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We are proud of onr St-ate University, and would do it no harm. 

 The State ought to support it liberally, but it ought not to take the 

 money appropriated by the United States government for another pur- 

 pose. The Board of Curators send us a man every year to make us a 

 nice speech, full of fair promises, yet they do nothing for us. It is in 

 the power of the State Legislature to do something for us. 



G. W. Waters — If a young man goes to the State University and 

 is able and willing to fight his way through, he can get an agricultural 

 education. This department is overshadowed by the regular Univer- 

 sity. In the catalogue there are 235 students put down as belonging 

 to the Agricultural department, but 99 per cent of them would take it 

 as an insult if you asked them if they were students in the Agricul- 

 tural college. All that are in the Military school are classed as agri- 

 cultural students. No citizen of the State can stand there and see 

 those buildings without being proud of them. I believe the State 

 ought to support the University, but I don't believe success of ihe 

 Agricultural department can be reached under the overshadowing in- 

 fluence of the other departments. Many a young man is weaned away 

 from his purpose of getting a good farm education. Many men will 

 not send their sons there on this account. 



Prof. Whitten — Being a member of the Agricultural College 

 Faculty, it is embarrassing for me to speak. lam heartily in sympathy 

 with the work of horticulture, and I think it is possible for a student, 

 even now, to get a good agricultural education at Columbia. I have 

 taken occasion to visit those departments in which are taught the arts 

 and sciences relating to agriculture. They have men just suited to the 

 work. I believe the teacher of biology is one of the best in the coun- 

 try ; so of the other teachers; but I must admit the students are not 

 there. There are a few, and among them are some good strong students. 

 Cornell is one of the leading colleges of the country, and I believe we 

 have some students that would compare with those of Cornell. I 

 would not say anything that would detract from the work of horticul- 

 ture in the State, but I do say that I believe students can get compe- 

 tent instruction along this line at the State University at Columbia, 

 even as now organized. 



N. F. Murray — I ask permission to say a few words. In the last 

 session of the Legislature I had opportunity to know something of 

 the working of these institutions at Columbia. I was in favor of sepa- 

 rating the Agricultural college and the Experiment station from the 

 University proper. I went on to say that they had never given any 

 good results, and that the moneys belonging to the College and the 

 Station were being used to support the other departments of the Uni- 



