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many cases, to fit themselves for the business of a professional 

 life, to spend two years in the discipline and drill, in learning 

 how to learn things from nature, in the Storrs Agricultural 

 School. [Applause.] 



Mr. Hubbard. I want to say one word more in regard to 

 this matter. I want farmers to remember that this school 

 was established for their benefit. They have boys enough to 

 fill it, and they are not to be crowded out by anybody. 



Mr. Augur Our friend, Mr. Hubbard, has suggested the 

 idea that farmers' boys probably will not all remain on the 

 farm, and that those who have rural tastes should be selected 

 and sent to the agricultural school. Well, I have sometimes 

 noticed, and I suppose you all have who have visited the sea- 

 shore, a wave sometimes coming away up on the shore, and 

 then there is a revulsion back again. The thought occurred 

 to me that there are city boys, and probably there is a differ- 

 ence in tastes among city boys as well as country boys, and 

 while some country boys will necessarily drift into the city, 

 the question is whether some city boys may not very naturally 

 revert back to the country. "It is a poor rule that will not 

 work both ways," and I think there will be no possible 

 objection to a good, smart city boy going to the Mansfield 

 school. 



Mr. HiNMAN. It is very rarely that I have occasion to 

 differ from my friend Hubbard, but I want to enter my pro- 

 test against the idea that the Storrs School is a school for 

 farmers' boys alone. It is for the State of Connecticut. I 

 should be sorry to have it understood that that school was 

 only for the benefit of farmers; that it is something estab- 

 lished for their particular gratification and benefit, as a sop 

 given to them to make them satisfied that everything is going 

 on well in this State. I do not think the General Assembly 

 had any such idea in providing it. I think that certainly no 

 such idea should go abroad. I am confident that Mr. Hub- 

 bard, on second thought, will agree with me in that matter. 



The Chairman. It has been said that the tendency of agri- 

 cultural schools has been to lead the boys away from the 



