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started out to muiutaiu an expensive system, but if they maintain it efficiently, 

 if the system gives them the results which they hope to get, they will be obliged 

 to pay the cost, and they must do these things. 



It is not necessary that the entire realm of pure knowledge be covered in a 

 college of agriculture. It is not necessary that the ancient languages, that the 

 oriental languages, that biblical literatiu'e, that archaeology, and those subjects 

 be taken up. It is not necessary in the universities to take up all the fields 

 of ai)plied science, but chemistry, physics, botany. English, political economy, 

 political science, to some extent, and history must be factors of both institutions, 

 and the States that try to maintain the two colleges must pay for that dupli- 

 cation. There is no other way. They must pay for it in laboratories and 

 equipment, and to some extent in men. It is, however, not necessary for each 

 college to do all the work in the applications of science to life. Naturally 

 the university does not cover the field of agriculture. In no case, so far as 

 I know, does the agricultural college attempt to cover the fields of law and 

 medicine. There is the debatable ground of engineering in all its branches, 

 which is distributed between the two, and it should be distributed between 

 the two, as President Kerr has said, in the weaker States, but which in 

 the stronger States will be inevitably developed in both. 



I make these remarks because this problem is before some of the Western 

 States. It is still a live issue in some of them. It is my judgment, and most 

 deeply seated, that all States which are yet able to adopt the policy of concen- 

 tration should do It, because the expense is so great that it is impossible to do 

 the best iuid have duplication. In those States in which the policy of sub- 

 division has been adopted the best effort ought to be made by the two or three 

 institutions to harmoniously work together for the best interests of the State. 



With an expression of thanks to the officers of the section and to those who 

 contributed to the programme, the section adjourned sine die. 



