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to do, and to its credit be it said, in the darkest hour of the struggle to 

 preserve the national existence. 



The amount of benefit which each State will receive depends entirely 

 upon the intelligent administration of the fund thence derived, the good 

 faith in which the spirit of the act is carried out, and the hearty coope- 

 ration of the people. The proceeds from the sale of the lands has not 

 yet been sufficient to put any of the institutions founded upon or assisted 

 by the grant in full working order. The Empire State having the largest 

 representation got the lion's share, and had a citizen 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 selected and located under his supervision, now 

 exceed in value two and a half millions of dollars! 



Ezra Cornell has thus, with the help of the General Government, 

 founded an institution where " any man can receive instruction in any 

 study" — a college for the whole people. Where is the Ezra Cornell of 

 the Pacific coast? 



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

 by a wise legislation made it the foundation of one of the colleges of the 

 State University. The University completes the State educational 

 system, and is the e*rown and summit of that noble- edifice of free 

 instruction which guaranties to every child the general culture and 

 special training uecessary to energize and economise, to lighten and 

 enlighten all labor. 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 end here. 



There are colleges enough for general culture; every denomination 

 has its own, where the common legacy of literature and science is 

 i*eceived through some of the many colored theological lenses, and of 

 whose graduates it is estimated that not more than one per cent ever fill your 

 ranks. West of the Eocky Mountains there was not one industrial col- 

 lege ready to take your children from the public or high school, so that 

 every step may tell upon their life business, and at the same time show 

 them its wide relation to other pursuits and to the public welfare thus 

 fitting them for citizenship. Nor was there until October third, eighteen 

 hundred and seventy, a single school, or college, or university adapted for 

 the suitable training of farmers or 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 unprofitableness 

 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; nor 

 will the higher education ever be complete until the science of house- 

 wifery is as thoroughly taught as the science of husbandly. 



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

 State with a theoretical education leading towards industrial pursuits, and 

 to exhibit the practical applications of science to the culture of our 

 varied products, the development of our mineral w T ealth, and our manu- 

 factures. It makes this education forever free, and admits young 

 women to all its general and special advantages. Its competitive 

 scholarships are open to all. 



