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two ambitions to which reference has just been made are, of course, 

 after all only a minor. What of the educational work of the College 

 of Agriculture'? 



In developing our undergraduate departments, at least some of them 

 Avill be organized around the industries. Already we have the Depart- 

 ment of Dair>^ Industry, Animal Industry, Agronomy or field culture, 

 Citriculture, Viticulture, Pomology or deciduous tree fruits. Floriculture 

 and landscape gardening. The reasons for this are many and complex, 

 but one important reason is that we are not teaching subjects but 

 students. The student is going to become a lawyer, or a citrus grower, 

 or a doctor or a stock raiser, or a teacher or a dairyman. Harvard Avas 

 founded to train ministers and afterwards because ministers gave 

 so-called medical advice, it began to train physicians. Later, lawyers 

 were brought in out of the rain. 



The land grant colleges were founded to train young men and w^omen 

 in the several pursuits and professions of life, of which housekeeping 

 is one — in some localities. The difficulty with agricultural teachers has 

 been that they have been absorbed in the pursuit of knoAvledge and 

 obsessed with the importance of their discoveries. Greek must be made 

 a good training subject or it cannot justify its existence in the Univer- 

 sity curriculum. Agriculture can be made just as good a training 

 subject if we remember we are dealing with young men who have red 

 blood in their veins and who have an ambition to live a life of usefulness 

 find power. If we forget it, they had better study Greek. 



The successful teacher of agricultural subjects must not only be 

 concerned with his subject and with his students, but if he is also an 

 investigator, as every good teacher should be, he must concern himself 

 with the people in the industry which he teaches. There is no state in 

 the Union w^here it is so necessary for the agricultural professor to 

 know thoroughly his subject before he undertakes to deal with the men 

 who make their living from agriculture as here. In California they do 

 not hunt grizzlies with shotguns. 



The College of Agriculture is not merely a teaching institution. It 

 has three phases : research, education, and public service. When it 

 comes to organizing its research work, especially where large questions 

 and interests are involved, we shall organize around the problem rather 

 than around the industry. These strictly research departments will 

 jjot be charged with undergraduate teaching but will be permitted to 

 take post-graduate students. A real post-graduate student is one who 

 is working out some problem. Thus there has been organized a research 

 department with headquarters at Riverside. There has been called to 

 preside over this department, Dr. H. J. Webber, Professor of Plant 

 Breeding of Cornell University, who is one of the best known teachers 

 of post-graduate students in this country. 



In the location of its headquarters the College of Agriculture is some- 

 what unique among institutions of its kind. Its location has been 

 looked upon as an element of weakness. As the institution develops, I 



