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that we individually contribute to the amount that we feel we can 

 give in a voluntary contribution to him. 



Motion seconded by ]\Ir. Wright and unanimously carried. 



A collection as taken up which resulted in a sum close to $100 

 being taken up for the benefit of Mr. Lumbard, and Mr. S. B. Shil- 

 ling was appointed to present the purse to Mr. Lumbard. 



The Chairman : We are fortunate this evening in having with 

 us President Storms, of the Ames Agricultural College, who will 

 now address you for a few minutes. 



REMARKS. 



PRESIDENT STORMS. AMES, IOWA. 



Mr. Chairman, Gentlemen of the Association: — I have not the faintest 

 idea why my friend Mr. Wentworth should have laid his hand on me 

 when I entered the room a few minutes ago and threatened to bring me 

 here before you. I am sure it could not have been a malicious purpose 

 as I call him friend and still believe he is a friend. I did feel a little 

 bit strange in this company until just this moment, but the taking up 

 of a collection makes me feel quite at home. For several years I have 

 faced audiences from this room and from this platform, but never a 

 better looking audience than this, never one more intelligent, never ap- 

 parently one more righteous, never one more in earnest. Naturally I 

 ought to feel at home and then I have somehow a very deep interest in 

 this association and the interest there which you will understand because 

 I was born on a dairy farm and I have been connected with one at long 

 range ever since. 



You are dealing, gentlemen, with one of the fundamental and grow- 

 ing and important industries upon which our civilization and prosperity 

 depends. I have had the fortune, good or ill, of falling in more or less 

 with men who are interested in the financial situation and I am always 

 glad to realize that' our prosperity and our success does not depend upon 

 the fluctuating markets of Wall street, but it does depend upon the farm 

 and upon the interests largely which you represent who are gathered in 

 this association tonight. Possibly in just four minutes, for I understand 

 that is my limit, I may be allowed to suggest to you that we have a 

 double interest in your association and in you personally. We are 

 connected at Ames with college and with station interests, and if there is 

 any man who ought to be widely concerned in the affairs of the world 

 it is the man connected with educational work. They used to say to 

 me that a lawyer needed to know two things, viz., the law and every- 

 thing else, and an educator, especially if he be interested in the newer 

 developments of educational work, needs to be in touch with two worlds, 

 the world of intellectual interest and the world of industrial interest. We 

 never could live, we would be in a vacuum at an institution like the one 

 at Ames, were it not for vital and constant and ever increasing of im- 



