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principles of our Association that they 

 may extend their activities, and ours, too, 

 stili further, and so reach all classes of 

 people? Take this thought, Mr. Golfer, 

 and knock it around for a while, and 

 travel with it up hill and down as you 

 travel there with your golf ball. We beg 

 for money to extend our work, so that 

 the poorest child, the most uncultured 

 man, the most ignorant human being, 

 may have the benefit of it as well as our 

 members in private schools and in tech- 

 nical universities. ArcAdiA is happy to 

 have you next door. As an institution 

 you do well, but as an Institution we are 

 doing better. Please do not keep all your 

 joy to yourselves. We do not keep all 

 of ours to ourselves. Some millionaire 

 golfer who desires to leave a monument 

 to himself and for the benefit of humanity 

 may set a good example to others by 

 taking the lead and establishing a golf 

 club that shall be as open to membership 

 as is a Young Men's Christian Associa- 

 tion or a public library, and as general 

 in scattering benefits as are hospitals and 

 settlement houses. 



I have heard that some members of the 

 golf club think The Agassiz Association 

 is a little too persistent in its efforts to 

 secure money, and in expecting everybody 

 to be interested in its work. The criticism 

 may be just. Good Mr. Golfer, here and 

 elsewhere extend your own fields in your 

 own wav, but burn this fact into your 



memory, learn this one truth — we extend 

 our interests, we shall continue to labor by 

 day and by night to extend our interests 

 so as to bring the joys of nature to every- 

 body, old or young, rich or poor, black 

 or white. We are not exclusive. We 

 cannot be. We would not be if we could. 

 You are so because the nature of your 

 favorite pursuit compels. You have no 

 choice. It is that or nothing. All those 

 that I have mentioned would enjoy golf, 

 but they cannot. This is not their fault 

 neither is it yours. We have carried 

 Nature to the slums of New York, and 

 you could carry your interests to thous- 

 ands, along precisely the same lines, by 

 purchasing grounds somewhere in the 

 country to which the boys of New York 

 City might go to play their childish golf, 

 as your caddies play theirs in your ab- 

 sence, and on your grounds. There are 

 boys and girls, men and women innumer- 

 able who would like golfing as well as 

 you like it, and I am sure that you would 

 enjoy your golfing better if you will pro- 

 vide free golf grounds for those that can- 

 not afford to pay for them. A golfer is 

 a royal good fellow, and his female com- 

 panion too is a royal good fellow. She 

 is as full of zeal as the other good fellow. 

 She follows the ball with as much zest, 

 and she appears to be as fond of the exer- 

 cise, the out-of-doors movements and the 

 application of her skill as is the more ro- 

 bust player of the other sex. 



DO THESE GOLFERS REALIZE HOW MrCII OF CHARM AND GRACE THEY AUU TO THE 



LANDSCAPE? 



