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Michigan State Agricultural College BY PRESIDENT ABBOT
The plan was not successful, and in December, 1866, the boarding hall was put in charge of the facility.
February 1st the spring term opened. Lewis R. Fiske was professor of chemistry, and by election of the faculty, president pro tempore. Theophilus C. Abbot was professor of civil and rural engineering, and treasurer, which latter office he had held in 1858 and 1859. George Thurber, M. D., of New York City, and now and for many years one of the principal editors of the American Agriculturist, was professor of botany and vegetable physiology. Manley Miles, M. D.. of Flint, State Zoologist, was professor of zoology and animal physiology. John C. Holmes was superintendent of the horticultural department.
James Bayley, ex-President of the State Agricultural Society, and said to be one of the best farmers of Oakland county, was superintendent of the farm.
Some departures were permitted from the new course in the case of students who were here in previous years under a more literary course of study, and Mr. Robert Hall Tripp, a graduate of the University the next year (1861), and subsequently Professor of Latin in the University of Minnesota, was employed as an instructor.
There were, in 1860, 8 Juniors, 17 Sophomores, and 24 Freshmen and preparatory students, —in all 49, representing 21 counties. This falling off in the number of students has generally been attributed to the change in the plan. The first term began February 29 and continued until August 7. The second term began August 14 and closed with a Junior exhibition November 1.
In the first term the studies might all be termed professional except the pure mathematics.
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