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delivered some years ago by Mr. Burdette, telling how he and 

 General Grant conducted the campaign in the spring of 1865. 

 His lecture began somewhat as follows : " In the early spring 

 of 1865 General Grant and I, with our respective commands, 

 were stationed south of Richmond, along the Petersburg lines. 

 General Grant's command consisted of the Army of the Poto- 

 mac, but my command consisted of one horse. And I am per- 

 suaded if General Grant's command had given him as much 

 trouble as my command gave me he would have resigned." 

 Something of that sort, I think, can always be said by the man 

 who appreciates agricultural difficulties, when he compares 

 that occupation with many others which are supposed to be 

 more complicated. And it is precisely by reason of these diffi- 

 culties and the training that they give that in speaking in be- 

 half of Yale University and welcoming you to the city I feel 

 as though I was speaking from one educational institution to 

 another; for if there is anything which is an educational insti- 

 tution, and which I may say represents a type of very high 

 education, if its advantages are properly utilized, it is farming 

 as carried on in Connecticut. 



Modern education consists of two parts : technical training 

 to furnish good producers, and ethical training to furnish 

 good citizens. In both of these fields I think that Yale Uni- 

 versity and the Connecticut Board of Agriculture can join 

 hands as fellow laborers. See how it works first in the tech- 

 nical field, in the education of the producers. We are develop- 

 ing in all of our higher institutions of learning as much tech- 

 nical education as we can. Progressive men today hold that 

 the world will be better off if each boy is trained as well as 

 he can be for the difficulties that he is going to have to face. 

 They are right. But the danger is that in trying to do good 

 technical training we shall specialize too much; the danger 

 that we shall teach a boy how to do one set of things, to use 

 one set of tools, to keep one set of books, to fill out one set of 

 forms; and every intelligent educator has to insist first, last 



