Public Speaking.

There is perhaps no study of wider application and of more immediate benefit to the student than that of vocal expression. It helps him in his other studies. Every recitation affords him an opportunity of practically applying the rules and principles of correct expression, and, what is of still greater value to him, he soon discovers for himself the fundamental principle that proper expression is always the result of a thorough comprehension of the thought. Shallowness and inaccuracy are almost wholly due to defective reading. For this reason, students are encouraged to form the habit of mentally paraphrasing whatever they read, to the end that they may grasp every detail, relationship, contrast and purpose contained in the subject-matter. This habit, when formed, leads to accuracy of scholarship in any line.

It is not intended that this department should offer an extended course in elocution. There is no intention of fitting students for the stage or platform as professional readers. It may be safely affirmed, however, that the course here offered, taken in conjunction with correlated subjects in the department of English, will prepare the student in this line for all the ordinary demands of an active and useful career.

1. Public Speaking I. Second year. Required in all courses. The work in this course is largely analytic. A critical study of the four general types of utterance. Paraphrasing as a preparation for expression. The principle of grouping. Musical properties of speech. Practice in literary and expressional criticism. Carefully selected exercises in vocal technique are given throughout the course. Lessons are assigned, prepared and recited as definitely as in any other study. Text-book, Vocal Expression and Literary Interpretation, part I.

2. Public Speaking II. Second year. Required in all courses. In this course the work is synthetic. The principles of vocal expression as studied in part I are here applied to literary wholes. Studies in formulation, discrimination, emotion, and volition. The principle of unity and the laws of movement, principality, contrast and climax are studied and applied to numerous selections from standard literature. Studies in tone color, transitions, and descriptive gesture. The purpose is to cultivate taste, judgment and facility in the art of expression. Instruction is based on Vocal Expression and Literary Interpretation, part II.

3. Public Readings. Second and third years. Required in all courses. The instruction in this course is individual and consists of private rehearsals. Each student is required to appear in public at least once a year. For this purpose all sophomores, juniors and seniors are assembled in chapel every Saturday afternoon throughout the year.

4. Orations. Each senior student is required to prepare an oration for public delivery. These productions must meet all prescribed requirements, be rehearsed, and delivered as outlined in No. 3. By special arrangement, credits in public readings and orations may be obtained for equivalent work done in any of the College literary societies.

Veterinary Science, Physiology, and Bacteriology.

The course in veterinary science is not intended for the training of veteri narians, but to meet the needs of farmers and stockmen in the line of practical nursing, minor surgery, the use of domestic remedies, and a general knowledge of diseases of animals and how they can be prevented.

In physiology, it is the aim to give a thorough knowledge of the structure and functions of the human body and a clear understanding of the laws which are essential to its healthy development and preservation. So far as practicable, this course is preparatory to work in veterinary science and zoology.

In bacteriology, the student is given a thorough and practical knowledge of bacteria, those that are beneficial as well as those that are injurious, and the various methods by which they can be controlled.

Nos. 1 and 2 are required in the agriculture, domestic science and general science courses; No. 3 is required in the agriculture course.

1. Physiology. Second year, winter or spring term. Advanced course in human anatomy and physiology; the gross and microscopic structure of the various tissues and organs of the body and their functions; the various changes, physical and chemical, associated with nutrition, and the conditions that favor the healthy development of the body. Martin's Human Body is used as a textbook. This is supplemented by lectures and laboratory work. This must be preceded by elementary physiology, chemistry I, and elementary physics.

2. Bacteriology. Third year, fall, winter or spring term. These courses consist of the morphology, classification and physiology of bacteria; relation of external conditions to bacterial development; disinfectants and disinfecting; bacteriological technique, preparation of culture media, staining, isolating and identifying bacteria; general fermentation, putrefaction, and decay; bacterial action on foods, nitrification, ptomains, toxins, and other bacterial products; hygiene of infective diseases; the preparation and use of antitoxins and vaccines. The students of all courses are required to take laboratory work, in which they study cultural and microscopical features; the staining of bacteria and preparation of culture media; thus the student becomes perfectly familiar with bacteriological apparatus. Must be preceded by advanced physiology and zoology. Lectures and laboratory work.

3. Veterinary Science. Third year, fall term. Comparative anatomy and physiology, with special reference to disease; hygiene of farm animals; nursing; general symptoms and causes of disease; contagious diseases, disinfection, quarantine, and vaccination; parasitic diseases; injurious foods; common diseases of farm animals, with symptoms and treatment; surgery and treatment of wounds; veterinary obstetrics and dentistry. Must be preceded by advanced physiology and chemistry. Text book, Care of Animals, Mayo. Advanced veterinary science and bacteriology are offered as electives in the fourth year.

MEANS OF ILLUSTRATION.

In addition to the stock upon the College farm, the veterinary museum contains Azoux models of man and horse which are dissectible; also, apparatus, instruments, charts, models, and an excellent collection of parasites of domestic animals. There is also a large collection of anatomic specimens, showing healthy and diseased structures. The bacteriological laboratory is well equipped with microscopes and apparatus for bacteriological work, both elementry and advanced.

The Short Courses.

There are large numbers of young people who from lack of means or time are unable to take an extended course of study, but whose usefulness in the world would be much increased by a little special training. Their earning capacity in the household or on the farm is far from what it might be, and they are thus handicapped in the struggle for a livelihood. To bring to this large portion of the "industrial classes," even in small measure, the "liberal and practical education" provided for by the organic act, the College has established certain short courses of study, with practice.

The teaching in these courses, while no whit less accurate than in the others, is upon a different plane. Taking students without scientific or mathematical training, the instruction must be more largely a giving of facts, without an elaboration of the underlying principles which the regular courses afford. The work is intensely practical. Studying such texts as any bright young man or woman can understand, receiving lectures of the same type, and putting into daily practice through industrial exercises the facts and principles learned in the classroom, the student cannot but be greatly benefited. It is hoped, too, that in many cases young people who had thought that they could not afford a four-year course will, by this taste of the advantages and pleasures of an education, be led into the regular

courses.

These courses are put at the seasons of the year which seem likely to accommodate the most students, those for young men being given in the winter term, when farm work is more slack, and the young women's course being in the fall. Four such courses are now offered A dairy course of one winter term; a domestic science course of two fall terms; a farmers' course of two winter terms, and a farm dairy coures of one winter term.

Requirements for Admission.

Persons at least eighteen years of age and of good moral character are admitted to these courses as follows:

Persons between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one will be admitted upon presentation of common-school diploma, grammar-school certificate, teacher's certificate, or high-school diploma, or upon passing an examination in the following subjects: Reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic, grammar, geography, physiology, and United States history. Persons over twenty-one will be admitted without examina

tion, but should have sufficient education to enable them to understand the simple text-books used, and to handle readily problems in common and decimal fractions and percentage. They will be required to attend strictly and constantly to their duties, or leave. They have the same free use of the College library that other students have. Owing to the peculiar nature of the work and to the slight degree of preparation which it assumes, students are required to be present at the very beginning of the course, and those applying later will not be admitted.

The short courses are in no sense equivalent to the long courses, and no one should take a short course who can take a whole or even

a part of one of the long courses. All of the common-school preparatory and freshman branches are taught each term; and nearly all of sophomore studies are taught each term; so that it is possible for one to get nearly all subjects of the first two years by attending during the winter terms only.

Lectures and Practice in Cooking. The study of stores, stove construction, management and fuels are the first topics considered, followed by experiments illustrating the effect of heat upon starch and proteid. The principles are then applied to the cookery of cereals, vegetables, beverages, breads, meats, soups, and simple cake mixtures and puddings. During the term lectures are given by the departments of chemistry and physics illustrating the application of a few fundamental scientific principles to cookery. At stated intervals lectures are also given on home sanitation and household accounts.

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Sewing. Pupil makes a model book covering the full course in hand sewing, and consisting of basting, gathering, darning, patching, etc. Machine practice, drafting, cutting and making underskirt and drawers; drafting, fitting and making dress without lining; cutting and making corset cover and night-dress. terials for the model work will be furnished by the College. Each pupil will furnish her own material for the garments, but if sufficient proficiency is shown in making the first garment, pupils may be allowed to take orders for the others. Drawing. The work in drawing is especially adapted to the needs of this class of students; it will consist of free-hand and geometrical drawing.