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carried out; and, if the experiment should by any possibility now 

 fail, it would be owing, not to any lack of applications from the 

 class whose instruction is had in view, nor from any want of 

 energy or ability on the part of the trustees, presidents or teach- 

 ers of the college, but solely from a want of accommodations 

 for the tendered pupils. No educated and interested observer 

 of this institution can fail to note that a four-years' course is 

 barely sufficient to perfect the students in the necessary learn- 

 ing for the objects in view ; and that, if sufficient accommoda- 

 tions are alTordcd, the college will be filled by large classes, 

 while, as the number of pupils increases, the expenses of the 

 institution will be met by a corresponding increase of resources. 

 We hope to see this institution put upon a complete and solid 

 footing. At present, since it has no wealthy alumni to appeal to, 

 and the people for whose sons its instruction is intended are, in 

 the main, of very moderate means, its only reliance is, in the 

 outset of its career, upon the beneficence of the whole commu- 

 nity represented in the legislature, and we do not believe tliat 

 community will desire that an experiment which has been so 

 far successful shall now fail for need of that support which, 

 if not expressly promised, was impliedly vouched for at its 

 inception. 



At the proper time, we trust a professorship of veterinary 

 science will be added to the college, and the diseases and treat- 

 ment of the horse and other domestic animals be so taught 

 that we shall have a class of men among us qualified to treat 

 the ills of those animals in a scientific and humane manner, and 

 the present system of quackery and inhumanity be abolished. 



Louis Agassiz. 



Richard Goodman. 



Eliphalet Stone. 



Mr. Bradford was appointed a committee on credentials of 

 new members. 



Mr. MooRE submitted the following essay upon 



MARKET GARDENING. 

 Market gardening or the growing of vegetables, for the pur- 

 pose of supplying the demand for such articles in our cities 

 and large towns, is a subject worthy of our careful consideration, 



