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In arranging this scheme the committee has had the assistance of the expert 
officers of the Office of Experiment Stations and of Prof. G. P. Merrill, the geologist 
of the Smithsonian Institution. Text-books and specialists in a number of different 
lines have also been consulted. As the result of a conference with Mr. A. F. Woods, 
assistant chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry, who is chairman of a committee 
appointed by the section of botany and horticulture of this association to formulate 
a scheme for courses in botany, it was ascertained that, after an independent study of 
this matter, that committee had reached substantially the same conclusions as had 
our committee as far as the lines of our work coincided, and that both committees 
were in general accord with the scheme proposed by a committee of the Society for 
Plant Morphology and Physiology. Special attention is therefore invited to the 
report presented by Mr. Woods to the section on botany and horticulture. 
The standard series of entrance requirements referred to above is as follows: 
(1) Physical geography. 
i 2) United States history. 
(3) Arithmetic, including the metric system. 
(4) Algebra, to quadratics. 
(5) English grammar and composition, together with the English requirements of 
the New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools. 
(6) Plane geometry. 
(7) One foreign language. 
(8) One of the natural sciences. 
(9) Ancient, general, or English history. 
The general relation of the natural-science courses to those in agriculture and other 
subjects may be seen in the following outline of the agricultural course in college as 
laid down in a previous report of this committee. 
Agricultural course in college. 1 - 1 
Freshmen. 
Sophomores. 
Juniors. 
Seniors. 
Subjects. 
Hours. 
Subjects. 
Hours. 
Subjects. 
Hours. 
Subject-. 
Hours. 
Physics 
150 
150 
155 
120 
180 
Agriculture: 
Zootech...60 
Agron 90 
Meteorology . . . 
Agricultural 
chemistry 
Botany 
English 
Modern lan- 
guage 
Drawing 
} 150 
60 
180 
120 
80 
100 
60 
Agriculture: 
Agron 50 
Zootech..l00 
Geology 
Botany 
Physiology 
Zoology 
Psychology 
Modern lan- 
guage 
} 150 
120 
60 
180 
120 
60 
60 
Agriculture: 
Dairying.. 70 
Farm me- 
chanics .60 
Rural eco- 
nomics.. 60 
Veteri n ary 
medicine 
Horticulture 
and forestry.. 
Historyand po- 
litical econo- 
omy 
Chemistry 
Geometry and 
trigonometry . . 
1 190 
Modern lan- 
guage 
1 
180 
180 
190 
Ethics 
40 
755 
750 
750 
780 
a\ general outline of this course, without reference to its division according to years, was given in 
the second report of this committee. (See U. S. Dept. Agr., Office of Experiment Stations Bui. 19 and 
Circ. 37.) The number of hours assigned to each subject includes the time given to laboratory exer- 
cises, each of which would occupy two hours. Thus, for example, 150 hours of physics may be divided 
into 60 lectures or recitations, and 45 (=90 hours) laboratory exercises. Our committee has not 
attempted to say how the time should be divided between lectures or recitations and laboratory exer- 
cises, but presupposes that a reasonable number of laboratory exercises or practicums will be given 
in all the science courses. 
The arrangement of the college course here suggested proceeds on the assumption 
that it is best for the student to devote his time largely during the firsj. two years to 
language, mathematics, and the fundamental sciences, physics, chemistry, and bot- 
any. He will thus be prepared for a better understanding of the more complex sci- 
ences of agriculture, zoology, animal physiology, and veterinary medicine in the 
second half of his course. 
The course in agriculture has been arranged with reference to taking up first in 
sophomore year some of the simpler topics in zootechny, such as stock judging and 
types of breeds, which do not require scientific knowledge, but are well calculated 
to arouse the interest of the student in agricultural subjects. Agronomy may then 
be taken up systematically and run along with the study of meteorology, agricultural 
chemistry, and botany, and the more scientific study of zootechny may be parallel with 
