Faculty.

Samuel Spahr Laws, LL.D., President

Professor of the Sciences of the Mind.

Jeremiah Wilson Sanborn, B. S., Dean,

Professor of Agriculture.

Joseph Ficklin, Ph. D.,

Professor of Mathematics.

Paul Schweitzer, Ph. D.,

Professor of Chemistry.

Samuel M. Tracy, M. S.,

Professor of Botany, Entomology and Horticulture.

Thomas J. Lowry, S. M., C. E.,

Professor of Surveying.

David R. Mcanally, A. M.,

Professor of English.

Benjamin F. Thomas, Ph. D.,

Professor of Physics.

Conrad Diehl,

Professor of Free Hand and Mechanical Drawing.

J.W. Spencer, B. A. Sc., Ph. D. (Gott.), F. G. S.,

Professor of Geology and Zoology.

Levi Chubbuck, B. Ag., Sc.

Farm Superintendent.

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The Object of the School.

The Missouri Legislature, for the year 1863, passed an act in acceptance [unclear: of] land grant of Congress, of the year 1862, for the endowment of colleges, "[unclear: For] benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts." In the year 1870, the [unclear: Legislated] established the "Agricultural and Mechanical College as a distinct department [unclear: of] University of the State of Missouri."

The Agricultural and Mechanical College has organized a strictly [unclear: Industrie] course of studies. Its central purpose is to educate the farmer, rather than the [unclear: hghgfh] zen, to give a special rather than a general education, standing in the same [unclear: relation] the art of farming that the Medical College does to the medical profession; [unclear: that] Law School does to the legal profession; or that a School of Engineering [unclear: dose] the practice of the art it seeks to give proficiency in.

While the central aim is not to educate the man, but the specialist, very [unclear: happen] the course of studies that is best fitted to impart the special information [unclear: essential] the fullest success in farming, covers those sciences well calculated to inform, [unclear: and] give pleasure and satisfaction to the mind, as well as to enlarge and ennoble it [unclear: fdfdf] general culture, for farming covers not only problems in the inanimate [unclear: world], deals very largely with nature in its living forms, the knowledge of the [unclear: law] which gives information essential to a good general education, yet [unclear: knowledge]! enables him to direct those laws in his interests.

In the prosecution of the design of the course of studies, both the science [unclear: and] of agriculture will be taught. The former by lectures supplemented by text [unclear: be] the latter by actual field work. The field work will be so directed as to [unclear: example] the former and to familiarize the student with all the practical details [unclear: essential] to pursuing of successful horticulture and general farming.

Under their appropriate headings the facilities of the college for [unclear: prosecuting] purposes will be observed.