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edge, including chemistry. geology, mineralo-
gy ani those sciences most immediately and
vitally essential to agriculture and the useful
arts,    a * '
  " 2. To require that every pupil and teacher
shall devote some hones each of five days in
each week (excluding Sunday for worship,
and Saturday for recreation) to bona fide I-
bor in some branch of productive industry."
  "8. To have Agriculture, with the various
branches of Manufactures and the Mechanic
Arts, systematically prosecuted within the col-
lege and its grounds, and as a part of its reg-
ular course; and no student shall be permit-
ted to graduate with honor, until he pass a
searching examination with regard to his
proficiency in agriculture, or some branch of
manufacturing or mechanical industry."
  It will thus appear that the Farm and the
Workshop are to be leading features in the
course of practical instruction, and that to
whatever profession the pupils may aspire,
they cannot receive the honors of the Insti-
tution unless they have first learned the prin-
ciples and familiarized themselves with the
practice of at least one of the useful arts.
  But the plan of the People's College does
not confine the curricult m of study to the
Practical Arts; it also embraces General Sci-
ence and Literature.  Witness the Act of In-
corporation, by which the trustees are requir-
ed "to make ample provision for instruction
in the classics," as also the Circular issued
by the Board of Trustees, wherein it is de-
clared to be " the intention of the Trustees to
make this Institution not onty the best, so far
as practical knowledge is concerned, but to
afford opportunities to all who may desire
them, for obtaining 8s thorough a knowledge
of all that pertains to Science and Literature
as any other institution in the world. The
People's College is to be eminently an educa-
tional institution, and, as such, it will seek
the attainment of its purpose by means which
experience has proved to be the most appro-
priate.   c e C    There will be taught, as
means of mental discipline, full courses of
study in pure and mixed Mathematics, in the
aneient anl modern Languages, Geography,
History, Astronomy, Mechanics, Esthetics,
Mental and Moral Philosophy, and the Bible."
  So much for the plan. Now let us see



WHAT THE PEOPLE 5 COLLEGE HAS ALsEADY DONlt
  It was a part of the original plan of the
People's College that it should not only be for
the people, but that it should be endowed and
sustained by eoiatary contribugm of the peo-
ple of the whole State-the capital stock of
the corporation to consist of not more than
$600,000; the said stock to be in shares of
one dollar each, and each stockholder to be en-
titled to one vote in the choice of trustees, or
in other matters determinable by the votes of
the stockholders.  In accordance with tbis
provision, the Farm Site and a portion of the
College Edifice have already been secured, and
subscriptions are in hand sufficient to put the
Institution in actual operation within a very
short time.
  Tie Location for the College appears to us
to have been well chosen. For, although not
altogether central to the State, yet it is.suffi-
ciently accessible from all parts thereof, and
it possesses the important advantage of being
in the midst of picturesque scenery and of a
section of country which very well represents
the State in its entireness. Havana is situat-
ed near the head of lake Seneca, on the Che-
mung Railroad, 18 miles north of Elmira-
the point of its intersection with the N. Y. &
Erie B. R.-and 51 miles southeast of Canan-
daigua, where it connects with the N. Y. Cen-
tral. The Chemung Canal also passes through
the place. On either side of the village, east
and west, there rises a range of hills; the one
on the east being bold, precipitous, rocky, and
clad with dark evergreens; the one on the
west sloping handsomely eastward, andclothed
in summer with cultivated crops of grass and
grain.
  At the date of our visit, in the month of
May-a time when water channels are usually
full-the rocky bluff was jewelled with sever-
al beautiful cascades that came tumbling
down from their lofty heights with the flesh
and roar of young Niagaram.
  The Farm, on which the college is located,
lies partly within and partly without the oar-
poration lines of the village, and embraces
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