The Hon. Stephen Van Rensselaer having established a school near the northern limits of Troy for teaching the physical sciences with their application to the arts of life; having appointed Profs. A Eaton and L. C. Beck to give courses of instruction particularly calculated to prepare operative chemists and practical naturalists properly qualified to act as teachers in villages and school districts; having appointed an agent and furnished him with funds for procuring apparatus and fitting up a laboratory, library-room, etc.; and the agent having given notice to the president of the institution that the requisite collections and preparations are completed, it seems proper to give public notice of these circumstances.
Accordingly the public is respectfully notified that everything is in readiness at the Rensselaer School for giving instruction in chemistry experimental philosophy and natural history, with their application to agriculture, domestic economy, and the arts; and also for teaching land surveying....
During the day no lectures will be given by the professors but under their superintendence the students, divided into sections, will perform all the experiments and give the explanations, the students thus acting as lecturers and the professors as auditors....
Students who wish for extra accommodations will pay from $1.75 to $2.00 a week for board and lodging. But any number of students can have good plain board and lodging near the school for $1.50 a week.