veterinary physicians, finished farmers, and mechanical and civil engineers.

THE VETERINARY SCHOOL.

The Veterinary School, which occupies spacious rooms in the new North Hall, is supplied with abundant facilities for doing its peculiar work thoroughly. Its arrangements for regular clinical instruction are complete, its course of lectures are full and comprehensive, and the faculty is composed of able and accomplished men. We believe that this school, the only one in the West, meets an urgent public necessity, and as soon as the advantages it offers are fully known, its halls will be crowded with students. It has already several graduates.

THE SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE.

The School of Agriculture presents a course of instruction in its line which cannot be surpassed either in its practical or its scientific character by any similar school in this country. Its attractive rooms are now in the new North Hall; its apparatus includes the nurseries, vineyards, propagating rooms, all the adjuncts of the vegetable garden; the fine stock, comprising cattle, horses, sheep, swine, and fowls, the experimentations in agriculture and horticulture now systematically conducted on a large scale, and all the numerous operations by which successful farming is now carried on. The special faculty of the School of Agriculture are men of large experience-men who combine scientific knowledge with actual skill, and whose instructions constantly point to practical results.

The urgent demand throughout the country for professors of agriculture and superintendents of large farms, will, it is believed, be supplied hereafter to some extent by the graduates of this school.

THE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING.

This school contains two departments, that of Mechanical and that of Civil Engineering, both of which have been in operation for the last twelve years, and sent many graduates out into the State. The course of professional studies in this school is strong and thorough, the professors able and earnest, the practice accurate and extensive, and the equipment comprises all the latest improvements in instruments and machinery.

THE GENERAL COLLEGE COURSE.

The general course is composed of such branches as conduce to liberal culture, and, at the same time, give a broad preparation for the future activities. It furnishes, in symmetrical completeness, such available knowledge as will serve as a basis for the work of the physician, druggist, merchant, teacher, journalist, etc. In short, the general course enables the student to attain the mastery of the principles underlying the enterprises by which the world is actually advancing. It aims to bring men into active sympathy with all human interests, and while gaining a liberal education, to become efficient as workers and influential as citizens. Since the sciences on which many of the industries rest are prominent in this course, it is called the General Course in Sciences related to the Industries.

Subjoined are the professors, teachers and other officers now employed.

A. S. WELCH, PRESIDENT,

Professor of Psychology and Sociology.

GEN. J. L. GEDDES, VICE-PRESIDENT,

Professor of Military Tactics and Engineering.

W. H. WYNN,

Professor of English Literature, and Science of Language.

C. E. BESSEY,

Professor of Botany.

A. THOMSON,

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Superintendent of Workshop.

E. W. STANTON,

Professor of Mathematics, and Political Economy.

S. A. KNAPP,

Professor of Practical and Experimental Agriculture.

D. S. FAIRCHILD,

Professor of Pathology, Histology, and Therapeutics.

MRS. MARY B. WELCH,

Lecturer on Domestic Economy.

MARTHA SINCLAIR, PRECEPTRESS,

Instructor in English, French, and German.

C. F. MOUNT,

Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering.

HERBERT OSBORN,

Assistant in Zoology and Entomology.

FREMONT TURNER,

Foreman, and Teacher in the Workshop.

E. D. HARVEY,

Assistant in the Chemical Laboratory.

J. C. HAINER,

Instructor in Mathematics and Book-keeping.

GEO. C. FAVILLE,

Assistant in Veterinary Medicine.

ERMINA ATHEARN,

Teacher of Instrumental and Vocal Music.

H. D. HARLOW,

Proctor.

The per cent of industrial pursuits represented by parents who have sent their children to the Agricultural College for 1880 and 1881:

CHANGE SUGGESTED IN THE COLLEGE YEAR.

It has been evident for several years that the first of March which is the day on which the college year begins, is unfavorable to the gathering of a freshman class. While the entire college year should continue to occupy the same months as heretofore, leaving the long vacation to occur in winter, the middle of September would be far more convenient for the admission of new students. The summer schools in which students are prepared for our freshman class, very generally close before the first of September, while at the date of our present opening, the winter schools are still in session.

Moreover the college commencement which now occurs during the wet days and bad roads of November, would, under the arrangement