The State Agricultural College, Michigan, Agricultural College P. O. Freight and Express Address, Lansing, Michigan. Faculty and Other Officers. OSCAR CLUTE, M. S., President.. ROBERT C. KEDZIE, M. A., M. D., Professor of Chemistry, and Curator of the Chemical Laboratory. PHILIP B. WOODWORTH, B. S., M. E., ALVIN B. NOBLE. B. Ph., Assistant Professor of English Literature and J. N. McBRIDE, Instructor in History and Political Economy. EDGAR A. BURNETT, B. S., Assistant Professor of Agriculture and Instructor FRED W. MCNAIR, B. S., WARREN BABCOCK, Jr., B. S., GILBERT H. HICKS. B. S., GEORGE A. GOODENOUGH, B. S.. WILBUR O. HEDRICK, B. S., WILLIAM H. VAN DERVOORT, B. S.. ALFRED G. GULLEY, M. S.. Foreman of the Horticultural Department. ALBERT R. CURTISS, E. A. EDGERTON, Mrs. LINDA E. LANDON, THOMAS GUNSON, JOSEPH MCCRACKEN, Foreman of the Farm. The State Agricultural College of Michigan was chartered in 1855. College opened in 1857, since which it has been in continuous operation. It has a large number of laboratories, dormitories, dwellings, barns, green-houses and other buildings. Its library has about 17,000 volumes. The Chemical, Physical, Zoological, Botanical, Agricultural, Horticultural, Veterinary and Mechanical Laboratories. are unusually well equipped. It has a good museum. Much attention is given to the study of agriculture, horticulture, mechanics, English, mathematics, the selences, history, political economy, ethics, etc. There is no population except that of the college. Lansing is three and a half miles west. Students work two and a half hours a day on the farm, or in the gardens or shops. On the farm and in the gardens they are paid a maximum rate of eight cents an hour. In the shops the work is purely educational, and is not paid for. Instruction is by text-books, lectures, and laboratory work. Much emphasis is put on the laboratory work. The location and surroundings are healthful and beautiful. Students soon become at home," and enjoy their college life very much. There are two courses of study.-the Agricultural and the Mechanical, each lasting four years, and each leading to the degree of M. S. The farm of 676 acres, the large gardens and orchards, the barns and the stock, the forcing-houses and the green-houses, and the extensive equipment of the horticultural and agricultural laboratories, give unsurpassed facilities for instruction in all agricultural subjects. The Mechanical Course is provided with a large laboratory containing wood-shop, iron-shop, blacksmith-shop, testing-rooms, drawing-rooms, class-rooms,etc. A foundry will soon be built. Residents of Michigan pay no tuition. Students from other States pay $15.00 a year tuition. Room rent for a warmed room is from $9.00 to $21.00 a year. Board at cost-about $2.50 per week. Long vacation is from Nov. 15th to February 20th, giving qualified students a chance to teach a district school for four months. Many students pay all their college expenses. For 35 years the College has been sending out graduates, who are self-helpful, practical, Independent men, who can take hold and do something. They are successful in all the varied callings. Many of them have taken eminent positions in agriculture, horticulture, mechanics, commerce, law, medicine, education, and scientific research. The Spring Term begins Feb. 20th, 1893. The Summer Term begins May 22nd, 1893. The Fall Term begins August 30th, 1833. The Fall Term is the beginning of the college year, and is the best time for students to enter. For catalogues giving full information, address H. G. REYNOLDS, Secretary, Agricultural College P. O., Mich. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. Graduate School, Department of Literature, Science and the Arts. Department of Medicine and Surgery, Department of Law. Department of Pharmacy. Homopathic Medical College. Dental College. The Graduate School gives advanced courses of instruction in literary and scientific studies to graduates of colleges. The Department of Literature, Science and the Arts includes courses in Pedagogy, Mining, Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and offers special facilities for advanced courses in all branches of collegiate learning. Select studies are offered to those who do not desire to pursue a full regular course. The courses in Law and in Pharmacy are two years each, in the other professional schools three years. The students in this year 1892-'93 number more than 2,800. The annual expenses of students, including clothing and incidentals, are found to be on the average about $370. The fees for students not residing in Michigan are Matriculation fee, $25, Annual fee in Literary Department, $30; in all other departments, $35. The fee for students residing in Michigan are, Matriculation fee, $10, Annual fee in Literary Department, $20; in all other departments, $25. For Calendar, giving full details of courses of work in each department, address, JAS. H. WADE, Secretary and Steward, ANN ARBOR, MICH, Michigan Mining School, Houghton, Michigan. Officers of the Michigan Mining School and of the State Geological A State School of Mining Engineering, located in the heart of the Lake Superior mining region, giving ample practical instruction in Drawing, Blue-printing, Mechanics, Mechanism, Properties of Materials, Graphical Statics, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Shop Practice, Analytical and Technical Chemistry, Assaying, Ore-Dressing, Metallurgy, Plane, Railroad and Mine Surveying, Hydraulics, Mining, Mineralogy, Petrography, General, Economic, and Field Geology, etc. Has Summer schools in Surveying, Shop practice, and Field Geol. ogy. Laboratories, Shops, and Stamp Mill well equipped. Tuition free. For Catalogues apply to the Director, Houghton, Michigan. The Academy is situated twenty-six miles from Detroit and four and one-half miles from Pontiac, with which it is connected by railroad. The grounds, comprising one hundred and twenty acres, are on the shore of Orchard Lake, in one of the most beautiful and healthful localities in Michigan. The buildings are all new, of brick, and built expressly for the purpose for which they are used. There are already six modern building, well lighted and ventilated, and complete in every respect. From the location of the Academy all the benefits of country life are secured, and the cadets are free from the temptations and distractions of the city. The Academy has every advantage to make it excep tionally good-location, healthfulness, rational methods, thoroughness and progressive spirit. A Thorough Preparatory School. The special work of the Academy is to prepare for our best universities, and to give an extended course to those not intending to go to college. Courses of instruction are offered in preparation for the college Courses leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, Science, Letters, and for the courses in Civil, Mechanical, Mining and Electrical Engineering. In Chemistry, Electricity, Law, History, Mathematics, English, Latin, Greek, French and German, opportunity is given at the Academy for advanced work. Its instructors are men of ability and success in teaching, and are graduates of Michigan, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Hamilton, West Point, and other first-class institutions, affording the benefits resulting from the combination of methods and experience at different universities. Colonel E. M. Heyl, U. S. Army, Inspector General, Division of Missouri, in his annual report for 1892 to the Inspector General at Washington, says in regard to this Academy: "This Academy still maintains its place as the leading military institution of the country, outside of West Point, and in all its details it is the most complete and thorough school of the kind I have ever inspected. The State may well be proud of Orchard Lake Military Academy, and the young men it graduates, as they will be the material on which the country can rely for officers in the event of war." "The Michigan Military Academy at Orchard Lake has, by its high grade of scholarship and its strenuous efforts for the best success, achieved a place second to none in the country."-Extract from Contrioutions to American Educational History, 1892, Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C. For Catalogue and other information, address, Orchard Lake, Michigan. Colonel J. Sumner Rogers, Superintendent Anoka Business College, ANOKA, MINN. Established 1883. The most practical Institution of the kind in the West. Offers more advantages for obtaining a Busi ness Education than any other Commercial School in the State. A bank with circulating notes and deposit a leading feature. A. B. CLINCH, President. |