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many spheres of plant life. Mr. Burbank is a pioneer. By 

 his careful study of plants and the laws which govern the 

 plant breeder and by his never-failing- patience, he has accom- 

 plished results which seem astounding, but the future will 

 present far more astonishing achievements. Where can the 

 young man who wishes to enter this or other fields of tropical 

 agriculture find a college training adapted to his needs? The 

 CoJlege of Agriculture of Hawaii should be prepared to fully 

 equip him for his w^ork. While we cannot overlook the work 

 of preparing young men for agriculture as a business, the 

 College of Agriculture will, in my opinion, fall short of its 

 high opportunity if it fails to give a strong and liberal educa- 

 tion to its advanced students, so that they will be prepared to 

 occupy positions of importance and large usefulness in this 

 or other lands. This teaching of the science of agriculture 

 need not in any way interfere with the instruction in the art 

 of agriculture. 



There may be those who cannot see where our student body 

 is to be derived from for this high class of work. The college 

 will create a demand for agricultural education and for edu- 

 cated agriculturists. As the students of Oahu College, the 

 High School, Kamehameha, and the other preparatory schools 

 of the Islands become aware of the opportunities for students 

 in agriculture, and of the fact that to acquire an agricultural 

 education at the college, requires little in money but much in 

 perseveran<:e and work there will be many of the ablest among 

 them who will seek its open doors. There are young men 

 today in our agricultural colleges of the mainland who are 

 looking towards the tropics as the field for their future work. 

 They are endeavoring to study tropical agriculture with frozen 

 soil and snow-covered fields. To get such 3^oung men in the 

 College of Hawaii would result in bringing to this country 

 many an enterprising 3/oung man, who would remain and 

 who by his financial and mental resources, would do much 

 for the development of the Territory. ATany another who 

 here gained his knowledge of tropical agriculture would in 

 distant lands do valuable promotion work for the agriculture 

 of Hawaii, and would doubtless send us many a settler. Since 

 it is confidently expected, a very large part of the financial 

 support of the college will be from the United States treasury, 

 it is only fitting that the institution should have something of 

 a national character. 



It w^ill be felt by some that this is too high and too large a 

 work for a college of resources so limited as those of the Col- 

 lege of Agriculture of Hawaii. I believe, however, that small 

 means need not prevent this work being carried out. There 

 is in Hawaii today a body of specialists in many branches of 

 tropical agriculture and who are, I believe, sufficiently inter- 

 ested in the development of Hawaii and its agricultural re- 



