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the State, wish the enterprise conducted upon other and antagonis 

 tic principles, &quot;our resignations are most heartily at their service, 

 because, whatever else may need to be tried, there is no use in 

 repeating the experiment of flying a literary kite with an agricult 

 ural tail, so of ten made in various quarters; which, though a pleasant 

 regential and professional amusement, and quite attractive to an im 

 mediate locality, has not a cent of money in it for the industrial 

 student whose estate pays for the kite.&quot; 



&quot;Whether the professional and regential amusement above re 

 ferred to, of flying a literary kite with an agricultural tail, has 

 been pursued in carrying out the provisions of the agricultural 

 grant in California, we leave the reader to judge from the testi 

 mony of the memorial of the joint committee of Grangers and 

 Mechanics (see pages 186-193); from the report of the joint 

 legislative committee, and the almost unanimous expression of 

 the friends of industrial education. 



It is not a pleasant duty to point out the causes of failure, 

 but as Mr. Gladstone said, all questions of reform are summed 

 up in the one word, repeal; so in this case, it is necessary to 

 show wha t legislation is needed to make this noble trust pro 

 ductive and available to the classes for whose benefit it was 

 designed, 



The share of California in the national gift was 150,000 

 acres of land. On her admission into the Union, California re 

 ceived seventy-two sections of land, which was her portion of 

 the fund for higher seminaries of learning, and had appropri 

 ated them to the endowment and support of a University. 



By Act of the Legislature, March 31, 1866, an Agricultural, 

 Mining and Mechanical Art College, with a Board of Directors, 

 was established. It never went into operation. The Act was 

 repealed by the Act organizing the University, which became a 

 law March 23, 1868. 



The question of location was an important one. The com 

 mittee to whom this was referred finally decided against Napa, 

 San Jose&quot;, and other desirable points, in favor of Alameda 

 county, in the neighborhood of Oakland. The final choice of a 

 site was afterward determined by the action of the College of 

 California. 



The question arose here, as it had elsewhere : &quot; Shall we have 

 an independent agricultural and mechanical college, or make 

 such colleges, with that of mining, parts of a comprehensive 

 plan? &quot; There appears to have been no one in California at that 



