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FIAT LUX 



We approach now another type. You will find 

 the pictures in the main corridor as you enter the 

 Club. I am not quite sure that journalists, scien- 

 tists, teachers, authors or even cabinet officers have 

 any special claims to the conspicuous recognition 

 here accorded them. That the breed-makers and 

 their disciples are entitled to first and best consid- 

 eration in this general scheme goes without saying. 

 However, as the object of it all is educational, I 

 suppose that active promoters and forwarders of 

 the cause fall legitimately within the general scope 

 of SADDLE AND SIRLOIN purposes. The darkness that 

 once dwelt upon the face of the agricultural deep 

 is disappearing. That the light is breaking is due 

 in large measure to the type of men here repre- 

 sented. Each of those whose portrait here appears 

 has helped to bear aloft the torch of knowledge 

 somewhere along the highways or byways of our 

 progress. 



The first of our great collegians to stir the 

 country deeply upon the subject of animal feeding 

 along scientific lines was Dean HENRY, whose por- 

 trait, as already recorded, was the beginning of the 

 SADDLE AND SIRLOIN memorial galleries. It is indeed 



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