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culture, while spending the money for many other things. I want 

 to say that when I came to look into the matter, I found that ever}' 

 dollar that has ever been ajDpropriated toward it in the State of Penn- 

 sylva'nia, has gone for exactly the purpose for which it was appro- 

 priated, and that if anybody was to blame, it was the fellows who 

 did the appropriating. Every dollar has gone to its place. 



When I first went there, I heard the same complaints in regard 

 to results under previous administrations, and this is what I found* 

 I want to say that it was a matter of some surprise to me that 

 any results could be secured under some of the administrations, 

 because of the meager support that was given them. 



You will be surprised to learn that in looking over the condition 

 of the college, I found that it is |15,000 behind in its coal bill. They 

 had either to say to the boys "you go home; we have no more money 

 to keep you warm," or to borrow money to keep them warm. The 

 bill that was presented to the House a few weeks ago contained 

 this item of |15,000, and I think it is clear to the world that there 

 must be heat and light for the boys, and that they must be paid 

 for. I have been comparing the support in this State towards the 

 Department of Agriculture, with other states. There are men here 

 who can give these items better than I can, but when we compare 

 the appropriations in Pennsylvania with those in Iowa and Ohio, 

 it should make everybody in Pennsylvania who has anything to 

 do with appropriations ashamed. That we have not been doing 

 great things, is due more to the fact that while the rest of the 

 world has been moving on, we have been standing still in Penn- 

 sylvania. We have not been supporting Agriculture. It is true 

 that large sums of money have been appropriated by the State to 

 the college for other purposes, but the reason for this is that there 

 has been a great pressure on the part of these boys to go into these 

 other departments. For instance, they have a school there called 

 the School of Engineering, which includes Electrical, Mechanical and 

 Civil Engineering. It is calculated for four hundred students, and 

 there are six hundred in it now, and more want to come in. The 

 appropriation there has been entirely too meager to take care 

 of what has been done, and is doing there now. 



The other day, just to see how many of these boys represented 

 the soil of Pennsylvania, I looked for the number of boys in the 

 Department of Agriculture, and found them about one hundred 

 and fifty to one hundred and seventy-five as against nine hundred 

 in the other departments. Now, under the laws of the United 

 States Government, and the laws of Pennsylvania, the Pennsyl 

 vania State College was established for the purpose of encouraging 

 Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, and for extending the liberal 

 education along other lines that are now being emphasized by the 

 United States Government. It is right that the State of Pennsyl- 

 vania should give to the young men the all-round education provided 

 for under the law, and I am here tonight on your invitation, and I 

 want to plead for all the departments of the Pennsylvania State 

 College, all and every one of them: The Department of Agriculture, 

 the Department of Mathematics, the Department of Literature, 

 of Engineering, the School of Political Economy, all have in view 

 one common good, and these departments are knit together, one 



