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where the judges will put them. They are thrown in contact with some 

 of the most expert stockmen that we have in the State, and when there 

 are fifty or seventy-five to be judged, our boys will place the first three in 

 their order— in the order that any good judge would put them. They do 

 this because they have not only the theory but the practice. So there 

 is practice in stock judging, corn judging, butter making, etc. All the 

 way along we link theory with practice. 



The nest point I wish to emphasize is college training. This adds to 

 the power of judgment in life, and I think we live for these things. First, 

 to provide the necessaries of life; and second, to prepare ourselves for the 

 hereafter. So the college training adds something to the dollar and cent 

 side, and also to the power of enjoyment in life, and gives us a better 

 understanding of the hereafter, and a better understanding of nature. I 

 would not dare tell you how old I was before I knew that there were any 

 other birds besides robins and crows. My father and mother did not 

 have the instinct of teachers, to teach and say things about the birds. 

 And yet, as I have ridden out through the country with a friend of mine 

 who is well versed in such things, I have often thought to myself, that 

 he gets more genuine pleasure out of his knowledge of birds than I can 

 express. 



I do not know much about pictures. I went to the Chicago World's 

 Pair, and you will remember that there was a tremendous big building 

 devoted to pictures. I walked through every room of that building in 

 less than two hours. I was doing the Art Department. But just as I was 

 going to leave one of the rooms I heard a crowd of people commenting 

 on one of the pictures. I thought that here was my chance to learn some- 

 thing, so I stopped and again looked at this picture. They commented on 

 the lines of expression on that boy's face as he was going away from 

 home, and the look of sorrow on the face of the mother. To me it was 

 just like wiping the dust off of that picture. I learned more In that five 

 minutes about pictures than I have ever learned before or since. And 

 pictures have had a new meaning to me ever since. 



There is another phase in this college work. No one can go to a col- 

 lege and mix up with the teachers and the boys and girls without rubbing 

 off just a little of some of the rough corners that stick out. It will polish 

 you up. It enables one to meet friends with more satisfaction. It does 

 more than that. It gives a host of friends for lifetime. The best friends 

 that most of us make are made during the time we are in college. I see 

 in the audience tonight men who have been to college. Ask them tonight 

 if some of the friends that they are so anxious about, and inquire about, 

 are not college friends. There is a training given here that enables us to 

 grapple with the problems and understand the principles so that we save 

 our strength and not waste it. Then we have a certain amount of prac- 

 tice that clinches it, and makes us broader men, and gives us more of an 

 interest in our life work. Here is an illustration. A young woman came 



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