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degree will fill three years. The instruction of the first year's course 

 will be given at the Lawrence Scientific School, in Cambridge, and 

 students of the first year must live in or near Cambridge. The instruc- 

 tion of the second and third years' courses will be given at the Bussey 

 Institution, and students of the second and third years must live near 

 the Institution, which is situated in the town of West Roxbury, near 

 the village of Jamaica Plain, about five miles south-west of Boston, 

 and close to the Forest Hills station on the Boston and Providence 

 Railroad. 



" Candidates for admission to the first year of the regular course of 

 the school must be at least seventeen years of age, and must present 

 testimonials of good moral character ; they will be examined in Arith- 

 metic, Algebra, as far as quadratic equations, English Grammar, and 

 Geography. Candidates for admission to the second year of the regular 

 course must be at least eighteen years of age, and must present testi- 

 monials of good moral character ; they will be examined upon the 

 studies of the first year in addition to the above-mentioned subjects." 



Besides the regular course of three years, students are admitted to 

 special courses on Farming, Horticulture, Agricultural Chemistry, 

 Domestic Animals, and Entomology. To three of these courses, viz.. 

 Horticulture, Agricultural Chemistry, and Entomology, female as well 

 as male students are admitted. 



The Bussey Institution will serve not only for purposes of instruction, 

 but also for experiment. It will investigate the nature and effects of 

 artificial fertilizers, the most sure and economical methods of pro- 

 ducing them, their application to various soils, and their influence on 

 different crops ; the best modes of regenerating exhausted soils, and 

 improving bad ones, with other points where science may be brought to 

 bear with advantage on subjects of practical agriculture. By a series 

 of experiments, aided by analysis, it is hoped to arrive at a precise 

 knowledge in relation to chemical manures, and point out to cultivators 

 how and when they may be used with safety and advantage. 



The hoiiicultural department of the school will be a prominent 

 feature in it. Special attention will be given to the art of propagating 

 plants, and of obtaining new varieties by hybridization and other 

 methods. The horticultural courses will be open to both sexes, and 

 students are invited to make use, to any extent they may desire, of the 

 facilities afforded for the practice of horticultural operations. The in- 

 struction will be of a practical character, and the affording of oppor- 

 tunities for exercising observation and acquiring manual skill will be 

 an essential part of it. 



