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with his hands as well as his brain. If he can accomplish more by brain work 

 after he leaves us, well and good, we do not object; but wlietlier he can or not, 

 he will not feel above work in tlie shop or on the farm. He will do that cheer- 

 fully because he will feel there is no disgrace in it. Tiiat is the initial point in 

 the character of the young men we seek i,o send out. We want no loafers here 

 and we shall mourn over every loafer who carries our degree with him into the 

 busy world to which we accredit him. Therefore, Are ask the people of this 

 goodly State to consider the matter, and if they wish their sons to come to us 

 we will try to equip them in mind and body, and to send them back with this 

 industrial purpose. 



The second general purpose of this college is to make it an institution of 



APPLIED SCIENCE. 



The sciences deal with the non ego, more directly with that great world out- 

 side of the personality of the individual, first with the facts and then the laws 

 of the material universe, and thus they garner a harvest of comfort and 

 material wealth that is so obvious and so charming and so delightful to the 

 senses, that in this practical age we acknowledge their utility. Therefore the 

 practical man and the so-called practical sciences demand a premium. Prac- 

 tical men are paid the highest wages. The theoretical man who develops the 

 prir iples of a science is not to be ignored, but it is the man who can apply the 

 prl:,^lples evolved by the man of theory that commands the situation. This, 

 therefore, is the age of applied science. ^Applied to commerce, manufacturing, 

 and all the varied industries of modern life. The W' rld's progress is measured 

 by the bounds of its applied sciences and its prosperity by the amplitude of the 

 practical arts. For this reason we have the demand that our system of educa- 

 tion shall include both theory and its applications, and that the State shall fur- 

 nish both. 



In the line of this demand the State of Michigan has formed this college, and 

 the United States has largely endowed it. For every science taught we have 

 the aniplest facilities for its ap[)lication. For agriculture, the farm; for chem- 

 istry, laboratories and apparatus for the most minute and the most extensive 

 analysis; for botany, the museum, the greenhouses, the botanical garden-; for 

 the natural sciences, a well-stocked museum and apparatus and operating tables; 

 for landscape gardening and horticulture, the park with all its varied beauties; 

 for military tactics, a large drill room and armory, and muskets and accoutre- 

 ments; for veterinary, a museum and operating rooms; and for the mechanical 

 arts, large and fully equipped shops, with engineering, mathematical apparatus, 

 and with a complete line of apparatus to illustrate the physical sciences. In 

 all these departments, not only are the theories taught, but the application goes 

 hand in hand with the principle; skill and knowledge go together. There is 

 no institution in this land that more fully than this realizes the ideal of the 

 new system of education, " the teaching how to do by doing " At every step 

 the application enforces the principle. It, therefore, goes without contradiction 

 that a student that has taken this course not only knows as much as, but can 

 do more than, a student that has only the theoretical instruction. In this re- 

 gard we are justified in claiming for this institution a practical as well as a 

 thorough education. It is not merely a school of observation and instruction, 

 but a school where the students work in all its departments; on the farm, in 

 the park, in the garden, in the laboratories and museums, on the drill ground, 

 at the dissecting tables, and in the shops. The students are an important 



