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just to leave it in the hands of the Board of Trustees. I think 

 thej are qualified to do the right thing. 



MR. BROSIUS: Mr. Chairman, it seems to me that we would be 

 very unfit to recommend anyone for those positions. To-day the 

 college does stand as one of the leading colleges of the State, while 

 many men who work along agricultural lines think it has been di- 

 verted from its original intent, to make an agrfcultural college. Any- 

 one that has read the law — the Morrill law — will find that it was 

 intended to help develop Pennsylvania in all her great industries; 

 and while it is perhaps true that it can do better than it has done 

 in the past, yet many of us who live a hundred miles or more from 

 the college are hardly fitted to judge of its needs, therefore, I agree 

 with our friend here that the wise way is to allow the Trustees to 

 take care of the college. 



MR. HERR: Mr. Chairman, the subject is one of very great in- 

 terest to me, and ought to be to every member of the State Board of 

 Agriculture, and I feel that I am justified in saying, on behalf of 

 the Board of Trustees, that I believe it is their purpose to strengthen 

 the agricultural department of that college all they know how. I 

 believe they are working with a common purpose to that end. 



The Pennsylvania State College is our college and we are inter- 

 ested in it. It is a great institution and it has a very high standing 

 with a strong corps of professors in the faculty, which it must 

 necessarily have, and it must maintain an efficient corps of in- 

 structors throughout. 



I want to tell you most emphatically that you can't appreciate 

 and do not know the amount of expense incurred to keep up its 

 present efiSciency. 



We are burdened with debt and I want to say this to you, that 

 the appropriations that come from the Legislature, the great bulk 

 of them, are specific. They can only go for the special purpose for 

 which they are appropriated. We can't apply them to making the 

 college more efficient, and building it up, increasing the strength 

 of the faculty, and increasing the facilities for education there. 

 With the increased number of students who come there every year, 

 they need much greater facilities. While they have some eight 

 hundred students, they are only properly equipped for about two 

 hundred or two hundred and fifty, and without additional appropria- 

 tions for general purposes instead of specific ones, as has usually 

 been the case, it is impossible with the debt now existing to make 

 the college what it should be, and it is up to you farmers to see to 

 it that the men whom you elect to the Legislature be made to under- 

 stand the situation and give us more money for general purposes. 



All over the State I hear it said: "Why, Carnegie gave you $150,- 

 000; Schwab gave you another .f 150, 000 and yet you say you want 

 more money." They forget that this all entails additional expense 

 to the college to take care of these new buildings that have been 

 erected and to properly equip them. I want you to instruct your 

 members of the Legislature that we must have more money for 

 maintenance and for equipment; that is where we are lame. We 

 are doing the very best we can, and accounting for every dollar 

 of the money that is spent there, but we must have larger appro- 

 priations for the purposes I have stated. The Agricultural Depart- 



