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When I met the President of the University on 

 his return this matter of my being an ex-officio 

 trustee came up again. What had hurt me most 

 was that the trustees had not given me credit for 

 having sense enough to know that it was not suit- 

 able for a professor in one college to take part in 

 framing rules for the government of other col- 

 leges or to be present when other professors and 

 teachers and their departments were being dis- 

 cussed. I said to him that the position of Trustee 

 of Cornell University was the highest one I ever 

 expected to reach; and that I was proud of it be- 

 cause I had won it fairly and not by any political 

 pull. It was to me an indication that my work in 

 the promotion of agricultural education and farm 

 practice was appreciated by the people of the State 

 at large ; and neither he nor the Board need have 

 been afraid that I would intrude. 



TRAVELS AND AGRICULTURAL 

 OBSERVATIONS 



There was a lapse of sixty years between my 

 first journey to New York City when I was a lad 

 and my last one a few weeks before I came to 

 California. But in that long time, though I have 

 not been round the world, nor to Europe more 



