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All the branches of a thorough, accomplished and useful'
education are thus within the reach of the student. He can
here receive what is necessary for the attainment of general
scholarship, the particular and special knowledge which the
art of husbandry requires, and military science of the first
order. He can at the same time learn best how to cultivate,
beautify and improve his rural home with agricultural skill,
aad to defend it from aggression by the highest arts of mili-
tary science. At one and at the same time, to become the
skilled husbandman, the accomplished scholar, and the well
trained soldier. A combination most fit and becoming to
every American citizen.

This institution presents claims for the patronage of the
people of our own and all of the sister States in the most ex-
cellent and approved combination which it presents of intel-
lectual development and the best physical training. The end
being to make our youth equal to all the great duties which
may devolve on them in war or peace.

The salubrity of the climate, and the out door exercise will
greatly contribute to increase the health and develop the
physique of the student. Many the hope of their parents and
pride of their friends, who from close confinement to study
will fill premature graves, if taught here would emerge from
the college hall with robust health and strong constitu-
tions.

The climate of this part of Maryland is particularly favor-
able to the cure and prevention of consumption, and other
diseases of the chest. This, when aided by good nutrition
and the most healthful exercise in the open air are the best
guards against the class of diseases which are most destruc-
tive to the health of the student.

To those of feeble constitution from the North and West,
this college at the same, time presents an asylum for health
and an institution of the highest intellectual and physical
training.

Owing to the liberal manner in which this college has been
endowed, the trustees of this institution are enabled to make
the expenses attending it very moderate. This with the ex-
cellence of its scholastic, scientific and practical system of
education should favorably impress all those who desire to
receive a thorough education, and whose means are such to
make cheapness an object. A partial course of such branches
as may be desired, will be given to students who may not de-
sire to attend the fall college course.

CALVERT County.

Is that body of land lying between Anne Arundel county
on the North, the Chesapeake bay on the east, the Patuxent