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of projecting his personality into the minds and hearts of thousands 

 of young men and women and older people who have come into direct 

 contact with him and are proud to do him honor as a modest citizen 

 who has led an inspiring, wholesome life and who has efficiently dis- 

 charged day by day the duties of his office which he has skilfully ad- 

 ministered and so highly magnified. He has established an honorable, 

 rightly earned, and widely recognized name. His ability as an or- 

 ganizer has probably given him a good share of his reputation, and it 

 is no doubt true that some of the larger results of his intelligently 

 directed efforts have been indirectly achieved through the organization 

 and direction of others, while he has been but little in evidence per- 

 sonally, preferring to allow other people to have the credit for what 

 he had really originated. 



Gathered here today we see, tho incomplete, an outline of what 

 the founders and leaders of such an institution as the College of Ag- 

 riculture endeavored to establish. Let us in prophetic vision con- 

 template it as it will appear when generations have perfected it in all 

 its magnificence, its glories, its good to man and to all men of all 

 classes, in its power to evolve and diffuse practical knowledge and 

 skill, culture and appreciation and better love of industry and sound 

 morality, as voiced not only through its research, its instruction, and 

 its extension service, but through its thousands of graduates in every 

 pursuit of life. Then let us seriously ask, is not such an object 

 worthy of at least the best efforts we have and worthy of a state which 

 God himself in the very act of creation designed to be among the lead- 

 ing agricultural and industrial commonwealths on the face of the 

 Globe? 



