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the various scientists in the experiment stations, and with a 

 knowledge of the principles and practice of agriculture and a 

 trained mind for grasping new problems, these students 

 should go out into the fields of Hawaii and demonstrate by 

 actual production and sale of crops, not once or twice but all 

 the time as a means of livelihood, that agriculture is to be an 

 economic factor in the Territory's development. 



If the college is going to raise up leaders, it has got to have 

 the material out of which to fashion them and the tools and 

 equipment by which the moulding process may be done. The 

 college can not open its doors to every boy on the street whi 

 can neither understand what he is told nor comprehend what 

 he reads in the simplest text book. The students must have 

 training:; they must be able to understand and comprehend 

 The instruction ; they must be able to apply the principles that 

 they learn to practical problems. It needs no provisions in 

 the Federal statutes, vv^hich say that you must have a college 

 Avith such and such courses or you can not have Uncle Sam's 

 money, to prove that the best interests of the people of the 

 Territory demand that high entrance requirements be imposed 

 and such a course of stud}^ planned as will guarantee that 

 students of ability be in the courses — students who will make 

 thoughtful, studious, progressive men. Some one has said 

 that an agricultural college is not to teach boys to hoe, but 

 when and in what soil to hoe. 



In discussing educational standards here toni"?ht, happily 

 it is not my duty to outline entrance requirements or to plan 

 the college course. That pleasant task falls on the Regents. 

 That there is great divergence in what shall constitute a proper 

 course is shown by these statistics which I read sonif" little 

 time ago, showing per cent, of courses given in two colleges 

 in the three main groups of studies : 



In spite of this great diversity of courses, each is a promi- 

 nent college in States not dissimilar in interests and develop- 

 ment. All the other colleges ranged between these two ex- 

 tremes. 



At about the same time the Association of American Agri- 

 cultural Colleges and Experiment Stations adopted the follow- 

 ing list as a minimum requirement in general studies: 



Mathematics : Algebra, geometry and trigonometry ; three 

 years. 



Physic? and Chemistry: two years. 



English Literature and Lano-uac!'e : two vears. 



