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means for the one, hundreds or thousands can enjoy the benefits of 

 the other. The new education is therefore a truly democratic, 

 thoroughly young American movement for levelling up the indus- 

 trial classes to a plane which was formerly unattainable by them. 



The ten years which have passed since 1862 have demonstrated 

 some points with regard to those institutions beyond all perad- 



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venture. In the first place, it is shown that they are capable of 

 accomplishing and are actually doing a good, a great and a much 

 needed work *, next, that they trench upon the sphere of no other 

 colleges ; and lastly, that the endowment is greatly inadequate to 

 their present and prospective wants. We cannot think this 

 strange, for at that time very few, if any, realized the magnitude 

 of the work undertaken. An error was also committed in the 

 apportionment, for it was based upon representation in Congress 

 at that time, or in other words, upion the then existing population, 

 without reference to area, or probable future growth. The want 

 of larger means has already been severely felt by the institutions 

 in many of the States, and by none more than by our own, and 

 efforts have not been wanting to have them increased. 



A bill is now pending in Congress to devote one-half the pro- 

 ceeds of the sales of public lands to the creation of a fund, the 

 principal of which is to be held by the United States, which shall 

 gradually accumulate until its income reaches fifty thousand dol- 

 lars annually for each State. It would probably require a long 

 time for this amount to be fully reached, but a good degree of 

 relief would speedily follow its passage, and the income would 

 annually increase, with the growth of the institutions, until it 

 became sufficient to accomplish a work, the real, substantial 

 utility and blessing of which to the whole people, it is beyond the 

 power of language adequately to set forth. 



S. L. GOODALE, 



Secretary Board of Agriculture. 

 January, 1873. 



