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of Learning," which Webster defines to be " any school, college, or uni- 

 versity, where j'oung persons are instructed in the several branches of 

 learning which may qualify them for their future emplo^-ments." This 

 certainly is a perfect description of the institution we propose to estab- 

 lish. 



We have also assumed that the one hundred and fifty thousand acres 

 donated for an Industrial College will be disposed of at one dollar and 

 twerty-five cents per acre, w^hich we believe can easily be done within 

 five years, if the plan proposed in a former part of this report be fol- 

 lowed. 



There are plenty of lands in the State, of a good quality, subject to 

 sale at private entry, and if such lands be looked up and a title obtained in 

 the State, there will be found plenty of purchasers, as none of the diffi- 

 culties of title which attach to lands of every other class will attach to 

 these. The above estimate of expenses and receipts is intended as a 

 sample of what we think the Secretary's book should show in regard to 

 the financial transactions of an Industrial College adapted to the inter- 

 ests and necessities of California, say five years from the date of opening, 

 or in eighteen hundred and seventy-two. It will cost the State some 

 mone}^ to establish a college and put it in such an advanced stage of suc- 

 cess and usefulness as indicated in that time, but we believe that the 

 amount required cannot be expended to a better advantage. An insti- 

 tution of an inferior order would prove of but little benefit to any one — ■ 

 of no credit, and great expense to the State. Unless California can 

 alford to establish a first class college for the instruction of her indus- 

 trial students, then she had better not establish any at all, but continue 

 to allow her millions of money to be returned to the earth annually in 

 the future as in the past; her thousands of valuable mines to remain 

 untouched for the want of the proper skill to work them ; continue to 

 ship millions of her valuable ores to foreign countries, to be reduced b}'' 

 foreign labor and capital, and send her sons along with them to learn 

 what they ought to learn much better and cheaper at home ; to allow 

 her agriculture to languish and grow poor, to become distasteful and be 

 actuall}^ spurned and avoided by her most worthy and capable young 

 men, and continue to export millions of dollars annually for articles that 

 ought and may be produced within her borders. We believe with Mr. 

 C. L. Flint, who says, in his excellent paper on this subject, that " the 

 Industrial Colleges must at once assuine the highest rank as educational institu- 

 tions, or th''y loill prove most expensive failures.'^ 



As we have submitted an estimate of the expense of working a first 

 class college when established and equipped, and pointed out the sources 

 from which such expenses could be met, we will venture to suggest the 

 amount of means necessarj^to provide the proper buildings and organize 

 and bring the institution up to the standard indicated, within five years 

 from the date of opening, at the expiration of which time it is proposed 

 to make it sustain itself, independent of any appropriation from the 

 State Treasury other than the interest on the lands donated by Congress. 



