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We cannot use our national funds for things that are going 

 to do the State credit, except for instructors and certain 

 facihties for instruction. 



If you want new buildings, if you want the brush cut, if 

 you want the stones upon the farm blasted and cleared away, 

 if you want to keep the water on the outside of the buildings 

 when the east wind blows, if you want to keep tight roofs, 

 if you want a model horse barn and a model cow barn, if you 

 want dormitories that will provide more pleasant homes for 

 your sons, and increased accommodations for your daughters, 

 you must give us more money. You must do it! We are 

 going to consider this matter pretty carefully, and decide 

 slowly, but when we go before your committee on appropria- 

 tions at the next General Assembly we want you to hold up 

 our hands in the reasonable demands which we shall make at 

 that time for new buildings, for appropriations which shall 

 enable us to do something more than live along from hand to 

 mouth, and which shall give us the means for making some 

 permanent improvements. 



I am sorry that the gentleman whom I referred to, and 

 who came from this city to visit us, is not here to speak for 

 himself, as he thought he might be able to do. Before he 

 went away from the College that day I asked him to give his 

 candid judgment about our institution. I said to him: 

 " You have said some good things about it; now, what is 

 the worst thing you can say?" He replied: " It is no dis- 

 credit to you, but it is a discredit to the State: I am aston- 

 ished," he said, " to find that the State of Connecticut has an 

 institution within its borders for which it has been responsible 

 for more than twenty years, and which has been allowed to get 

 into the condition upon the exterior in which the Connecticut 

 Agricultural College finds itself today." 



Why, we had just had a heavy rain storm, and the water 

 came through into what ought to be our best-looking room — 

 the President's room, the room where we receive our guests. 

 The water had come in all along the ceiling, and it is all 

 marred and streaked, and what in the world we are going 

 to do before summer, I do not know. He saw that, and that 

 is one of the things which he referred to. Some of our build- 

 ings shake badly in the wind. I have heard one of our gradu- 

 ates say, — I never have verified the matter, — that the boys 



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