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Michigan State Agricultural College BY PRESIDENT ABBOT
The scheme was: 7: 45 A. M., Natural History, Prepara
tory and Freshmen; 8: 45 A. M., Juniors in Chemistry, Freshmen in Trigonometry; 9: 45 A. M., Juniors in Mineralogy and Botany; 10: 45 A. M., Juniors in Geology, Freshmen in Botany; 3 P. M., Preparatory students in Physical Geography; 4 P. M., Preparatory class in Algebra.
In the second term Whately's Rhetoric and Logic were taught by Mr. Tripp.
March 26. Bell rung at night to call attention to a beautiful corona of the northern lights.
May 9. Abraham Lincoln nominated for the presidency at Chicago.
Sept. 6. The college students in uniform paid a visit to Governor Wm. H. Seward who was in Lansing. They were drawn in a car decorated with appropriate devices, clusters of rakes, hoes, axes, chains, etc. The address to Governor Seward was replied to by the Governor most happily.
The school year 1860 closed with a Junior exhibition November 1, which was participated in by twelve students, ten of whom afterwards graduated.
The college had 25 acres in wheat, 30 in corn, lo in oats, 3 in potatoes, and 40 in hay. The stock was valued at $ 1, 401. The appropriation made to the college for 1859-60 was $37, 500. With this sum the board of education paid the large indebtedness of the previous two years, and at the close of the year 1860 the college was virtually free from debt. The buildings consisted of the present (1883) college hall, a boarding hall since burned, the present carpenter's shop, used as a barn, four dwellings for professors, and the herdsman's house, then in the orchard. The public highway ran through the grounds between the professors' houses, and there was not a field clear enough of stumps for the use of a mower.
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