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and tliat year increased his strawi)erry crop five times. Jnsl one 

 weelc of six days be was tliere. 1 want tlie help of all of you as far 

 as your infiuence goes with the Pennsylvania oOicials. We had 

 twenty of their leading men at the college this week. They know 

 that the railroad has got to haul something besides })eople in order 

 to pay dividends. They have hauled about all the timber they will 

 haul out of Pennsylvania lor some years. They know that the min- 

 ing resources are exhaustible. What else is the road going to haul? 

 It must depend upon what it produces from the soil because that 

 is everlasting. The farmer is the producer. The railroads under- 

 stand that now. I suppose there are twelve demands on file now 

 at the college to run these farmers' instruction trains over different 

 roads in this State. Every division superintendent is alive to this. 



To-morrow there will arrive at the Pennsylvania State College 

 forty-five men coming in a special train from the Cumberland Val- 

 ley. They are going to stay there two days. Who are they? They 

 are the station agents, and the railroad is sending them there at 

 its own expense and going to keep them there for two days. Why? 

 So they can go back home and be agricultural missionaries. They 

 ex})ect these station agents to tell the farmers what they have seen 

 at State College. They are wakening up to that. I want jowr help 

 as far as it may be in this thought of trying to get them better rail- 

 road facilities so that the people may reach the college and get their 

 information direct and in that way your work will be supplemented 

 by their personal observation. 



Another point I want to make. We are coming to another ses- 

 sion of the State Legislature. The Pennsylvania State College is a 

 dependent State institution. It has no permanent endowment. The 

 proceeds of the |12,000 Mr. Carnegie gave, goes to pay the room rent 

 and incidentals of the scholarships. From the United States gov- 

 ernment land grant proceeds, the State pays the interest on |500,000. 

 What a pitiful foundation for the child of the rich State of Penn- 

 sylvania, Yesterday I read that Princeton gets |10,000,000. If we 

 only could get one million. Who is going to give us |10. 000,000? 

 The colleges that get the money are located in or near the cities and 

 the money is in the cities. If the man in the country does make 

 money he takes the first train for the city. We cannot expect much 

 in this State in the way of endowment. We have to depend year 

 after year on the session of the General Assembly and you men and 

 women have been loyal in your support of your State College, The 

 criticism is they say we demand more and more money. Why? Be- 

 cause the students are coming more and more to this free school. 

 Do you realize that the attendance has doubled in five years? Every 

 additional student is an additional burden because he does not pay 

 any tuition? If we could get an average of |900 a year for 1,400 

 students the problem of maintenance would be solved. We had 

 458 Freshmen enter this last year. Next year it looks like 600. 

 We have recitation rooms in the garrets and basements and every- 

 where trying to take care of them. We don't want to turn them 

 away. This increased sum of money has got to go for an increased 

 number of teachers, increased machinery. Some of the buildings 

 are good imitations of wooden structures, with tarpaper roofs, — 

 temporary buildings. And above all the School of Agriculture 

 is growing! Over 400 students this year and twenty-five graduates. 



