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.