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new reorganization of the College of Agricnltnre that it has been able 

 to secure the services of a man who has already left his mark among 

 the most progressive leaders of the new agricultural science and educa- 

 tion of America. I take pleasure in introducing to you Dr. Thomas 

 F. Hunt, who will address you on the subject: The Motive of the 

 College of Agriculture of the University of California. 



THE MOTIVE OF THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE OF THE 

 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. 



By Thomas F. Hunt, Berkeley, Cal. 



The men and women connected with the College of Agriculture and 

 Experiment Station have for their aim the development of the 

 agricultural resources of California. The word agriculture is here 

 used in its broadest significance, namely, the economic production of 

 living things. The agency through which this body of men and women 

 is to accomplish its purpose is the University of California, but I wish 

 here and now publicly to announce that they are eager to co-operate 

 with all other agencies— federal, state or private — which may have for 

 their main purpose the maintenance in California of a successful family 

 life. 



The assertion of Dr. Carver is fully accepted, that if one admits that 

 life is worth living, he who allows the love of money, or power, or land, 

 or science, or literature to interfere with the rearing of a noble family 

 commits a criminal act. It is not necessary that every one should 

 assume the marriage relation, but when a couple has taken each other 

 for better or worse, it is a crime to permit any other motive or ambition 

 to prevent the rearing of a worthy family. A man's business should 

 be his means of making a successful home and not the means of getting 

 a front page illustration. Between the age of twenty-five and fifty 

 the wife may well assist in this enterprise. 



I was permitted recently to sit at the table of a capable woman. 

 She exclaimed, "I am a free woman. I am fifty. I no longer need 

 to conceal my age. ' ' According to the law of probabilities this woman 

 has twenty years to devote through education and politics to promoting 

 the social welfare. The women of her class have the power to become 

 through their mature judgment and culture the greatest and most 

 benign influence in every community. 



It is so plain that he who runs may read that not only can no 

 development of agriculture be considered wise which does not lead to 

 a successful family life, but that in California a proper development 

 of its agriculture is essential to this end. The acceptance of this 

 doctrine by the Anglo-Saxon race would solve many if not most of the 

 difficulties which beset the body politic. It is the home loving people 

 who inherit the earth. It is the immediate duty of the College of 

 Agriculture through research and education to make the agriculture of 

 California more prosperous. Through its various divisions, it is 



