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can get out of it. And I think, furthermore, that the place 

 which our students will aim to occupy, and the natural place 

 which they will occupy, is on farms of their own, be they 

 larger or smaller. What they learn at the school is not of a 

 character to make them advisers, particularly, of other farm- 

 ers, nor to constitute them experts in agricultural chemistry, 

 or any kindred subject, but simply to give them such com- 

 mand of the forces of nature that they can use them for their 

 own ends, on farms of their own. How they are to get such 

 farms is not a problem that is given to the school to solve, 

 particularly. 



Furthermore, it appears to me that another inducement 

 which we can offer them is in those mental advantages which 

 flow from a good education of any sort whatever ; those ad- 

 vantages which cannot always be measured in dollars and 

 cents, but which are in the man himself, in his character, and 

 in the place that he, by reason of his character and attain- 

 ments, can hold in the community. We hope that the young 

 men whom we graduate will become leaders in the commu- 

 nities where they dwell, and that they will be able so to 

 apply to farming what they have learned in the school that 

 they will become, to a great extent, patterns and models for 

 those about them. Not that they will set themselves up as 

 models — at least, we hope not — but that they will naturally 

 become so, because they will become better and more success- 

 ful farmers than others who have not been privileged with the 

 same advantages. 



Mr. J. M. Hubbard, of Middletown. I wonder if it would 

 not be a good thing for us all to study to become ministers, 

 doctors or lawyers, if every man who undertakes to fit him- 

 self for those professions and gets his diploma finds an 

 " assured position in the community," and that nothing de- 

 pends on his own exertions ! If his place is fixed, and fixed 

 high up, I think the whole community better take that course. 

 It is not so. Not one of us who looks about him, but can see 

 people who have fitted themselves for doctors, lawyers, and 

 ministers, who have not "found their places fixed for them;" 



