xxvi Report of the President. 



pleted. It is a fact that they are packed, however, and that we 

 ought to accept no more students with the present faciHties. This 

 is only a demonstration that the people are ready. Not all the 

 farm youth, of course, will want a college education, but enough 

 will want it to warrant the doubling of the present plant of this 

 College of Agriculture at once."* 



Is it too much to hope that the Legislature and the State, which 

 are already so deeply committed to the support of this important 

 work, will hear the appeal of the great rural interests of the State 

 as they are expressed in the pressing needs of the College of 

 Agriculture? 



Respectfully submitted, 



JACOB GOULD SCHURMAN, 



President of Cornell University. 



* The College of Agriculture and the State, by L. H. Bailey. An address 

 delivered on the occasion of Farmers' Week at Cornell University, February 

 26, 1909. 



