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growers yesterday, a man who is managing property worth more than 

 a million dollars. He is a man who has grown up on his own efforts 

 and has had hard knocks and who had never had much opportunity 

 when a young man, and Avhile I was at lunch with him yesterday he 

 said to me, the greatest drawback to him in his business was lack of 

 imagination through lack of training, and he said what disturbed him 

 most in connection with this great property he was managing was the 

 fact that it was going to require more expert knowledge than he had 

 been able to give to it in the past, so he told me he was going to send one 

 of his boys to Berkeley, where he would be enabled to get a larger, more 

 comprehensive grasp of the problems of management, and so can take 

 hold of his work, do more experimental work and understand things 

 better. Many people all through the State consider the College of 

 Agriculture of the State of California simply as an institution. It is 

 not an institution. It is yours, and its teachers and professors are 

 simply servants who are operating and working in your behalf and 

 welfare, and whether the College of Agriculture amounts to anything 

 in the future will depend not only upon the plans which Dr. Hunt and 

 his associates lay out, but it will depend whether you as taxpayers and 

 citizens desire to promote and establish a large, comprehensive insti- 

 tution for the development of research and education and the develop- 

 ment of our industries. It is for you, gentlemen, to say as taxpayers 

 whether it is policy, wise business policy, to develop an institution in 

 this State where our young men and women can be trained. I have 

 been very much pleased with this comprehensive paper of Dr. Hunt's. 

 I am .satisfied, now that you have heard the paper, that you will agree 

 that the introduction that I gave Dr. Hunt was not overstated. We 

 have with us also a gentleman who is interested in the establishment 

 of an institution, and I would like to hear just a word or two from 

 Dr. Aaronsohn, because he has problems among the Jewish people of 

 Palestine in this same line of work. 



Mr. Aaronsohn. Ladies and Gentlemen : My poor command of the 

 English language makes it hard for me to express all the emotions 

 which came over me when I listened to this address of Dr. Hunt's. 

 And I feel it has been my good fortune to be able to understand clearly 

 your enthusiasm and aims as has just been expressed. And I am glad 

 I have liad the opportunity to hear these problems of schools and 

 colleges expressed with such a broad view, which is so important to the 

 welfare — not only as Dr. Hunt says — to the welfare of your State; he 

 was too modest. The problem applies everyM^here, all over the world, 

 in my own country, too ; and in this gathering here of fruit growers 

 you do so very much good for your country, but you are not aware of 

 the fact that we have the same existing conditions in my country — Pal- 

 estine, which I believe is about one twentieth as large as California. 

 We always listen with great interest to your proceedings ; we are always 

 ver}' eager to get your publications, and I am quite sure that there are 

 very few citizens in California who read with such interest the pro- 

 ceedings of your fruit growers' conventions as we do in Palestine, 



