A Plea for the Farmers' College of Hamilton County, Ohio, and for a Reformation in Collegiate Instruction Being a Report to That Institution, Made July 17, 1850 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Plea for the Farmers' College of Hamilton County, Ohio, and for a Reformation in Collegiate Instruction: Being a Report to That Institution, Made July 17, 1850
An examination of the course of studies in all our colleges, will show, that a very large portion, really requiring more time to master them, than the four years allotted to the Whole college course, is devoted to studies, having none, or very remote relation to the active duties of life. It is not the first time the assertion has been hazarded, that the single academy at West Point, has done more to ad vance the physical improvement of our country, certainly in its canals and railroads, than all our colleges united.
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