Author: Henry Steel Olcott

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-16

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781330582909

Excerpt from Outlines of the First Course of Yale Agricultural Lectures These sketches of the lectures which were given during the recent Convention at Yale College, were first printed in the columns of the New York Tribune. Occurring as it did when there was an unusual pressure upon the columns of the paper, the Convention would never have been reported at all if the editors had not regarded with great favor this attempt to improve the condition of our Agricultural science. Anxious to lend the powerful aid of the Tribune to further the object in view, they allotted a sufficient space daily for a succinct outline of the lectures throughout the entire course. So much valuable information was embraced in the several discourses, that to the reporter it was a matter of great difficulty to select as little as would fill the space at his disposal; and the readers of this pamphlet will not, therefore, wonder if he has not done full justice to either the topics or the lectures. When the course was almost completed frequent inquiries were made as to whether any complete report of it would be published; and by many a desire was expressed that if nothing more detailed and elaborate could be done, at least these Tribune sketches should be collected in book form, for convenience of preservation. It being established beyond doubt that no full publication could, for various reasons, be made, the publishers of this volume have made arrangements with Mr. Olcott to edit and correct his notes. To render them as nearly perfect as their brevity permits, they have been submitted for revision to the lecturers themselves, and may, therefore, be considered as at least fair summaries of the matter delivered by them from the lecture-desk. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.