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in agriculture in order that we may have an adequate fund of knowl- 

 edge for the use of the college teachers, extension workers, and 

 farmers ? 



" Evidently the compensations of the trained farmers and extension 

 men in the way of incomes and popular favor are going to be rela- 

 tively large. Will these occupations, therefore, take our brightest 

 and most capable students and leave the professorships and research 

 positions to be filled by second-rate men? This will depend very 

 largely on the spirit of the men best qualified to be professors and in- 

 A^estigators and on the attitude of the universities, colleges, stations, 

 and Department of Agriculture toward such men. . . . 



" If we are to have great scholars in agriculture, as we have had 

 them in philosophy or astronomy, we must have men who, having 

 weighed carefully the advantages of commercial success and popular 

 favor, nevertheless decide that they can find their greatest satisfac- 

 tion only in the attainment of the most profound scholarship through 

 study and research in agricultural lines. Thus they will be unmoved 

 by jflattering offers to go out into the broad world of affairs and 

 steadily pursue the scholar's business in laboratory, library, and class- 

 room whatever happens outside the college campus. 



"And we must have college boards and presidents and deans who 

 will have a great appreciation of the value of the great scholar in 

 agriculture and will show this in a substantial way by creating for 

 him a sympathetic environment, and favorable conditions for his 

 work. Even his salary should show some indication of appreciation 

 of his merit. There should be financial rewards for great scholars in 

 the universities and colleges, as well as for able administrators. 

 Above all the atmosphere of the agricultural college should be favor- 

 able to learning and research. ... It should be broadly sympathetic 

 with the men and women on the farms and their immediate prob- 

 lems, but it should also be highly stimulative and encouraging to 

 the scholar who desires to get beneath the surface of things, to know 

 and discover causes that he may be the better able to remedy ills, or 

 devise improvements in practice. 



"To encourage high standards and attainments in agricultural 

 scholarship is the main purpose of this Graduate School of Agricul- 

 ture. It does not attempt to take the place of regular graduate 

 courses in agriculture, which happily are now being maintained at 

 a number of our strongest agricultural colleges. Its aim is rather to 

 promote the wider establishment and greater efficiency of such 

 courses. 



" By bringing graduate students together from different points of 

 the United States and some foreign countries and giving them per- 

 sonal contact for a month with eminent experts in agi'icultural and 

 related sciences, this School hopes to awaken in many of its students 



