of two or more years further, if they shall have pursued practical agriculture on a farm, and shall then pass satisfactory examinations in prescribed subjects on Agricultural Principles and Practice, before a Board of Examiners of the Scientific School, they may receive Diplomas in Agriculture.

Provision is also made for SPECIAL STUDENTS, who may enter at any time, and elect, under the advice and direction of the Faculty, such studies as they may be found qualified to pursue with classes already formed. Such students are subject to the general regulations and discipline of the institution. They are required to have their time fully occupied, and to pass such examinations as may be prescribed in each case. On leaving, they receive certificates stating the studies pursued and the amount of work performed in each.

A schedule of the several courses of study accompanies this report.

III. POST-GRADUATE STUDIES.

In addition to these courses of study for the under-graduates, postgraduate courses are arranged for students who desire, after graduation, to pursue special lines of training and research.

IN CHEMISTRY, students pursue special studies and investigations in the Chemical Laboratory, under the direction of a Professor, upon subjects connected with industrial or professional life.

IN GEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY, the large collections in Geological Hall are available for extended courses of study, and can be used, under the direction of a Professor, for special study in Geology, Mining, Metallurgy and the various branches of Engineering.

IN AGRICULTURE, the well-equipped farm and laboratories give unusual opportunities for advanced studies in this department, and every facility will be afforded for their use.

IN MATHEMATICS, instruction will be given in any of the following subjects: Geodesy, with practice; Higher Mathematics (pure); Theoretical and Practical Astronomy; the use of Physical Apparatus. IN THE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE, provision is made for instruction in an advanced course in Political Economy; in the Constitutional History and Jurisprudence of the United States; in the History of the English Constitution, and in the elements of Roman Law.

IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, the instruction given in theory and in the use of electrical apparatus of all kinds has been found most advantageous. Many recent graduates occupy positions of prominence in electrical works in this State and in other States.

Students completing a full course of two years, in any two of the departments, will be entitled to the degree of Doctor of Science.

IV. TERMS OF ADMISSION.

Every applicant for admission must be at least sixteen years of age, and must submit to the President proper testimonials of a good moral character. If an applicant for a State Scholarship, he must also present to the President a certificate of appointment from the County Superintendent.

Examinations for admission will be held on the same days as for the Classical Department, viz., on the Monday and Tuesday preceding Commencement, June 18th and 19th, 1888, beginning at 10 o'clock A. M., on Monday. Applicants for admission may also be examined on Tuesday before College opens in September of each year, at the same hour and place; but all students who can conveniently do so, are advised to be present in June.

Students may enter an advanced class either at the beginning of the College year or at other times, on condition that they sustain a satisfactory examination both on the preliminary studies and on those already passed over by the class which they propose to enter.

Provision is made for such students as wish to devote themselves to special subjects, if they are prepared to study profitably with the regular classes in those subjects.

The following are the subjects in which those desiring to enter the Freshman Class of the Scientific Department are examined. As they are all such as can be acquired in our best common schools, it is insisted that the preparation in them shall be thorough and complete:

1. ARITHMETIC.-Fundamental Operations; Common and Decimal Fractions; Denominate Numbers, including the Metric System; Percentage, including Interest and Discount; Proportion; Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots.

2. ALGEBRA to Series; as much as is contained in Loomis' Treatise on Algebra, Wentworth's Complete Algebra, or Wells' University Algebra.

3. PLANE GEOMETRY.-The whole of Plane Geometry is required.

4. ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION-including spelling.The student will be required to write a brief essay upon some theme taken from books with which he is expected to be familiar. In 1888, the subject for an essay will be taken from one of the following books: Hawthorne's Marble Faun, Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, Gray's Elegy, Coleridge's Ancient Mariner. In 1889 students should be familiar with Irving's Sketch-Book, Shakespeare's Julius Cæsar, Tennyson's In Memoriam, and Scott's Ivanhoe.

5. DESCRIPTIVE GEOGRAPHY.

6. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.

7. HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.-Candidates for admission are examined in the History of the United States, with special reference to the colonization of the several States, the forms of government which existed previous to the Revolution, the causes and principal events of the Revolution, the period of the Confederation, the establishment of the Federal Constitution, with the general history subsequent to that event.

8. Such a knowledge of Elementary PHYSICS and CHEMISTRY as may be obtained from Peck's. Ganot's Physics, or Wells' Natural Philosophy, and Valentine's Twenty Lessons in Chemistry, or Cooley's or Steele's Chemistry.

In preparing the student for this course, it is recommended that he be drilled thoroughly in Arithmetic, as a clear understanding of its simple elementary and practical principles is essential to a good Mathematician. His preparation in Algebra to Series should also be very thorough. In addition to understanding the PRINCIPLES of the science he must fix them in his memory, and learn their bearing and utility, and for this reason he must pay great attention to the solution of practical examples. What is needed is ability to solve ordinary examples with facility and explain them thoroughly.

Attention is also called to the Metric System of Weights and Measures, a practical knowledge of which is indispensable, since it is used in the class-room.

V. STUDENTS.

Six students, graduates of Rutgers or other colleges, are pursuing post-graduate studies at the College.

Of the four classes now in the institution, which will be graduated in June, 1888, 1889, 1890 and 1891, respectively, the Senior Class consists of eight students, the Junior Class of eleven, the Sophomore Class of thirteen, and the Freshman Class of twenty-seven. There are also seven special students, making a total of seventy-two now in attendance.

Under the law of New Jersey designating this institution as "The State College for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts," forty students from this State are entitled to free tuition for the entire course. These students are admitted to examination on the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools in each county. The scholarships are distributed among the counties in proportion to their representation in the Legislature.

In filling these State scholarships the Trustees have, from the first, adopted the most liberal interpretation of the law; and, in fact, have gone far beyond its requirements.

In cases where the scholarship is not filled by the county entitled to it, the Trustees have adopted the policy of allowing it to be filled temporarily, with the consent of the County Superintendent, by an applicant from some other county; and, in general, tuition is remitted to students who are unable to pay that in addition to the other expenses of procuring an education.

Information regarding vacant scholarships, and the steps necessary to obtain them, &c., can be had by addressing the County Superintendents.

The following table shows the distribution of the 'scholarships among the counties, how each is filled, the number of vacancies, and the names and addresses of County Superintendents:

VI. SPECIAL DEPARTMENTS.

1. MATHEMATICS.

In this course during the first year students are instructed in Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry and Surveying, and receive sufficient field practice to make them able to survey farms, either with the compass or the transit, and to determine the magnetic variations. Those who take the Engineering course for the full term of four years are instructed in Descriptive Geometry, Railroad Curves, Analytic Geometry, Calculus, Mechanics, Civil Engineering, Bridge-building, Geodesy, &c., having at the same time daily practice in Draughting. Special attention is given to Mathematics rather than to Engineering, for the reason that a thorough training in the former necessarily precedes and is essential to a good knowledge of the latter, and in a four years' course a student cannot get both. It is pretty generally admitted by engineers, both civil and mining, that students should first take a thorough course in Mathematics, and obtain a knowledge of the theory of engineering, and then enter the field, or the office, as engineers' assistants and continue their course. In Geodesy, the students receive instruction in making a reconnoissance survey for a protracted triangulation system; the measurement of the base line, with its several reductions; erection of signals, measurement of horizontal angles and their adjustment by the "Method of Least Squares," computation of latitude, longitude and azimuths, &c. For the past eight years some of the students of this department have been employed on the Geodetic Survey of New Jersey, and on the State Topographical Survey, with good results. The aim of the instruction is to ground the students firmly in Mathematics and to give them a knowledge of the theory of Engineering, so that after graduation they may be able to pursue understandingly and continuously an advanced course of mathematical study, or to go into the field or the office as engineers' assistants and do useful work.

2. GRAPHICS.

The instruction in this department is oral and by illustration or supervision, except in Descriptive Geometry. In this subject a textbook is used in the recitation-room, while the principles there discussed are more fully illustrated by problems assigned for graphical solution in the draughting-room.

During the entire course of four years the students are required to spend a certain number of hours each week in the draughting-room in practical work in Drawing. In the Freshman year the practice begins with the use of the principal instruments employed in Mechanical