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nature in her manifold workings; a boon denied to those 

 whose aspirations rise no higher than the mere drudgery 

 of labor, where all are the abject slaves of toil, and the 

 whole of life consists of one dull, ever-recurring routine of 

 eating, drinking, working, and sleeping. 



THE FUTURE OF INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. 



While it is altogether right for the people to demand 

 that the schools specially endowed for education to the in 

 dustries shall accomplish some good to the present gener 

 ation, and to the masses in that immediately succeeding 

 ours, and while they not only ask, but continue to insist 

 upon this, they will not deny as high educational facilities 

 to the Agricultural Colleges as exist anywhere else on the 

 broad earth. They do well not to compromise the claim 

 that this new education, which advanced educators and the 

 press have said would revolutionize the world, shall be car 

 ried out faithfully to its legitimate results. 



The future of industrial education must be that the 

 student shall be made as thorough as possible, in the rudi 

 ments that shall best assist him in after life to earn his 

 broad, by the application of certain knowledge pertaining 

 to the particular industry which he follows. The accom 

 plishment of this end must be one of the persistent objects 

 aimed at in the movement now in progress to disenthrall 

 the masses from the power of monopolies. 



Since the act of Congress granting lands for the endow 

 ment of Agricultural Colleges, we have seen the persistence 

 with which existing colleges have sought to absorb this fund, 

 that the power might remain with themselves. They have 

 told wild stories that science, if not tempered with the old 

 dogmas, would overturn society and bring the earth back 



