of the early litera- 

 ture. 



Geology. — Instruction given by lectures, by text-books, and by constant 

 field work in the study of rocks and geological formations, with 

 particular reference to the recognition of the characteristics of the 

 different periods of geological history, and the application of the 

 facts gained, to agriculture, as related to the formation, composi- 

 tion and characteristics of soils. 



Latin. 



Horticulture. — Market gardening and floriculture. Entomology, with 

 special reference to injurious and beneficial insects. Packard's 

 Guide to Study of Insects. 



Wiiiler Term. 



Physics and Analytical Geometry. — Atkinson's Ganot's Physics, 

 new edition. Loomis's Analytical Geometry. 



English Literature. — Study of Shakespeare. Lectures on the his- 

 toric epochs in connection with the text-book. Original theses. 



Chemistry. — Instruction in the laboratory, with recitations. Blow- 

 pipe analysis, with the di^termination of the characteristics of the 

 more common metals and minerals. Determination of unknown 

 substances. Humid analysis. Determination of characteristics of 

 all the commonly occurring elements. Determination of bases 

 and acids in known compounds. 



Latin. 



Agriculture. — Soils; farm implements; manures; rotatioa of crops. 



