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Vols. 1-64 include extracts from correspondence.
When an ancient diary is discovered on the planet Ophius; one of Earth's five sister planets, it is revealed that the planet's earliest explorers were not from Earth, as history had taught them, but from Guiadon, a planet twelve light years away. The 800 year old diary contains the story of a forgotten group of men called "cavers" that travel to the planet Slineadora in order to hunt very dangerous mean spirited animals called trisks. The trisks are hunted for the crystal substance found in the gelatinous fluid of their brain cavity called verillium, which is a very powerful energy source that is used to operate the inner stellar gateways that connect Earth to its five sister planets. The ta...
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How has the Ontario Agricultural College contributed to Canadian education? What role has the college played in the development of agriculture since it was founded in 1874? This history of Canada's oldest agricultural college revolves around these two questions. It shows that the college's mandate has changed in its attempt to serve both education and agriculture. The Ontario Agricultural College was established to enshrine science in farming, but it also became the testing and extension arm of the provincial ministry of agriculture. Direct government control for ninety years provided financial resources not enjoyed by other post-secondary schools, but the results sometimes proved of greater benefit to agriculture than to education or science. Swept into the University of Guelph when it was created in 1964, the college rethought its role. It emerged as a centre for advanced scientific inquiry, for global agricultural programs, and for understanding rural societies. The controversies surrounding these changes and the evolving nature of agriculture and science are brought out fully in this account of the past century and a quarter.