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advantage can be taken of the experience, failures and suc- 

 cesses achieved during the last forty-five years by the older 

 colleges on the mainland. The key-note of the whole system 

 of ^he State Agricultural Colleges is that which is emphasized 

 in the fundamental law that the education must be a liberal 

 one. The ideal should not be to train the men and women to 

 fill some particular niche in life, but to produce, rather, broad 

 and well rounded men, capable of succeeding in any walk of 

 life. As a dual organization having a direct relationship with 

 both State and Nation, it must give its students training in 

 the humanistic as well as the most advanced technical ideals. 

 As a prominent educator has recently said, "there is too much 

 illiteracy among college graduates." Scientific teaching is 

 essential, but the foundation should be upon broader lines, 

 so that the product shall not be a half-educated specialist; — 

 teaching the students that "the only way to have the good 

 opinion of all the people all the time is to deserve it; and that 

 the only thing of permanent value in the universe is char- 

 acter." A liberal education must embrace an acquaintance 

 with some other languages than our own, in order that we 

 may know how other men think, reason, -imagine, or express 

 themselves in oratory and song. The study of literature, to 

 acquaint the student with its buried wealth of thought and 

 life, that he may know miankind at its best ; history, for its 

 lessons in humanity, its teachings of law and liberty, motive, 

 passion and action, and the progress and development of hu- 

 man life ; political science and economics, that the men who 

 go forth shall become the makers of opinion and a source of 

 action in a free state ; psychology and ethics, the sciences of 

 mind, thought, and conduct ; military science, because the 

 progress of civilization is intimately dependent upon it; reli- 

 gion, because the thinkers and leaders of our civilization must 

 have that reverence for the divine side of human nature which 

 is the guardian and inspiration of all the rest. These are the 

 broad humanistic studies in the university man's preparation 

 for a full and liberal life. 



ACTS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF LAND GRANT 



COLLEGES. 



By Hon. Henry E. Cooper, Regent of the College of Agriculture. 



The Agricultural Colleges of today look to the Morill Act 

 of July 2nd, 1862, as the law that has provided for their organ- 

 ization and maintenance. On the 14th day of December, 

 1857, Hon. Justin S. iMorill of Vermont, Chairman of the 

 Committee on Agriculture, introduced in the House of Repre- 

 sentatives a bill appropriating to the several States a portion 

 of the public lands for the purpose of encouraging institutions 

 for the advancement of agriculture and mechanic arts. Strange 



