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Institution, how pleased we all are to have your association come 

 here to us. I hope that this is only the beginning of the use 

 that the people of the State will make of the University build- 

 ings and grounds. There is always room here, and much of the 

 time, especially in the summer, we are lonesome after the stu- 

 dents are gone, and we should be glad to have the whole State 

 use these buildings and grounds as they are, as their own prop- 

 erty. — come here and have their meetings of associations, or 

 even, if you please, merely picnics. I want the people of the 

 State to be so familiar with this Institution, in its appearance 

 and in its workings and in its plans of work, that they may know, 

 wherever they may live, exactly what their State University is 

 trying to do. 



The statement of the laws is so clear and so plain that this 

 institution was to be for the benefit of everybody, old and 

 young, rich and poor, occupied in farming, industrial enter- 

 prises, lumbering, professions, or what not. that I wish to repeat 

 it constantly, — that the University of Maine, as it is now, and 

 State College as it was, is not only to supply a college course in 

 agriculture and the mechanic arts, but, as the law says, it is to 

 furnish a liberal and practical education to the industrial classes 

 in the several pursuits and professions of life. And we are all 

 "the industrial classes." and "the several pursuits and profes- 

 sions of life" cover the occupations of every one of us. There- 

 fore this institution is for us all. 



You are here from all parts of the State. I see before me a 

 man from East Machias. in the extreme east of the State : an- 

 other man from Farmington and that is almost as far west as 

 we can go ; and I think there are people here from Caribou, and 

 I know there are others from near the coast at the south. So 

 after all, although the company is not as large as we hoped it 

 would be, it does represent every possible part of the State. I 

 hope we may be able in the future to be more useful than we 

 have been in the past. I hope that our Experiment Station 

 and our departments in the various agricultural and horticultural 

 lines will be able not only to answer questions but to furnish the 

 latest information that can be obtained, whether we have it here 

 or not, or obtain it from anywhere in the world where it may 

 exist, to give to you, and have you feel that it is your right to 

 ask for anything that can be furnished from an institution for the 



