188 SECOND ANNUAL MEETING. 



been at once the bane of our American institutions and the vampire 

 which is slowly but surely withdrawing for itself the life-blood of 

 our people. 



The subsequent history of this movement, culminating in the sum 

 mary, and, we believe, unjust removal of Professor Carr from the 

 chair of Agriculture, is too well known to all of you to require repe 

 tition now. You are aware that the only answer of the Eegents to 

 the joint inquiry of the Committee of the State Grange and the 

 Mechanics Deliberative Assembly, as to the reason for Professor 

 Carr s removal is, &quot;unfitness and incompetency.&quot; They do not 

 deign to tell us what they mean by &quot; unfitness and incompetency.&quot; 

 They do not condescend to give a single fact to prove this charge. 



Hence, we can but believe the removal of our brother was unjust, 

 and would here place on record our solemn protest against that act 

 of the Board of Eegents and the manner in which it was consum 

 mated. 



Our investigations for the past year lead us to believe that the 

 management of the financial affairs of the University, and especially 

 of its agricultural and mechanical interests, has not been for the best 

 interests of this noble institution, in whose complete and successful 

 development the people of California, including, most certainly, its 

 industrial classes, have a deep interest by our inalienable rights as 

 American citizens in a representative government. In proof of this, 

 we beg leave to call your attention to the following facts and figures : 



We find that Congress &quot;for the benefit of Agriculture and the 

 Mechanic Arts,&quot; as indicated in the title of the Act of July 2, 18G2, 

 gave to the State of California one hundred and fifty thousand acres 

 of land for the maintainance &quot; of at least one college whose leading 

 object should be, without excluding other scientific and classical 

 studies, and including military tactics, to promote the liberal and 

 practical eduation of the industrial classes in their several pursuits 

 and professions in life.&quot; 



That the administration of this grant, both in respect to the man 

 agement of the fund and the educational provisions adopted, was 

 confided to twenty-two Eegents of the University of California 

 organized in March, 1868. The organic act of said University re 

 quired that a College of Agriculture should first be established, that 

 priority of development and of privileges should be accorded to it, 

 and next to a College of Mechanic Arts, around these other colleges 

 were required to be successively organized. We find that neither in 

 the choice of Eegents for said University, nearly all of whom are 

 lawyers and capitalists of San Francisco, nor in the distribution of 

 its instructional force or other educational facilities, have these plain 

 requirements of the law been complied with. 



Your Committee are satisfied that the facts presented in the me 

 morial to the Legislature with respect to instruction in Agriculture 

 and the Mechanic Arts, were well and correctly stated, the theoret 

 ical instruction in science related thereto being such only as is com 

 mon in all colleges not industrial in their leading objects, with a 

 solitary exception of a single professorship, viz. : that of Agriculture, 

 since made vacant by the summary and as yet unexplained removal 

 of Professor Carr. No practical instruction, either in Agriculture or 



