308 EXPERIMENT STATION EECOED. 



" First, to live ; not merely to exist. Almost anyone can exist in these 

 days, and especiall}^ in this country of ours. Mere existence is so 

 easy and so common that a failure to secure this becomes noteworthy' ; 

 the starvation of a single person in a population of nearly eighty 

 millions becomes at once such an item of news that it is wired from 

 one end of the country to the other and is commented upon by the 

 daily press under special headlines. But the normal man desires 

 something more than existence. He desires to live, in the sense that 

 he wishes his fair share of those things which give color and meaning 

 to his century. ... In a word, he must be able to live as a bread- 

 winner and husband and father and good citizen ought to live. This 

 is not only his OAvn right, but the rightful demand of the welfare of 

 the entire community. 



" Second, to be a man among men. He is not to be content while he 

 remains unrecognized and unknown. He is not simply a unit to be 

 counted, but a man to be weighed and reckoned with. He wishes to 

 stand shoulder to shoulder with his fellows, to look level in the eyes 

 of other men with a sense of equality and power, to feel that his ex- 

 perience and his observation and his resulting opinions are of value 

 to the Avorld and the value is recognized, that men hesitate as to cer- 

 tain undertakings until they know^ where he stands. He will not 

 admit that he is only a fraction of a man, but insists that he is at least 

 one of the full integers which make up the sum of life. He is not 

 to be a flint that never strikes fire. His nature desires and demands 

 the esteem and the regard and even the affection of his fellows. 



"Third, to do that wdiich will endure. He will have no part in 

 oblivion ; he is unwilling to be forgotten ; he can not abide the thought 

 that his w^ork is to perish, that all that to wdiich he has given his time 

 and strength and thought and power comes to an end simply because 

 his body dies. He washes to project his temper and his purpose and 

 his plans into the future, to find in this way and even here the be- 

 gimiings of immortalit}', so to labor that at least a part of his finite 

 product may be worthy to be w^oven in and in with the divine plan 

 and thus become lasting and infinite." 



This is a high and a noble ideal. It appeals to the best there is in 

 man. But Avho shall say that a scientific career in the field of agri- 

 culture does not open the way to the realization of these three con- 

 trolling desires in a high degree ? To one wdth the proper tempera- 

 ment such a career is a challenge to the supreme use of all his pow- 

 ers — to his imagination, his ingenuity, his patience and enthusiasm, 

 and to his spirit of disinterested service. 



