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every department are an absolute necessity. Fuller details re- 

 garding the crowded conditions of the various' departments will 

 be found in the reports of the departments themselves, to which 

 I beg you also to refer. 



At a later date a complete report of the needs of the College 

 will undoubtedly be presented to the people and legislature of 

 the State by the Trustees of the University. Meantime the 

 President is glad to quote the testimony of the State Commis- 

 sioner of Education, the Honorable A. S. Draper, not only 

 regarding the work of the State College at Cornell, but also the 

 costliness of all higher agricultural education and the wisdom 

 of making large and generous appropriations to maintain it. 

 The following extracts are from Commissioner Draper's address 

 on "Agriculture aird Its Educational Needs," delivered at Syra- 

 cuse on December 29, 1908: 



" The State has recently built new agricultural college build- 

 ings, and provided for developing a real agricultural college, at 

 Cornell University. 



" In all phases of higher education what is good is not cheap, 

 and what is cheap is not good. It is no less true — doubtless it 

 is more true — in the higher study of agriculture than in any 

 other phase of advanced education. And the higher learning 

 is quite as vital to agriculture as to any other interest of the 

 people. Then, a real agricultural college, associated with a true 

 university, is the true polic}^ in this State, and such a college 

 may be expected to vitalize whatever is done in connection with 

 agriculture in the high schools ; and whatever has a bearing 

 upon agriculture in the elementar}^ schools : and it may also be 

 expected to incite and uplift profitable agricultural operations 

 among the people. Then, whether or not an erroneous initiative 

 has been given to provision for agricultural instruction of elec- 

 mentary and secondary grades in this State, we have made no 

 mistake concerning agricultural teaching of the college grade. 



" The erection of buildings for a college of agriculture at 

 Cornell University is not enough to insure much result to New 

 York agriculture. The gathering of a faculty, the la^nng down 

 of offerings, and the installation of an equipment, are not 

 enough. That college will not only have to be as educationally 

 respectable as any other college in the university, but it will 

 have to stand in vital and living relations with every other. 

 No matter how elaborately equipped it may be, it will accgni- 



