198 SECOND ANNUAL MEETING. 



the leading features of our State University, and for this purpose 

 we expect your cordial co-operation, and such appropriations as are 

 necessaiy. Nor do we think that any mechanical schools in San 

 Francisco, valuable as they may become, can supply the place of the 

 College of Mechanic Arts, as provided by the original plan of the 

 State University. We also request the present Legislature to order 

 that block letters be prepared and placed upon the east and west 

 faces of the main building of the University, marking it for all time 

 with the words, Agricultural College of the University of Cali 

 fornia.&quot; 



Document B. is omitted, as not properly belonging to the 

 annals of the State Grange. It was a reply made by Professor 

 Carrto these committees for a &quot;full statement of the history of 

 the Agricultural College, with a view to laying it before the 

 people and the next Legislature.&quot;* 



The following Report of the Committee on Education and 

 Labor, was enthusiastically adopted : 



&quot;When Congress, at the opening of its last session, appointed a 

 Committee on Education and Labor, it seemed a recognition by the 

 highest legislative body of the country, that these great interests are 

 indissolubly connected. So we believe, and a thorough and prac 

 tical education being the only means by which labor can be elevated, 

 your committee desire to present a few suggestions with regard to 

 improvements in our public schools, high schools, and university. 



Our schools, both higher and lower, have naturally grown up on 

 English models, and were then made to fit the needs of the aristo 

 cratic classes, rather than of working men and women. This is the 

 reason why so much of our elementary instruction imparts a knowl 

 edge of words rather than of things. 



Germany, France, and other European countries, are far ahead of 

 England and America in both the quality and quantity of education 

 furnished to the laboring classes, for they seek to impart skill, along 



*On the occasion of Professor Carr s removal from the Agricultural Professorship of the Uni 

 versity, (August, 1874,) Worthy Master Hamilton, who had been appointed a member of the Board 

 of Regents, made this protest: 



I protest against the summary removal of Professor Carr at this time: 



let Because such removal will be in direct violation of pledges made by friends of the Uni- 

 vereity to the House Committee on education of the last Legislature. 



2d I believe such an act is in opposition to the wishes of a large class of the friends of the 

 University, viz., the agriculturists and mechanics of California, and will go far to confirm the 

 belief that the vacating of the Chair of Professor of Agriculture at this time is more to gratify 

 personal feeling than to subserve the public interest. 



3d Because such removal will have the effect of strengthening opposition to the present man 

 agement, and give color to the charge now so openly preferred: That the President and Regents 

 are striving to build up a purely literary institution at Berkeley at the expense of the agricul 

 tural and mechanical interests, and are thus diverting the University from the original purpose 

 for ^hich it was formed, by either ignoring entirely or making those objects secondary which 

 the org nic act declared should be primary ones. 



4th Because the summary dismissal of any Professor of the University for alleged incompe- 

 tency, without first granting the accused the privilege of a hearing, and r.n opportunity to dofcnd 

 himself from the charges made against him, is demoralizing in its tendency, and is not in ac 

 cordance with the principles of right and equity which should ever prevail in the management 

 of the institution. 



A great number of the Subordinate Granges sustained the action of their Worthy Master, and 

 embodied their opposition to the present management of the University in the strongest terms. 



