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We present at foot of preceding page the perspective, and below the plans of the basement and first floor of the Barn recently erected on the Stock Farm of the Industrial University. The barn has a north and west front of 80 feet each Each limb, or ell, is 40 feet wide. It is of the kind known as a side hill barn.

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to be furnished with a steam boiler to steam food, and to run a small engine to furnish power for grinding, threshing and cutting. D is a set of hog pens, and E another set of pens or yard under the shed which extends along both

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In the plan of the first floor, B B are bridges. T T T show trap doors in the rear of horse stalls to allow droppings to be thrown into manure pit. L shows a series of box stalls for breeding mares. GG grain bins. M a harness room. Pa large ventilating tube or flue, leading from cattle room below to the cap above the roof. There are doors in the sides of this flue, through which hay can be thrown down for feeding the cattle.

Above the main floor are ample hay lofts.

The foundation walls are of heavy stone work.

PROPERTY AND FUNDS.

Besides the lands and buildings already described, which are with furniture, library, etc., valued at $216,000, the University owns 25,000 acres of well selected wild lands in Minnesota and Nebraska. It has also endowment funds, invested in State and county bonds, amounting to $364,000, besides other property and avails valued at $50,000.

LIBRARY.

The Library, which has been carefully selected to aid the scientific studies required in the several practical courses, includes now about 5,000 volumes, and an appropriation of $10,000 has just been made by the General Assembly for its increase. The large Library Hall is fitted up as a reading room, and richly provided with American, English, French and German papers and periodicals, embracing the most important scientific and art publications, monthlies, quarterlies, etc. The reading room, well warmed and lighted, is open every day and evening, and is constantly resorted to by the faculty and students. The following are some of the periodicals regularly received by the library :

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"Its leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the states may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life."-Act of Congress 1862, Sec. 4.

"The Trustees shall have power to provide the requisite buildings, apparatus and conveniences; to fix the rates of tuition; to appoint such professors and instructors, and establish and provide for the management of such model farms, model art, and other departments and professorships, as may be required to teach, in the most thorough manner, such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, and military tactics, without excluding other scientific and classical studies.-Act of General Assembly 1867, Sec. 7.

In accordance with the two acts above quoted, and under which the University is organized, it holds as its principal aim to offer freely the most thorough instruction which its liberal means will provide, in all the branches of learning useful in the industrial arts, or necessary to "the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes, in the several pursuits or professions in life." It includes in this, all useful learning-scientific and classical-all that belongs to sound and thorough scholarship.

It aims to make the fields of learning free to all, and all free, that whoever comes may learn what he wills.

It aims also to make learning practical. It would avoid the endless, and often useless study of books-of countless words and theorizings— and unite theory and practice, making books subservient to the practical knowledge of things. In its methods it employs the hand and eye, as well as the brain of the student, to the fullest extent, and seeks to fit him to act as well as to think.

Its practical aims will be best understood by a survey of the following departments of instruction, for which it offers the best facilities:

1. Scientific Agriculture, embracing Soil Culture in all its varieties, and for all crops, Animal Husbandry, Stock breeding, feeding, etc., Veterinary Science, Agricultural Chemistry, Rural Engineering and Drainage of lands,

2. Horticulture, including Market Gardening, Fruit Growing, Management of Nurseries, Forests, Green Houses, Propagating Houses, and Ornamental Grounds.

3. Mechanical Engineering, Theory and practice in construction of machinery, pattern making and working in iron and brass. Study of the Motors, Strength of Materials, and Mechanical Drawing.

4. Civil Engineering, including Land and Government Surveys, Railroads, Canals, Bridge Building, Topographical Surveys and Leveling.

5. Mining Engineering, embracing Mine Surveys, Sinking and Tubing of Shafts, driving of Adits, and methods of working; Assaying, Treatment of Ores, and Metallurgy.

6. English Language and Literature. A thorough and extended course in higher Grammar, Rhetoric, Criticism and Essay Writing, to fit students for editorial or other literary work, or teaching.

7. Analytical Chemistry. Chemistry applied to the Arts, Laboratory practice with reagents, blow-pipe, and spectroscope. A full course, to fit students to become Chemists, Druggists and Pharmaceutists.

8. Architecture. Architectural Drawing, Styles of Building, Plans, Materials, Estimates, Ornamentation.

9. Military Tactics. Manual of Arms, Squad, Company and Battalion Drill, Brigade and Division Evolutions, Bayonet and Sword Fencing, Military Arms, Roads and Fortifications. 10. History and Social Science, Political Economy, Rural and Constitutional Law.

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Mental and Moral Philosophy, and Logic.

Modern and Ancient Languages. French, German, Latin and Greek.
Commercial Science, Book Keeping, Commercial Law, etc.

Mathematical Science, Pure and Applied, Natural Philosophy, Astronomy.

15. Natural History, Botany, Zoology, Geology, Physical Geography.

FREEDOM IN CHOICE OF STUDIES.

The University being designed, not for children, but for young men and women who may claim to know something of their own wants, powers and tastes, entire freedom in choice of studies, is allowed to each student, subject only to such necessary conditions as the progress of the classes, or the convenience in teaching, requires. It is not thought useful or right to urge every student, without regard to his capacity, taste or practical wants, to take entire some lengthened curriculum, or "course of studies." Liberty every where has its risks and responsibilities as well as its benefits-in schools as well as in society.; but it is yet to be proved that compulsory scholarship is necessarily better, riper and more certain than that which is free and self-inspired. Each student is exhorted to weigh carefully his own powers and needs, to counsel freely with his teachers, to choose with serious and independent consideration, the branches he may need to fit him for his chosen career, and then to pursue them with earnestness and perseverance, without faltering or fickleness.

It is necessarily required: 1st, That students shall be thoroughly prepared to enter and keep pace with the classes in the studies chosen; and 2d, That they shall take these studies in the terms in which they are taught in course.

It is expected that each student shall have three distinct studies, affording three class exercises each day. But on special request to the Faculty, be may be allowed less or more, to meet the exigencies of his course.

No change in studies can be made after the beginning of a term, without permission of the Faculty.

It is recognized that students will often need advice in the selection of studies and in the arrangement of a proper course. To meet this need the Faculty have carefully arranged several courses of studies which may be wisely followed by those who have no special reasons for diverging from them.

Due care will be taken to prevent, as far as possible, all abuse of the liberty of choice. Students failing to pass satisfactory examinations in their chosen studies, will not be permitted to remain and take other studies without a vote of the Faculty.

DEPARTMENTS AND COLLEGES.

Heretofore the courses of instruction have been exhibited only under the headings of the several Departments. It is found desirable, in order to afford a clearer view of the actual work of the University, to add the sub-divisions into Colleges. This implies no change in the character or plan of the University, but only the adoption of a usage now common in the American Universities, to exhibit more impressively the several courses of studies.

A Department embraces a single branch of study, taught usually by a single professor and his assistants, as the Department of English Literature, or of Mathematics.

A College includes a combined course, made up of the several branches needful for some one calling or profession. Thus, in the older universities, there were Medical Colleges and Law Schools, and in the new Industrial or Polytechnic Universities, are found Colleges of Agriculture, of Engineering, of Mechanical Science, etc.

Under the following several Departments will be found an exhibit of the nature and extent of the instruction afforded in each of the several branches of learning taught in the University. The student may learn from this the character of any branch and the time necessary to complete it.

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