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per cent of its students to take up gladly the 

 life of the farm. For a young man who has 

 had four years of training in such a school, 

 who has been shown that in practical and 

 scientific agriculture lies opportunity for prog- 

 ress, such as almost no other line of life 

 affords, and who has found out, at the same 

 time, that he can make money upon the farm, 

 for such a young man there is scant tempta- 

 tion to rush to the city, there to be swallowed 

 up among the millions, to become a dependent, 

 to face the cold facts of small salary and large 

 expense. He goes out from the agricultural 

 school independent, a king among men; he is 

 untempted by the allurements of the street- 

 car, or a meagerly paid clerkship, or a narrow, 

 specialized department of some grimy trade. 

 The city calls to honorable service, to be sure, 

 but it is trammeled; the country call is for a 

 life of freedom and abounding health. 



In such an agricultural college the practical 

 is always uppermost. Follow a young man 

 through a day's work, or a composite day, we 

 will say, made up from different days in a term, 

 see how wide is the reach of the knowledge : 

 He knows how to make every implement in 



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