STATE INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE. 



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Our President has said that the college is not a professional 

 institution, that it is designed to give a broad, liberal culture ; 

 and yet, notwithstanding its course is broad and comprehensive, 

 and designed to liberally educate the young men, the effort has 

 been made, and undoubtedly will be. continued to give these young 

 men, to a considerable extent, a professional training while there. 

 I remember that when Mr. Willard was teaching upon dairy 

 farming, and instructing those boys in what he knew in regard to 

 dairying, he took them into a cheese-room, and gave them practi- 

 cal instruction in the making of cheese, and those boys made 

 cheese and took a great deal of pleasure in it ; they learned the 

 art so that they can make cheese as well as any women. The 

 design is, as it has been heretofore, while giving to the students 

 this liberal culture that has been alluded to, to give them as much 

 training as possible in the practical avocations of life. 



But, as was stated by our President, it is necessary, as you are 

 all very well aware, in order to become really competent in the 

 profession of farming, that a man devote his life to it, the same as 

 it is necessary for a man to devote himself during his lifetime to 

 any trade or profession in which he would be proficient. But the 

 young men there have an opportunity afforded them of laboring 

 three hours a day, and we are able to direct that labor so that it 

 shall have some reference to what their future work is to be. On 

 entering the institution we expect the young men to engage in 

 whatever labor can be provided for them. Those young men go 

 on the farm and work just the same as any man works on a farm. 

 They are ready to make fences, to build wall, to dig drains, to 

 attend to planting, to sowing, to orcharding and garden work — 

 they do anything and everything that is done upon a farm. They 

 attend to the milking whenever it is required. An arrangement 

 has been made that the young men of a certain class shall take it 

 upon themselves to milk the cows for the term, and they are paid 

 a certain amount for it. They have that as their regular duty. 

 That is, the three hours' labor that we require of every one, they 

 devote in that way. So that these young man, while they are 

 getting this liberal culture which is to fit them for the duties of 

 citizenship, are acquiring practice in whatever appertains to hor- 

 ticltural and agricultural work. 



After a time, opportunity is afforded them to direct their labor 

 somewhat with reference to their future work. The course of 

 study is now divided. It will be remembered that when the 



