28 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



can collect a library, bring together their papers, and feel that 

 they have a home, as a literary society. 



Again, we greatly need rooms for the college library and cab- 

 inet. The present south dormitory is occupied by the cabinet, 

 library, treasurer's office, reading room, and recitation room. 

 All these things must leave that building, or we must have 

 more dormitories before another class can come in. We want 

 a room for the cabinet. It should be in one room, safe from 

 fire, and it should be well arranged and cared for. 



Then, we must have an apparatus room, and a lecture room 

 for the professor of physics and applied mathematics. He must 

 have a place where he can keep his apparatus and give his lec- 

 tures. In the same building, on the lower floor, we want rooms 

 for lectures upon agriculture and an agricultural museum, 

 where we can collect agricultural implements, models, agricul- 

 tural products, and whatsoever is of interest to those who are 

 studying agriculture. We want them convenient, so that when 

 we take our lecturers into the agricultural lecture room to lec- 

 ture upon particular subjects, they can there find all the means 

 of illustration. 



Then, the building that has been built this summer as a dor- 

 mitory has underneath a commodious basement, one-half of 

 which should be fitted up as a bathing-room, and the other as a 

 tool-room, where the students can keep their hoes, axes, rakes, 

 and such other small tools as are designed for daily use. They 

 want them here, ready to their hands. They do not want to go 

 off to the barn, because their work may be in the other direc- 

 tion. They should have their tools right where they keep 

 themselves. 



In regard to our educational wants, I desire to add simply 

 this: We need these additional accommodations in order to 

 make room for more students, and to enable us to carry out 

 our course of instruction. Then we want scientific apparatus. 

 We have professors, we have students, we have a laboratory, 

 but we have nothing with which to buy scientific apparatus. 

 We want money to buy chemical, philosophical, engineering 

 and surveying apparatus. We want books of reference, to be 

 kept in the library, with the books which some gentlemen have 

 so kindly and generously given us, and which some other gentle- 



