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work; harness making and repairing; rope splicing; manufacture 

 of butter, cheese, and ice cream; and handling of market milk 

 are some of the various lines of practical work engaged in by the 

 seniors in their elective courses. 



One of the interesting and satisfying things about the work 

 has been the fact of the great development that has taken place 

 in most of the young men. The average preparation of the men 

 students is about two and one-half years of high school. Most of 

 them have left high school because there seemed to be nothing 

 practical in it for them, or because of more or less economic neces- 

 sity. The work at this institution, while appealing to them enough 

 to bring them here, has seemed to them, when first here to require 

 a great deal of time, and the tendency on the part of many is to 

 look at the time and effort as a great sacrifice. Some men drop 

 out and a few never rise very far above the ambition they possessed 

 at matriculation, but the majority of the students show their reali- 

 zation and appreciation of the value of the work by desiring to 

 have the course extended a year or two. Among these men are 

 many who should go and want to go to college. In other words, 

 the School is bringing men to a realization of the opportunity edu- 

 cation offers and is pointing to some the duty of college work. 



As previously stated, the average preparation is about two years 

 in high school. With the present status of the course of study, it 

 is not possible for persons desiring to go to college to use their 

 work in the institution for entrance credits. The two years, from 

 the standpoint of college work, are wasted, and the institution 

 has been a blind end rather than a stepping stone to students. 

 With this situation in mind, and with the provision in the law 

 establishing the School to the effect that the course shall coordi- 

 nate as far as possible with those of the State: College of Agricul- 

 ture at Cornell University, authority was given to the Director by 

 your Board to confer with the authorities at Cornell and to arrange 

 the courses of study so that in the accomplishment of their primary 

 purpose of training men and women for life in the country, they 

 may also count for entrance credits to college. 



A conference was held with the authorities at Cornell and it 

 was decided that for those who had two years of high school work, 

 the work of this institution would give enough additional credits 

 to secure entrance to the College of Agriculture, providing chemis- 



