The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-05-22
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vi the Board of Trustees of the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College
of the State of MississipDi.

l. and aims of the A. & M. College, W
It deem it proper to issue this address.
:, The College building is now nearI
v completed, and is deemed to be ample
: even should the number of student
j. reach five hundred. We have con
It tract for the erection of dormitory-
p embracing kitchen, dining room
: store room, laundry and bath room.
sufficient to accommodate two hun
' dred pupils; also contract for th,
q erection of three cottages, for the Pres
! ident and professors. The dormitory
and cottages are to be completed by
the lst November of the current year
The college also owns about 800 acres
OF land, on which an experimental
farm is to be established. The COM
munity surrounding the College is
among the best in the State marked
for its good morals, general culture
and public spirit. We do not know
of II single locality in the State, in
which boys attending school would be
less exposed to improper associations,
or more stimulated to study and good
conduct.
The law of the State providing for
the College, prescribes that the Board
of Trustees shall have power for
the establishment and mainten-
ance of a first class institution,
at which the youth of the State may
acquire common school education
and scientific and practical knowl-
edge of agriculture, horticulture
and the mechanic arts; also of
the proper growth and care of
stock, Without, however, exclud-
ing other scientific and classical
studies, including military tactics.
and that the Trustees shall regulate
the course of study and the manage
ntof the experimental farm, man
ner of performing labor, aud the kind
of labor to be performed by the stu
dents. The law of Congress donating
the fund for the establishment of the
College requires that the College shall
teach such branches of learning as
appertain to agriculture and the me-
chanic arts ain order to promote the
liberal and practical education of the
classes, in the several pur-
suits and professions of life"
The Board mean to carry out these
objects of the college 50 far as lies in
their power.
The educational requirement for ad-
mission into the freshman or the low
est class in the College, will be pro-
ficiency in the studies taught in the
second grade, of common schools, viz:
geography, English gram
mar, spelling, reading and writing.
not having this proficiency
will be received into the preparatory {
lass. {
In the College will be taught, :
Verne's English literature, mental 6
nd moral philosophy, logic, rhetoric s
nd constitutional law-those sciences Z
which bear directly upon agriculture =
nd the mechanic arts, including a a
ractical application of those studies Q
0 agriculture, in all its various !
ranches, and mechanics. Agricul- v
ure includes, horticulture, pOmology, O
he cultivation of vineyards, the rails
lg and care of live stock. A general
'hool of these studies is Chemistry,
otany, Physics, Animal and Vege-
'ble Physiology, Entomology, Geo!o- d
y, Veterinary Science, Sanitary Sci j.
nee, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonom- u
jry, Surgery, and Civil Engineering, b
and business course, in
uding drawing. b
Students will be required to labor on ri
le farm (or in the shops when estab-
.hed,) at least three hours, for five or
X days in the week. This labor will p'
, mainly directed to enabling the of
udents to put in practice what they
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lie them, as far as practicable, to earn
'arly enough to pay for their board.
is probable that in the course of hf
W years, the labor will fu ly pay the
ard. Experiments will be made on
e farm, and the results given to the br
bile. The experiments will not only
clude new means of preparation and III
lture, and the adaptability of new
lnts to our climate, but also will test
? adaptability of different kinds of str
| to the various productions of the
nth. VI
t is the aim of the Trustees to bring sci
: benefits of the institution to every /
ing man liz the State who has a de- Ae'
, to be educated. To this end the
Istees have determined that all
endants of the College shall wear ,
hin five miles of it only the boa
scribed uniform. This uniform will of
Of such material as will be both bee
t and economical. 1t will be made oes .,
large quantities, paid for by the wal
lstees, and then re-sold to the WI
dents at actual cost, which it is ex- tab
ted will not be more than S25 per wv wv,
lum. n e
he provisions for the. boarding de- dleC
tment will, as far as possible, be sIns
ed on the farm, and such as must ian' llu'
Fought will be purchased at whole dert
prices, and the cOst-added to the TAX,
of steward and cooks, and fair mot
centage OH table and kitchen fur Iesi
Ire, to supply loss by breakage- ovel
constitute the costOf board. Text basi
As will be purchased by the Board in :
sold to the students at cost, and if 81 e.
taken care Of they may be re- pea
by the students, as they advance, The
small loss. Bedsteads will be fur toge
Ied at the dormitOrles, the other ~ W
iture will be furnished by the or n