islature was $41,500, which was reduced to $37,500 by an error in the engrossment. The whole number of students for 1859 was one hundred and five; for 1860, was fifty-one. The same act of the Legislature that created the State Board of Agriculture and committed the College to its charge, indicated with greater clearness than the previous organic law, the general plans to be adopted. It requires a four years' course, and seems to expect that its graduates shall receive in the College not only a professional but a general education. The labor system is retained. The law itself will be found in the appendix, and the development of the existing plans for the Institution has been indicated in a foregoing part of this report. The appropriation for 1861 and 1862 was $16,500; that for 1863 and 1864 was $18,000. The number of students in 1861 was sixty-five; the number in 1862 was seventy-four. The Board of Agriculture have proceeded to extend the means of practical agricultural instruction in the College, as fast as their means allow. They have erected some necessary structures, (barn, bridge, &c.,) planted some fruit, purchased some stock of pure blood, &c. The Legislature accepted the grant of Congress to the State for the establishment of colleges for the teaching of agriculture, military science, &c., and by a large majority made it over to the Agricultural College. The various enactments are given below. The work of selecting and securing lands is going on as rapidly as may be. The last appropriation to the College, and the bestowment of the Congress grant upon it were not made without opposition. There were many who advocated the removal of the Institution to Ann Arbor, and its connection with the University. The advocates of this plan, for the most part, held the labor system to be a hindrance rather than a help to a professional school of agriculture. With many the recommendation of Gov. Andrews, of Massachusetts, to the Legislature of that State, to unite the school to be established by the Congressional grant to Harvard University, had much weight. But every attempt to secure a removal was rejected by large majorities in both branches of the Legislature. Even in Massachusetts the Senate voted unanimously, and the House of Representatives by a large majority, in favor of a college distinct from any existing college. This unanimity of action was due in great part to the clear representations made to the Massachusetts Senate by the Rev. Dr. Haven, now President of our State University, but at that time chairman of the Massachusetts Senate committee, to whom was referred the part of the Governor's message relating to the Congressional grant. In regard to the expenditures of the College and its number of students, one of the reports made to the House of Represen tatives says: "The examination which the undersigned have given to the Agricultural College, has convinced us that misapprehension exists as to the current expenditures of the College. The impression prevails that it uses annually a very large amount of money, without rendering corresponding advantages to the State, especially in the way of experiments and original investigations in the Science of Agriculture. The fact is, however, that its expenditures, from year to year, have been only sufficient to provide proper facilities for the education of its students, and to make gradual improvements in land and buildings, with a view to a higher excellence in the outdoor discipline in future. The appropriation for 1857 and 1858, was. $40,000 00 Total,..... “This is the entire cost of the Institution to the State; for the first appropriation of $56,320 was from the sale of salt spring land, which cost the State nothing. The total above given exceeds the amount actually expended by the College since it was opened to students, by the sum of $13,472 73, which should be added to the $56,320, making $69,893 73 as the first cost of the Institution, prior to its opening. The farm cost over $10,000. The buildings were, unfortunately, not well made at first, but two large College buildings, a brick barn, four tasteful brick dwellings, a chemical laboratory, costing, it is said, some $3,000, the first furnishing of farm with stock and tools, and other expenditures incident to a new enterprise in a place removed from ordinary markets and channels of trade, and in a season of great financial embarrassment throughout the country, all these do not afford, out of a sum of $69,793 73, an unexampled margin for waste and extravagance. For the last four years, the average annual expenditure has been $10,131 82. The current expenses of the last two years have been about $10,000, a sum greater than the appropriation made in 1861, which was made in view of an unexpended balance in the treasury of the College. "In regard to the number of students, it must be borne in mind that it is only two years since the course of study was extended from two years to the four years required by the present law of re-organization. This radical change, from a purely technical to a more mixed course, was preceded the year previous by one as sweeping in its character. Under these circumstances it is natural to look for fewness of numbers in the higher classes, and the graduates of the College. At first, also, the rate of wages paid students per hour was often as high as ten cents-the maximum wages is now eight cents; the first course of study was less professional by far than the present. All these circumstances would account for the fact, that at one or two terms of the College, the number of students was greater than during the last two years. The officers of the College, aside from the Board, at present are: T. C. Abbot, A. M., President, Professor of History and English Literature. Manly Miles, M. D., Professor of Zoology and Animal Physiology. C. A. Kenaston, A. B., Instructor of the Preparatory Class, and Secretary. R. C. Kedzie, A. M., M. D., Professor of Chemistry. Albert N. Prentiss, B. S., Instructor in Botany and Horticul ture and Superintendent of the Gardens. Oscar Clute, B. S., Instructor in Pure and Applied Mathematics. Hon. Langford G. Berry, of Detroit, Treasurer. The officers have been as follows: PRESIDENTS. Joseph R. Williams, A. M., from 1857 to 1859. T. C. Abbot, A. M., 1863 to From 1859 to 1863, the executive power was in the hands of the Faculty at large, who chose their own executive head from year to year. PROFESSORS, INSTRUCTORS AND SUPERINTENDENTS. Louis R. Fisk, A. M., Chemistry, 1857 to 1863. Calvin Tracy, A. M., Mathematics, 1857 to 1860. Robert D. Weeks, A. M., English Literature, Farm Economy, 1857 to 1858. John C. Holmes, A. M., Horticulture, 1857 to 1858. Enoch Bancker, Esq., Assistant in Chemistry, 1857 to 1859. T. C. Abbot, A. M., English Literature, 1858 to 1860. R. F. Johnstone, Esq., Superintendent of the Farm, 1859 to 1860. Henry Goadby, M. D., F. L. S., Animal and Vegetable Physiology, 1859 to 1860. to Cleveland Abbe, Assistant in Mathematics, 1859 to 1860. George Thurber, M. D., Botany, 1860 to 1863. John C. Holmes, A. M., Horticulture, 1860 to 1861. Manly Miles, M. D., Zoology and Animal Physiology, 1860 T. C. Abbot, A. M., Civil and Rural Engineering, 1860 to 1861. James Bayley, Esq., Superintendent of the Farm, 1860 to 1862. to R. H. Tripp, Esq., Preparatory Department, 1860 to 1861. J. G. Ramsdell, Esq., Instructor in Book-keeping, 1861 to 1862. T. C. Abbot, A. M., History and English Literature, 1861 J. S. Tibbits, Esq., Superintendent of the Farm, 1862 to 1863. Albert N. Prentiss, B. S., Instructor in Botany and Superintendent of the Gardens, 1863 to Oscar Clute, B. S., Instructor in Pure and Applied Mathematics, 1863. to The class that should have graduated at the expiration of the first four years, (in 1860,) was dispersed at the re-organization of the College under the Board of Education, or this College would have been nearly a year in advance of any other Agricultural College in the land, in bestowing the honors of graduation. In 1861 a class was graduated, and another in 1862; the new re-organization of the College, by extending the course of study, deprives the College of a commencement season the |