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maintaining the law is more important than any work that 

 they can do for themselves in making money or getting com- 

 fort. And we think that nothing will help those forces of 

 conservatism so strongly as the existence of a large and in- 

 fluential farming class, rich enough to be above the level of 

 penury, yet not to be independent of the hardest kind of work, 

 sympathizing in virtue of that work with the desires of the 

 city laborer and yet feeling, as the city laborer does not, the 

 necessity of continued conservatism if any effective work for 

 the country is to be accomplished. 



And so, gentlemen, Yale University welcomes the conven- 

 tion called by the Connecticut Board of Agriculture as being 

 engaged in the kindred work of laying the foundations for 

 effective production and of furnishing the material for good 

 citizenship and respect for law. We welcome you to our col- 

 lections, to our museums, to our laboratories. You have come 

 at a time when a good deal of the regular work of the institu- 

 tion is, to a large extent, suspended, because of the examina- 

 tions, which come before the boys go home, but the collections 

 of minerals, of fossils, and of pictures are still open. The 

 laboratories are still open. I believe that in the mining labora- 

 tory, a little way north of the general university buildings, to 

 the left of Prospect street as you go up, if you have leisure, 

 will be well worth your inspection. But as to these and any 

 other things, I want you to feel that you are cordially invited 

 as our guests to inspect. If a man comes here and simply 

 wants to know something of what is done in the way of edu- 

 cation, it is no less a privilege than a pleasure to us to show it 

 to him, and so, during the time of your stay here, speaking as 

 one educator to another, I bid you welcome. (Applause.) 



Secretary Brown. I appeal to you, ladies and gentlemen, 

 whether I was not right in not tying the president of Yale 

 University down to any particular subject. Anything I knew 

 that came from him would be worth your hearing and be 

 stimulating to the work in which we are engaged, I did not 



