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VERMONT UNIVERSITY AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

BURLINGTON.

VERMONT was entitled to five portions, or 150,000 acres in scrip. By an act of the Legislature, in 1864, the Vermont Agricultural College was established but by subsequent legislation this new institution was incorporated with the University of Vermont at Burlington, founded in 1791, and a plan was matured by which the Colleges at Middlebury and at Norwich might also become members of the State University. At present only the two first named institutions have been united. The first meeting of the Trustees was held Nov. 20, 1865, and on the 18th of July following, James B. Angell of Providence, was elected President.

FACULTY.

The Faculty of the entire University is as follows:

JAMES BURRILL ANGELL, A. M., President; Rev. JOSEPH TORREY, D. D., Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy; SAMUEL WHITE THAYER, M. D., Professor of General and Special Anatomy; WALTER CARPENTER, M. D., Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and Materia Medica; Rev. MCKENDREE PETTY, A. M., Williams Professor of Mathematics; LEONARD MARSH, A. M., M. D., Professor of Vegetable and Animal Physiology; JOSEPH PERKINS, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children; MATTHEW HENRY BUCKHAM, A. M., Professor of the Greek Language and Literature, and Professor pro tempore of English Literature; HENRY M. SHELLEY, M. D., Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology; CHARLES WHEELER THOMPSON, A. M., Professor pro tempore of Latin; JOHN ORDRONAUX, M. D., LL. B., Professor of Physiol ogy, Pathology and Medical Jurisprudence; ALPHEUS BENNING CROSBY, M. D., Professor of Principles and Practice of Surgery; ELI WHITNEY BLAKE, Jr., A. B., Professor pro tempore of Chemistry and Physics; JAMES HARVey Hills, Instructor in Drawing.

CLASSES OF STUDENTS.

The Scientific Department of the College is organized on the following basis. Instruction will be provided

I. For students who wish to pursue a course of three years in Analytical and Agricultural Chemistry, or in Civil Engineering, or in Mining and Metallurgy, and to become candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Science. By a four years' study, hereafter described, Bachelors of Science may attain to the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy.

II. For students who do not desire to take a full course of three years, or of four years, but wish to pursue certain portions of the course.

III. For young men who desire to obtain such instruction as can be furnished them by a course of lectures specially adapted to the wants of agriculturists, and to be given in February and March.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION.

Applicants for admission to the Agricultural College must be at least fifteen years of age, and must bring satisfactory testimonials of good character, and be able to sustain an examination in all the parts of a common school education, and particularly in English Grammar, Geography, Arithmetic, and Algebra as far as Quadratic Equations.

COURSE OF STUDIES FOR CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES.

The courses marked out for the candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Science occupy three years, and those for the candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy occupy four years. During the first year all the students pursue the same course. At the beginning of the second year they will select one of three prescribed courses for the following year, and will not be allowed to change from one course to another except by special permission of the Faculty. Examinations will be held in the same manner as in the Academic course.

FIRST YEAR.

For all Sections.

First Term.-Algebra; Chemistry; Free Drawing; Book-keeping.
Second Term.-Geometry; Chemistry; French.

Third Term.-Geometry; Chemistry; French.

English, Compositions and Declamations through the year.

Section of Analytical and Agricultural Chemistry.

SECOND YEAR.

Chemistry-Laboratory Practice, Applications to Agriculture, Analyses of Soils, Relations of Soils to Vegetable Productions, etc., etc. MathematicsTrigonometry, Analytical Geometry. Mineralogy. Vegetable Anatomy and Physiology, including Botany, Forestry, etc.; Animal Anatomy and Physiology, Habits of Domestic Animals, Insects injurious to Vegetation, etc. Geology. English, Composition and Drawing. Advanced French (elective.)

THIRD YEAR.

Chemistry-Laboratory Practice, Mineral Analyses, etc. German, through the year. Mechanics, Optics, Astronomy. Physical Geography, Metallurgy. English, Compositions. Drawing.

Engineering Section.

(First Year-see above.)

SECOND YEAR.

Mathematics--Trigonometry, Descriptive Geometry, Calculus.

German,

through the year. Field Engineering; Drawing, Topographical, Mechanical and Architectural. Mineralogy, Geology. English, Compositions. Advanced French (elective) two or three times a week.

THIRD YEAR.

Mechanics, Optics, Astronomy. Mechanics applied to Engineering. Physical Geography, Metallurgy. Drawing. English, Compositions.

Section of Mining and Metallurgy.

(First Year-see above.)

SECOND YEAR.

Mathematics-Trigonometry, Descriptive Geometry. Mineralogy. German, through the year. Drawing-Mechanical and Architectural. Vegetable and Animal Physiology, (see section of Analyt. and Agr. Chemistry.) English, Compositions.

THIRD YEAR.

Mechanics, Optics, Astronomy, Geology. Lectures on Mining and Metallurgy, Laboratory Practice, Analysis of Minerals, Assaying, Drawing. Compositions. Those who have passed their examinations on any one of the above courses, shall receive the degree of Bachelor of Science. Those who, after attaining the degree of Bachelor of Science, shall successfully pursue the studies of the Senior Class in the Academic course, (the classics being excepted,) or advanced studies in the Scientific Department for one year, shall receive the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy.

SPECIAL COURSES.

Those who do not desire to pursue a full course in the Agricultural College, will be permitted to pursue such portions of the course as with the advice and approval of the Faculty they may select, and may be properly prepared to undertake. Special facilities in laboratory practice will thus be afforded to those who are pursuing a course of study in the Medical Department of the University.

LECTURES FOR FARMERS.

To meet the wants of young men, who cannot leave their homes in the summer or autumn, a special course of lectures on Agricultural subjects will be given in February and March, provided there is sufficient demand for such a course to justify the establishment of it. No examination will be required for attendance upon this course. Among the topics treated will be Agricultural Chemistry and Physiology, Agricultural Zoology, Physical Geography, etc. A special fee, hereafter to be announced, will be charged for attendance on these lectures.

MILITARY TACTICS.

Provision will be made for military drill and instruction in tactics.

REGULATIONS.

The students in the Agricultural College (except the young men who are attending only the course of lectures to farmers) are required to attend prayers in the chapel, and are in every respect subject to the same rules of order and discipline as the students in the Academic department.

EXPENSES.

Tuition, $15 per term. Room and rent incidentals as before.

Those who pursue the Laboratory courses, must also incur an additional expense of about $40 a year for chemicals, breakage, etc.

GENERAL REMARKS.

The Corporation are determined to make the course of instruction in both departments of the institution thorough and complete. The Chemical Laboratory, the Philosophical Apparatus, the collections made to illustrate the physical sciences, already afford large facilities for instruction, but the increasing wants of the institution will be promptly met. The corps of Professors and Instructors will be enlarged, as the needs of the University may require. While care is taken to meet the wants of those young men who cannot pursue a full course in either the Academic or the Agricultural department, it is the aim of the Corporation to maintain the highest standard of discipline and culture in the regular Academic course, and to provide for a full, systematic and rigorous course of scientific study.

IOWA STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE AND MODEL FARM.

STORY COUNTY.

HISTORY.

IN 1858 the Legislature passed an act (March 22) appropriating $10,000 for the purchase of a farm on which to locate an Agricultural College, and at the same time entrusted its management to a Board of Trustees, of thirteen members, one from each Judicial District, and the Governor, and President of the State Agricultural Society. They are to serve for four years without pay, but are allowed mileage. The terms of one half of the Board will expire May 1, 1868, and of the other half two years later.

The county of Story donated $10,000 in the bonds of the county bearing 7 per cent. interest, and individuals gave in bonds and notes about $7,000 more. The Legislature in the act of 1858, also gave five sections of land in Jaspar county originally granted by Congress for the building of a capital, out of which the College has realized $14,000.

The two hundred and forty thousand acres assigned to the State of Iowa by the act of Congress of July 2, 1862, were appropriated by the Legislature (March 29, 1866) to the "State Agricultural College and Model Farm.

The scrip was located within the State by an agent whom the Trustees appointed, and the lands have since been offered for sale or for lease. The plan of leasing for ten years has been preferred. The lands selected on the government scrip are valued at $480,000.

The Agricultural College was located in Story County, thirty miles due north from the capital of the State, on a farm of 640 acres, situated about midway between Nevada and Boonsboro, bought with a legislative appropriation of $10,000. Prior to the reception of the National grant the institution had acquired in various ways a fund of $30,000 in land, bonds, &c., after the purchase of the site and erection of a farm house. Subsequent to the bestowal of the National endowment, the Legislature, in 1864, appropriated $20,000 for the erection of a college building, and in 1866 the sum of $91,000 for the same

purpose.

The College building will have sufficient accommodation for the board, lodgment and tuition of 200 students, and the requisite Professors. The structure is five stories high, one hundred and fifty-six feet in length, by seventy in width, the wings being capable of extension if additional room should be required.

The Faculty, course of study, &c., are yet to be determined. A committee consisting of Gov. W. Stone, Lt. Gov. Gue, and Peter Melendy, President of the State Agricultural Society, were appointed to visit the agricultural and other scientific industrial institutions of other States, inquire into their operations, and nominate a President and Faculty for the Iowa College.

WISCONSIN COLLEGE OF ARTS-STATE UNIVERSITY.

MADISON.

HISTORY.

THE State University of Wisconsin, located at Madison, was established in 1851, on the basis of the United States University land-grant of 46,000 acres. Out of this grant a "University fund" of $300,000 was realized, the income of which by the Constitution of the State should be appropriated to the support of the University-but the productive capital has been practically diminished by the purchase of land and the erection of buildings, to the amount of over $100,000; and in addition, the State charges to the income of this fund $1,000, as the cost of its management, thereby diminishing the annual income at least $3,000-enough to secure at least three or four additional professors.

Of the National land-grant for Agricultural Colleges, two hundred and forty thousand acres constituted the amount appropriated to Wisconsin. Up to 1867, little more than $8,000 had been received from this source; though the scrip had been located in the State on lands valued in the aggregate at $300,000. In April, 1866, the Legislature decided to reorganize and enlarge the State University, and to establish two Colleges in it, the College of Arts, and the College of Letters. The income of the College land-scrip fund and the income of the University fund, were both appropriated to this institution, making an aggregate of property, (including land unsold,) valued at $706,773, with an annual available income for the present of about $13,000.

TRUSTEES.

The Regents of the University for 1867-8, are as follows:

J. B. PARKINSON, Fayette; AUG. L. SMITH, Appleton; B. R. HINKLEY, Oconomowoc; SAMUEL FALLOWS, Milwaukee; JACOB S. BUGH, Berlin-terms expire in 1868. EDWARD SALOMON, Milwaukee; ANGUS CAMERON, La Crosse; C. S. HAMILTON, Fond Du Lac; H. C. HOBART, Milwaukee; N. B. VAN SLYKE, Madison-terms expire in 1869. JNO. G. McMYNN, Racine; F. O. THORPE, West Bend; R. B. SANDERSON, Poynette; J. C. COVER, Lancaster; HENRY D. BARRON, St. Croix Falls-terms expire in 1870. THOMAS S. ALLEN, Secretary of State, ex-officio Secretary; W. E. SMITH; State Treasurer, ex-officio Treasurer.

FACULTY.

The Faculty of the same year are as follows:

PAUL A. CHADBOURNE, M. D., President, and Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy; JOHN W. STERLING, LL. D., Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy; EZRA S. CARR, LL. D., Professor of Chemistry and Natural History; Professor of Agriculture; T. N. HASKELL, A. M., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature; WILLIAM F. ALLEN, A. M., Professor of Ancient Languages and History; JOHN P. FUCHS, M. D., Professor of Modern Languages and Literature; JOHN P. PARKINSON, A. M., Professor of Mathemat ics; R. E. HARMON, A. B., Tutor.

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