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be fixed by his intellectual and moral wortb, and tbe pride of profession will be 

 lost in the dignity of the man. 



" It is with a view, then, not merely to multiply the valuable products of the 

 various forms of industrial agency, but to level them up to the standard of pro- 

 fessional dignity and consideration, that the idea of Agricultural Colleges, and 

 Schools for instruction in the philosophy of the Useful Arts, has recently found 

 audience and favor with the friends of educational reform and social progress, in 

 Europe and America. 



" The Board look upon this important movement of modern civilization, as a 

 distinct demand for the enlargement of the existing University system, by adding 

 to its organization a Department for professional instruction in Agriculture and 

 the Useful Arts. For valuable as separate and isolated Agricultural Colleges 

 may be conceded to be, the expenditure which would be needed to found and 

 sustain them, would not fail, if applied to the organization and support of a 

 University Department of like purposes and ends, to accomplish tar more for the 

 indvidual, and for society. 



" By introducing the future cultivator or the artizan, during the period of his 

 professional culture, to the more liberal instructions of the University, we secure 

 to him, in the highest degree, the advantages of chemical and mechanical 

 science — of the experimental farm — of models illustrative of the industrial pro- 

 cesses — and, superadd to all these, access to the library, and collections in the 

 various branches of Natural Science ; and, in connexion with the regular classes, 

 to the lecture rooms of the Professors of the other Departments, whether colle- 

 giate or professional. 



" That it is the tendency of modern civilization, to open the advantages of 

 liberal culture to every class of human agents in the oi'ganization of society, and 

 thus to secure to itself the enlarged physical wealth, and the higher intellectual, 

 moral, and social good involved in this condition, is a truth which addresses 

 itself to every observing mind. 



" It is in the earnest conviction of this truth, and in the cordial desire that 

 Wisconsin may, at an early day, take a leading position in this movement, that 

 the Board have undertaken to demonstrate the proper relation of the University 

 to those great industrial agencies, which have hitherto been regarded almost, if 

 not altogether, without the scope of its beneficent action, and its elevating 

 influences — and have ventured to suggest the hope, that its resources may be so 

 enlarged by the public bounty, as to enable it to cover the whole ground. to 

 ■which it is entitled ; to do the entire work which it can best do, and which 

 may be justly assigned to it, and required of it in the economy of modern civili- 

 zation." 



