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vacation an opportunity to secure employment in his chosen field, thus 

 furnishing money with which to continue liis education and valuable 

 practical experience. 



Applying this principle to our own problem, we may send sophomores 

 who would specialize in dairying or animal husbandry to Davis; those 

 who would specialize in agronomy, either to Davis or Fresno ; and those 

 who wish to engage in horticultural pursuits or landscape gardening, to 

 Fresno or Riverside. When we have a department of forestry, students 

 can go to the forestry station at Chico or at Santa Monica. Students 

 interested in strictly subtropical fruits can be taught at the Imperial 

 Station some of the conditions of management in these rapidly develop- 

 ing and truly fascinating crops. Students who specialize in soils could 

 be taken into the soil survey work and given actual training in soil 

 mapping. If the option is agricultural chemistry, plant pathology or 

 entomology, the student will find the laboratories at Berkeley open 

 to him, while students of agricultural education will find their train- 

 ing ground in connection with the regular summer school work of the 

 University. 



As we are now organized, students may go to Davis the last half 

 of their senior year, where they can receive instruction in certain sub- 

 jects which are developed better there than at Berkeley. This is nota- 

 bly true of instruction in animal husbandry and dairy industry. 



While the University Farm at Davis is an exceedingly important 

 factor in the development of the research work and is becoming a 

 much more important factor than was anticipated in the training of 

 University students, its most unique feature is the instruction given 

 to University Farm School students. In this school an attempt is being 

 made to solve the most important educational question in this country. 

 We have in America a perfectly well understood system of education : 



Primary grade 7 to 10 



Grammar grade 11 to 14 



High school grade 15 to 18 



University grade 19 to 22 



Post-graduate work 23 to 25 



This is a thoroughly desirable system of education and one that 

 should be extended to apply as nearly as possible to every young man 

 and w^oman. There are, however, large numbers of young men who 

 have reached the age of 19 who do not have the requirements for admis- 

 sion to college. They will not go to the high school because they are 

 beyond high school age. They could not get the proper instruction if 

 they did go, because the method of instruction must be different for 

 students at 19 and those of 15 years. Age must be recognized as a 

 factor in education. A young man or woman at 19 differs from the 

 boy or girl of 15, physically, mentally, morally and spiritually. One 

 hundred and twenty students entered the University Farm school at 

 Davis this semester and 118 entered freshmen in the College of Agri- 

 culture at Berkeley. The average age of the entrants at Davis was 19 



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