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SO much as show its nose inside the college door. I am not 

 going to call your attention to the fact that we have a perma- 

 nent institution much further than I have already done. It is 

 true that we could run that institution after a fashion if you 

 did not give us another dollar; but we could not run it as the 

 citizens of Connecticut must desire, or as the nation expects, 

 the nation which says that you have made a contract that you 

 will run the college creditably. I am not going into those 

 things any further. 



But I want you to come and see us, get a first-hand knowl- 

 edge of the institution, and then pronounce your judgment 

 upon us. Come and see what we need, and hear the reason 

 why we shall ask for the means to meet those needs. I am 

 not going to name the figure, but I think I can promise you, 

 ladies and gentlemen, that at the next session of the General 

 'Assembly we shall make a call for an appropriation which will 

 go down deep into your pocket-book. 



Now here is another thing, and with that I am done. It 

 has been said that the farmers of Connecticut, taken one by 

 one, consider the State college a very good institution for the 

 other man's boy. Mark my words, you must make that in- 

 stitution an educational institution for your own boy if it is 

 ever to amount to anything. Send your boys up there, and if 

 we make mistakes tell us where we are wrong. We have some 

 gray-haired men, and some men with a sprinkling of gray 

 hairs, as members of the faculty, but there is not a man among 

 them who is not young enough to take a common-sense sug- 

 gestion. And I ask you to believe that the common sense of 

 the State is not confined to the people outside altogether of 

 the State college. Give us your suggestions. Do not give 

 them to each other, but give them to' us. We want to use 

 them, and we wil], use them if you will give us the opportunity. 

 Do not go around and say to other people that this, that, and 

 the other thing is not as it should be; but come straight to the 

 executive. I do not care whether you come to the acting 

 president this year, or go to the president next year, or when- 

 ever he may be appointed; it is safe to guarantee, — supposing 

 that you were in that position, — it is safe to guarantee that 

 any sane man in that position will be glad of suggestions. 

 Give us your advice; help us all you can in that way, and go 

 hand in hand with us in an effort to make this institution a sue- 



