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uates are identified with industrial institutions as professors of chem- 

 istry, botany, zoology, physics, entomology, agriculture, horticulture and 

 A'eterinary science in probabl}' three-fourths of the states and territories. 

 Thus her influence has gone out to almost all parts of this great nation. 

 Xor is this all. She has left her impress upon the agriculture of Japan 

 and Australia. 



M. A. C. has made her influence for a better agriculture felt in many 

 wa3's; through her excellent courses of study; through her professors in 

 their work as instructors, as members of scientific associations, as lectur- 

 ers before Farmers' Clubs, Granges and Farmers' Institutes, and in their 

 personal contact with practical farmers; through her graduates who have 

 returned to the farm or engaged in teaching agriculture or sciences re- 

 lating thereto; and last, but not least, through those students who, 

 though they have not retui-ned to the farm, are e^er ready to champion 

 the cause of scientific farming and thus help to create and enlighten pub- 

 lic sentiment congenial to the continued growth of rational agriculture. 



All hail to M. A. C! ^'She hath wrought a good work.'' May she 

 continue to labor with the same intelligence and zeal and with constantly 

 increasing efficienc}' for the enlightenment and prosperity of the farmers 

 of the State and nation. The encouraging record of the past forty years 

 should inspire new ho}>e for the future. "NA'ith the united loyal support 

 of the ofiic(M's and facult}'. alumni and students, the institution should go 

 forward with accelerating pace and increasing power and influence for 

 good in promoting the cause of rational and successful agriculture. 



ALUMNI MEETING. 



The triennial meeting of the alumni was held in the chapel, Thursday, 

 June 17, at 10 o'clock a. m. 



President of the association, M. D. Chatterton, with '01, gave a some- 

 what lengthy address, of which we give, very briefly, the principal points: 



"The past and the present meet here today on a common ground. We 

 who are older remember the past vividly, for we are deeply indebted to 

 our instruction here, under Williams, Abbot, Holmes, and Tracv. But 

 at these alumni meetings we should have some other ])urpose than talk- 

 iny over the old days and sw^apping college yarns. We all have the good 

 of the College at heart. If we had legal rights and power in the manage- 

 ment of the College these reunions would be great events for the College. 

 I can see the immense dift'erence between the College of '.57 and '1)7. I 

 see the immense difference in the plant, but I don't see as many students 

 as I would like to see here. 



A couple of years ago a committee of the College made a report of the 

 condition of affairs. I do not think they hit upon the real cause of lack 

 of students. In my opinion the College is handicapped by a law passed 

 nearly forty years ago. I believe that: 1. The system of compulsory 

 manual labor should be discontinued or greatly modified. Purely physi- 

 cal labor, as such, should be unknown except by consent. 2. The Board 

 of Control should be named by the alumni. 

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