The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-08-16
FIRST CIRCULAR OF THE MARYLAND
AGP LnITL TIRAI nOIIEnE

AGhICDLTURAL COLLEGE.
We have received the first circular of the Mary
land Agricultural College. From it we learn that
the following are the officers of the Institution:
Trustees.-Thumas Perry Allegany county; J.
Dixon Roman, Washington county: George R.
Dennis. Frederick county; A. Bowie Davis, Mont
gomery county; Charles Carroll, Howard county;
5. 7. c. Brown, Carroll county; John G. Brune,
Baltimore city; John Merryman, Baltimore county;
Ramsay McHenry, Hartford county; G. NJ. Eldridge,
Cecil county; James 7. Earle, Queen Annes coun-
ty; Edward wilkins, Kent county; Samuel Ham
bleton, Talbot county, r. e. Carter Caroline coun-
ty; William 7. Goldsborough Dorchester county;
Charles B. Calvert, Prince Georges county; George
X. Dennis, Somerset county; William H. Purnell,
Worcester county; John II. Sothoron, ST. Mary 3
county; Walter Mitchell, Charles county; Thomas
}. Graham, Calvert county; n. B. WOrthington,
Anne Arundel county: John C. Groome, Eastern
Shore; Ohio II. Williams, Western Shore; W. W.
Corcoran District of Columbia.
Honorary member of Board of Trustees, DR..
William Newton Mercer, of louisiana
President of Board of Trustees, Charles B. Cal
vert.
Register John o. Wharton.
FACULrY.-Professors- C. Schaeffer, A.
NJ, N. D., Professor of the science Of agriculture
including chemistry and its application to the arts
geology and mineralogy; ii. D. Cough, A. B., Pro
essor Of the exact Sciences including mathematics
pure and mixed; surveying, mensuration, engineer
ing and construction, mechanics and astronomy;
Battista Lorino L.. L. D., Professor of Ancient and
Modern Languages. including Latin, Greek, French,
German, Spanish and Italian.
n. B.-The Trustees at their next meeting in
September, will fiji the vacant Professorships
Erpenses.-The entire charge per annum to each
pupil, for Board, Tuition, Lodging, Washing, Fuel
and Lights, will be too hundred aud fifty dollars
payable one half at the time of matriculation, and
the other half at the end of the first term on the
first Wednesday of March.
We extract from the Trustees statement the fol-
lowing explanation of their objects:
fWhie the Trustees are constrained bv the
amount of means now at their command to limit
their operations, they desire to make known dis
tnctly the ultimate ends and purposes by which
they are governed.
Their scheme then is first an Educational Insti-
tuition in its most comprehensive sense. Its defini-
ton of education is that it is the united svmmetri-
cal development and instruction of the religious the
intellectual and the physical qualities of the man.
1t recognizes the whole man in all the departments
of bis being the object of its care Its aim is not
to instruct merely, not to impart knowledge mere
ly, but to awaken, to develop, to train and disci-
pline all the latent inborn powers and faculties of
the man, that he may command them for the high
and noble uses of which they may be capable, or
for which they were designed.
1t is not to be supposed then that what we desig-
nate an Agricultural College, aims merely at pro-
fessonal instruction in agriculture. The plan un-
doubtedly embraces such instruction, but it is lar
more comprehensive. 1t claims for the farmer or
the mechanic, or for whomsoever its care may be
sought, hrst his development as man, trained and
fitted to the full extent of his CAPACITY for all the
duties of man and citizen. To this end it offers
him the advantage of the most approved systems
moral and intellectual culture; and super-adds to
these for his physical training moderate and syste
matte exercises in the field and in the workshop; as
the best means of laying the foundation of future
health and energy, in a well developed, robust,
physical constitution.
The farm in its general management, it is propos-
ed to make model and an example of the best
modes of culture in the several departments of
Agriculture. 1t viii be stocked with the best
breeds of cattle, sheep, hogs, &C., and the most ap
proved tools, implements and machines.
To complete the arrangements which system
so comprehensive demands, commodious work
shop, with motive power sufficient for all its pur-
poses, and with space enough for exercise and in
strucion in most of the mechanic arts, at least for
those operating in wood, iren and stone, is lndis
peusable. The motive power we have in the abun-
dant and rapid stream which passes through the
farm. Will the means to erect the building and
purchase the requisite machinery be denied us?
Feeling very profound interest in the success of
every effort tending to place Agriculture on foot