638 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Dr. Edwards presented to F. W. Robison, '98 of the Union Literary 

 Society, a handsome set of Larned's History of Ready Reference" as an 

 award for being best orator in the College Oratorical Contest, held June 

 10th. 



President Snyder then gave a short address to the graduating class and 



on behalf of the faculty and Board of Agriculture conferred the degree 



of Bachelor of Science upon each whose name here appears: 



Bertha Baker, Mary Baker, 



Jennette Carpenter, T. A. Chittenden, 



E. A. Calkins, George Campbell, 



C. A. Gower, H. A. Hagadorn, 



D. J. Hale, T. J. Hankinson, 



E. Pearl Kedzie, W. J. Merkel, 

 H. L. Mills, R. E. Morrow, 



A. M. Patriarche, George Richmond. 



F. W. Robison, Dewey A. Seeley, 

 H. C. Skeels, O. W. Slayton, 

 Clara M. Steele, Charles Townsend, 

 F. V. Warren, Catherine Watkins, 

 F. T. Williams, F. T. Woodworth. 



The degree of Master of Science was conferred upon Victor H. Lowe, 

 '91, and Amy B. Vaughn, '97; and the degree of Doctor of Science upon 

 Dr. R. C. Kedzie. 



THE ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION. 



BY F. R. HUTTON, M. E., PH. D. OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE, NEW YORK. 



It gives me great pleasure, ladies and gentlemen and graduates of the 

 Michigan Agricultural College, to be the choice of your President for the 

 opportunities of this occasion. I bring you today not only the salutations 

 from an Eastern sister in education on the seaboard, but I bring you 

 these salutations at a period of signal significance in the history of our 

 great country. I come to you at a time when America, as these United 

 States staDd for it, has been brought by the successes achieved by its 

 agriculture on the one side and its engineering on the other — and your 

 institution stands for the progress of America upon both of these founda- 

 tions — to a point where the responsibility has been forced upon us by the 

 governance of a higher power to bear a hand in the solving of the world 

 problem of development and civilization. We are an industrial and com- 

 mercial nation, whose strength and whose interest lie in world-wide 

 peace. And yet, almost in our own despite, we have had to take our 

 share to bring about the transition from the mediaevalism of provincial 

 mismanagement and abuse inherited under the feudal system and help to 

 usher in the new era which dawns when the period of national home- 

 rule begins under conscientious and faithful captains of industry. 



It may be remembered that at the Golden Gate which entered the build- 

 ing of the Chicago Exposition, devoted to the appliances for transporta- 

 tion, there were to be found these pregnant words, quoted from Lord 

 Bacon: "There are three things which make a nation great and pros- 

 perous: A fertile land; busy work shops, and free transportation of men 

 and things from place to place." 



