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Michigan State Agricultural College BY PRESIDENT ABBOT
On the first day the students, sixty-one in number, were divided for classes and work into three divisions. The only catalogues for these years are manuscript ones of my own making. The terms and students were as follows:
1857. First term. May 13 to October 28; total number of students 81; five of these students afterwards graduated.
Second term, December 2 to February 22, 1858; total number of students 101; total number of students the year of both terms, 124, representing 24 counties.
1858. The third term began April 7, 1858, and closed October 27. There were 101 students, of whom 58 had been in attendance the previous year. The fourth term began November 30, 1858, and closed February 23, 1859. There were 80 students in the winter term, 39 of them entering for the first time. In both terms there were 137 different students, representing 21 counties.
1859. April 5, fifth term opened, closed August 5; August 16, sixth term opened, closed November 16. In this year there were 4 Juniors, 32 Sophomores, 48 Freshmen of the 1st division, 32 in the 2d division. Total number for the year, 106, representing 26 counties.
The changes in 1860 make me defer giving these statistics for that year, since, so far as the general affairs of the college go, these first three years form a group by themselves. During the first year no regular course of study was marked out. In the opening term, the most advanced of the students studied arithmetic, advanced algebra, and grammar.
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