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A. & M. College of Texas.

CURRICULA.


AGRICULTURAL COURSE.

FIRST YEAR—THIRD CLASS.

1st Term. Mathematics. Arithmetic, (Venable) Reviewed—Algebrae, Davies' Bourdon.
English. Clark's Normal Grammar, James' Southern Selections, bi-weekly composition and declamation.
Agriculture. History and Description of breeds of domesticated animals, cattle, horses sheep, swine, by lectures.
Physics. Lectures on Elementary Physics.
Drawing. Free Hand.
Practice. Farm Carpentry.
2nd Term. Mathematics. Algebra finished—Davies' Bourdon.
English. Alex. H. Stephens' History of the United States; Jame's Southern Selections; bi-weekly compositions and declarations.
Agriculture. Gray's Structural and Systematic Botany; Soils, their formation, constituents, classification &c.
Physics. Lectures on Elementary Physics.
Drawings.
Practice. Farm Carpentry, and Farm, Garden and Orchard culture.

SECOND YEAR—SECOND CLASS

1st Term.
Mathematics. Plane, Solid and Spherical Geometry—Venable.
Physics. Gage's Physics, Lecture, Experimental Illustrations.
Agriculture. Mile's Stock-Breeding: History of Agriculture, Lectures.
English. Hill's Science of Rhetoric. Essays and Orations.
Practice. Instructive Agricultural Practice.
Book-keeping.
Monthly essay.