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plish relatively little unless it has the fellowship and the stimu- 

 lus of the union of colleges and graduate school which we call 

 the university. It will not bear large fruits unless it has to 

 respond to the demands of a real constituency with large in- 

 terests, nor until the purposes of representatives of that con- 

 stituency, who have the intelligence and the authority to accom- 

 plish particular things, have to be met. 



"All of the natural sciences, physics, chemistry, zoology, 

 physiology, bacteriology, embryology, thremmatology; the 

 social and political sciences, history, economics, the mechanical 

 arts, and divers phases of engineering; great practical experi- 

 ence, and a large amount of horse sense, are inseparably in- 

 volved in that high agricultural development which must be had 

 in the State of New York if her agriculture is to keep pace wnth 

 the other commercial and intellectual activities of the State. Of 

 course, all the people engaged in farming can not be equipped 

 with all of this knowledge, but a considerable part of them must 

 be, to the end that they may lead the way; and when such men 

 lead the way all the rest will be copying larger men and better 

 methods than they have sufficient opportunity to copy now. 

 And there must be a place which will not only initiate new 

 undertakings and lift old ones to higher planes, but to which 

 any occult difficulty may be taken for investigation and report. 

 And investigation and teaching, scientific research and the train- 

 ing of teachers and superintendents, must go together because 

 one is as vital as the other, and each inspires and energizes the 

 other. And with it all there must be, in the agricultural college 

 at least, the ever present feeling that agriculture is our inost 

 important business, and that the college which can quicken it 

 has a larger mission and is entitled to a fuller reward than any 

 other kind of a college which the ingenuity of man and the gen- 

 erosity of a people have ever been able to put upon its feet. 

 These specifications call for nothing short of a real university 

 under some considerable measure of popular control." 



" It will be a good State policy to give liberal support to the 

 State College of Agriculture and expect to make large demands 

 upon it. An agricultural college is bound to be a college as 

 miuch as any other kind of institution which claims the name 

 of college. Strong teachers and many ofiferings will have to 

 precede the coming of students. No state will be likely to sup- 

 port more than one that will make much of an impression upon 



