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meals at the boarding-house we infer that they consider the 

 board as good as can be afforded for the moderate price charged, 

 and if we should suggest any alterations as to details it would 

 be to reduce the amount of meat and add more largely vegeta- 

 bles and farinaceous food, and especially unbolted wheat bread, 

 and, in lieu of pastry, substitute fruits of the season. But under 

 the present system tlie person who hires the boarding-house, 

 and is limited as to the price which he shall charge the students 

 who board with him, cannot be expected to do more than give a 

 fair equivalent for such price ; and probably as the products of 

 the farm increase, the trustees who have the oversight of this 

 matter and arc not blind to its importance will contrive some 

 plan by which the students may have a greater variety at the 

 minimum price. But as long as the energetic president of the 

 college has any old apple-trees on the farm to be cut down or 

 any other active emfiloyment for the young men, there will not 

 be much complaint from them about their food, if it is abundant 

 and of good quality. It must not, however, be forgotten that 

 the only mode of providing board for such students as are unable 

 to pay but a small price is by some such regulations as are now 

 enforced on the person keeping the house, and that it is optional 

 witli otlier students whether they board there or elsewhere. 



We commend to the consideration of the trustees the sugges- 

 tions of the Committee of last year as to the boarding-liouse 

 being run under their direction, and have no doubt they will 

 come to a conclusion in consonance with the best interests of 

 the students and the college. 



"No man," said Jefferson, "ever repented of having eaten 

 too little." Students will hardly subscribe to this axiom ; but 

 they do not desire, nor should they have, during their life at 

 college, aught but plain, wholesome fare, similar to what they 

 had at home. Upon a review of our examination of the college 

 and the farm, we are satisfied that great improvements have 

 been and are being made in all the departments, that the stu- 

 dents are not only well taught the theory of th'? various 

 sciences in the class-rooms, but are practically instructed in tlie 

 laboratory, in the field, the garden and the drill-room. The 

 future usefulness of the pupils in agriculture is also held up 

 prominently to their eyes, and tiic kindred sciences taught are 

 necessary adjuncts to its full development, and no more special 



