. Resources of the state of Arkansas : with description of counties, railroads, mines, and the city of Little Rock / by James P. Henry . are engaged in manual labor from two tothree hours each day—the boys in gardening, improving thegrounds, preparing wood, etc. The girls are instructed overan hour each day in sewing, and, beside, engage in otherhousehold employments. STATE ASYLUM FOR THE BLIND. The number of pupils in attendance June 29, 1872, was 35,of whom 30 were white and 5 colored Of the whites, 8 weremale and 22 females : of the colored, 4 were male and 1female. The branches of study pu
. Resources of the state of Arkansas : with description of counties, railroads, mines, and the city of Little Rock / by James P. Henry . are engaged in manual labor from two tothree hours each day—the boys in gardening, improving thegrounds, preparing wood, etc. The girls are instructed overan hour each day in sewing, and, beside, engage in otherhousehold employments. STATE ASYLUM FOR THE BLIND. The number of pupils in attendance June 29, 1872, was 35,of whom 30 were white and 5 colored Of the whites, 8 weremale and 22 females : of the colored, 4 were male and 1female. The branches of study pursued by the pupils arereading, writing, arithmetic, geography, English grammar,history of the United States, algebra, astronomy, pliysiology,vocal and instrumental music and calisthenics, with the con-stitutiens of the state and United States. In the mechanicaldepartment are made mattresses, brooms, cane-seat chairs,bead-work, etc. The institution has a brass band, which isreported as doing well. Applications for admission must bemade to Otis Patten, Little Rock, Arkansas. KESOURCES OF ARKANSAS. ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL i^m OBJECTS, MANAGEMEis^T, AND STUDIES PURSUEDAT THE UNIVERSITY. This institution is established in accordance with an act otcongress making a grant of land as an endowment for itsbenefit, and in accordance with an act of the general assemblyof this state carrying out the object of said grant. Accordingto the language of the grant, the leading object shall be,without excluding other scientific and classical studies, andincluding military tactics, to teach such branches of learningas are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in order topromote the liberal and practical education of the industrialclasses in the several pursuits and professions of life; or,changmg the order of the statement, the chief aim of the uni-versity is, the liberal and education of the industrialrlasses in the several pursuits and professions of life; andin ord
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