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 shops, fields, gardens, vineyard, orchard, pastures, dairies and other laboratories.

By relying upon text books as little as possible and leading the student to seek information directly from observation and experiment.

By inculcating the dignity of intelligent labor—banishing the idea that the farmer or mechanic who is worthy of the name need be any less learned than the professional man.

By inducing in the mind of the student an enthusiastic love of nature and the study of natural laws, whereby agricultural and mechanical processes become invested with absorbing interest, and are pursued in a spirit which leads to progress and success.

This furnishes the chief means of training students in accordance with these aims and hence a most important subsidiary object of this institution is the discovery and dissemination of all sorts of information with regard to industrial pursuits.

It is taken for granted that every farmer boy can learn at home such things as involve mere manual drudgery. It must therefore be understood that the student will not be required to waste valuable time in labor which is not instructive.

The education here given to young men is not intended to make mere laborers of them in the ordinary sense of the word. A student who graduates here may begin life as a field hand; but it is expected that, by virtue of his superior training, he shall be able speedily to find promotion and easily fill the highest position of honor to which his ability may lead him.

This is embraced by law in the objects of the College, and will be given such attention as is necessary for an honest compliance with the act of Congress.

The government of the College is vested in a board of