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Separate institutions of this class are maintained for coloured 

 students in 16 States. A similar institution maintained 

 by State and private funds is the well-known Tuskegee Normal 

 and Industrial Institute in Alabama. 



Colleges of agriculture (or equivalent schools or departments) 

 in universities are maintained with the aid of national funds in 

 Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, 

 Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, 

 Nevada, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia, 

 Wisconsin and Wyoming. In Massachusetts, Harvard College 

 has a school of agriculture called the Bussey Institution. 



In nearly all of these institutions the college course in agri- 

 culture extends over four or five years. In cases where more 

 than four years are required, an extra year or two has been 

 added to prepare students for admission to the regular course. 

 In some cases students are admitted directly from the common 

 schools, while in others the entrance requirements are on a level 

 with those for admission to other college courses in high grade 

 colleges. Entrance requirements are, however, being gradually 

 raised in many colleges which formerly took students from 

 the common schools. 



The course at the Massachusetts Agricultural College may be 

 considered typical of relatively high-grade college courses in 

 agriculture in America. Candidates for admission must be 

 at least 16 years old and are required to pass examinations 

 in English, general history, physiology, physical geography, 

 algebra (including quadratics), plane geometry and civil govern- 

 ment. The student must follow a definitely prescribed curri- 

 culum for two years, after which he is allowed to select one of the 

 following courses : — Agriculture, horticulture, biology, chemistry, 

 mathematics, and landscape gardening. In " freshman " year 

 the following subjects are included in the course : — Agriculture, 

 botany, chemistry, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, English, 

 French, military tactics, and history. In " sophomore " year: — 

 Agriculture, horticulture, zoology, chemistry, English, and 

 German. In "junior" year the student follows one of the 

 prescribed courses mentioned above, and in "senior" year 

 together with military science, bacteriology and United States 

 constitutional law, he must take at least three optional 

 subjects closely correlated with his junior year course, which 



