10 TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY REporT. 
three cheers for the Governor, which were given with a zest that 
manifested a genuine enthusiasm. After addressing the president 
of the day the Governor spoke as follows: 
ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR CHARLES EVANS HUGHES: 
“LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.— It is very agreeable to visit Geneva 
upon this congenial errand. As I have been driven through the 
streets of your city and along your beautiful lake, where so much 
is presented to charm the eye and so many manifestations are found 
of thrift and intelligence, of prosperity and contentment,] have not 
only been interested in the exhibition of a model city but I have 
been surprised at the extraordinary self-restraint which was shown 
in the control of the pride which those who were displaying the 
advantages of Geneva must have felt. You may well be proud, 
Genevans, proud of a location almost matchless, proud of a city of 
beautiful homes, proud of a situation in a country so beautiful, 
proud of your prosperity, and to-day we assemble to express as 
citizens, not of Geneva, but of the Empire State, our pride in a 
great institution doing efficient work and having a noble aim. 
RESULTS OF SPLENDID EFFORT. 
“T like no part of my work better than the visiting of the insti- 
tutions of the State. To me they represent, not acres, not buildings, 
not equipment, but human efforts for the benefit of mankind. We 
think too much of institutions in an impersonal way. We think 
too much of the physical manifestations of the activities, we pay 
too little attention to the hard, steady work which makes them 
successful, and whatever’ need there may be throughout this State 
of here and there correcting an error of administration, of here and 
there perfecting an adjustment or obtaining a more efficient service, 
and doubtless there is need of it, no one can see the activities of 
the government of this great State in its varied institutions without 
thanking God for the splendid efforts of our citizenship for the 
benefit of all the people. (Applause.) 
HONORS UNHERALDED. 
“To-day I think not so much of the Geneva Experiment Station 
as a sort of entity, which has achieved its twenty-fifth birthday. I 
rather think of the line of patient, quiet it may be, but effective 
investigators who have been living their lives here, doing their work 
