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» rich and public-spirited enough to add to the endowment five hundred 

 and fifty thousand dollars cash, thus relieving- the necessity for an 

 immediate sale of the lands, which, carefully located and selected under 

 his supervision, exceed in value at the present time two and a half 

 millions of dollars. Ezra Cornell has thus founded an institution, where, 



#to use his own language, " any person can receive instruction in any 

 study," a college for the whole people. 



CALIFORNIA AND THE UNIVERSITY. 



The State of California, accepting her share of the nation's gift, has, 

 by a wise legislation, made it the foundation of the colleges of her State 

 University. The University completes the State educational system^ 

 and is the crown and summit of that noble edifice of free instruction, 

 which guarantees to every child the general culture and special training 

 necessary to energize and economize, to lighten and enlighten all labor, 

 until the measure of service shall become the measure of greatness. , 

 This 'is as it should be, but it is not for the interest of California, it is 

 not for the interest of her farmers and mechanics, that the matter should 

 stop here. There are colleges enough for general culture; every 

 denomination has its own -where the common lea;acv of literature and 

 science is received through some one of the many colored theological 

 lenses, and of whose graduates it is estimated that not more than one per 

 cent ever fill the industrial ranks. West of the Rocky Mountains there 

 was not one industrial college to take 3 T our children from the public 

 schools, carry them forward so that every step may tell upon their life 

 business, and at the same time show them its wide relations to other 

 pursuits and to the public welfare, thus fitting them for citizenship. ISTor 

 was there until October third, eighteen hundred and seventy, in all this 

 broad land a single school, or college, or university adapted for the suit- 

 able training of farmers' and mechanics' wives. I am ashamed that in 

 matters of education we have so long behaved as if it "were better for 

 man to be alone in his higher life," condemning him to an intellectual 

 celibacy. Perhaps this accounts for the unproductiveness and unprofit- 

 ableness of so much of his work. But from whatever other walk of life 

 we may exclude woman, she is as indispensable to the last as she was to 

 the first farmer. And if ever toil and care lose their wrinkles, and 

 labor is ennobled and sanctified, it will be through her help and ministry. 

 The higher education will never be complete until the science of house- 

 wifery is as thoroughly taught as the science of husbandry. 



It affords me great pleasure to add in this connection that our State 

 University now joins hands with all the great progressive institutions of 

 the world in saying to the daughters, as well as the sons of California, 

 " any person may rind instruction here in any study." No sooner had 

 the Eegents put the institution in working order and fully organized its 

 courses of instruction than they welcomed the first young lady applicants, 

 and that, too, without a dissenting voice. 



The University of California proposes to furnish all the youth of the 

 State with a theoretical education leading toward industrial pursuits, 

 and to exhibit its practical application to the culture of our varied pro- 

 duets, and the development of our mineral wealth, and makes this edu- 

 cation forever free. It proposes to gather, at convenient seasons, those 

 interested in special cultures for mutual instruction and encouragement; 



