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JJr.]V/ii(e,of CiiUiiiVniii — 1 am opjxj.scd tu tliost- wliu wmild Knvcr 

 the staiulard of classical training in our schools. I am sure that no 

 man who has had the benefit of college culture would sell his edu- 

 cation till any terms. The ijreat men of our countiv, like lit iirv 

 Clay, who have not had these advantages in youth, have, in their 

 mature years, devoted the native energies of tiieir iiands to make uj> 

 by study what they lacked, and they have all expressed regret that 

 they did not have these advantages in youth. I.incolii did so, and 

 so lias every great mind. Oui" colleges sliuuhl i)e united, so tiiat 

 the intellect may be more fully developed, and any of the students 

 who wish to enter upon any special course of technical knowledge 

 will iind themselves better able to do so l)y reason of this higher 

 and finer training of their intellectual faculties. I trust tiie Presi- 

 dent's address will not be modified. 



^fl•. Miinson, of Texas — Tcrraculturists require technical knowl- 

 edsre. Botanv, chemistry, mineralogy, entomoloirv, ornitiudoirv. 

 each must be known to him in its scientific nomenclature, for com- 

 mon names would lead to confusion, since the common name of a 

 particular bug in one locality is very often the name of a distinct 

 bug in another place. He need not be a Greek or Latin scholar, he 

 need not be even al)le to read I^atin or Greek, but he must know 

 enougli of these things to understand the nomenclature of science, 

 otherwise he could not write, or scarcely read with intelligence, a 

 single treatise on any one of the dejiartments of agriculture or Imr- 

 tieidture. But he must also be practical, and not waste much time 

 on (ireek and Latin. In the right education of the horticuliurist 

 .scien(;e and technical training should unite. 



Mr. Van Denian, U. 8. Pomtdogist, Washington, D. C — T am 

 very sorry, Mr. President, that Mr. Fernow, chief of ihe Bureau of 

 Forestry, is not here. The forests ought to be saved. Even those 

 trees of which the gentleman from (Oregon s|)okc, which are now- 

 far out of the way of the markets of the w'orld, will soon be in the 

 market, and the trees will iiaye more value than the land, and it is 

 selfish in us to destroy and waste now what will soon be of great 

 value to tiiose who come after us. Congress ought to withdraw 

 from settlement all wild lands which are remote from roads and not 

 now needed, and save them until widening civilization renders them 



