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are untaught and unfitted to assist in, or direct the labors of the farm. 

 The moral effect of this common but sad result is equally disastrous 

 and pitiable both in father and son. It is a state of things which 

 must be cured : if not, it will act like a corrosive ulcer. We must 

 combine the cultivated intellect and social amenities of mental refine- 

 ment, with the strong practical usefulness and sound virtues of the 

 agriculturist, who giving the sweat of his brow receives from Pro- 

 vidence such bounties as are now stored around us in this building,* 

 and spread upon these tables for the daily support of all human life, 

 and who dispenses them to all other classes. 



If these be not thus wedded, this great agricultural state of Penn- 

 sylvania must remain, as now, with the balance of influence and power 

 in the hands of comparatively few ; for I may be allowed to repeat, 

 with no other desire than to contribute to the future prosperity of our 

 glorious Commonwealth, that the great body of our citizens, the great 

 agricultural body, have not the power and the influence which they 

 ought to have for the proper balance of power in our political and 

 social relations. Something must be done to increase their power 

 how shall we do it ? Education will impart influence, but it must 

 be such education as will lead to the desired end ; it is self-evident 

 that it is no education unless it is a fit one. Science, art, and labor 

 must be combined. Here is our want. At present we have no suit- 

 able college in existence. Whatever may have been done in Europe 

 under the greater pressure of necessity we have no such institutions 

 as yet, to which we can have access. 



Now the institution we are striving to establish, at the earliest 

 possible period, is intended to supply this great social, political, 

 moral, and economical want. And while it improves the mind of 

 the agriculturist, and trains his hands, it will do both at less expense 

 than a purely literary training can be obtained for. Thus, while 

 reducing costs very greatly, it will educate better and fit for every 

 business relation of practical life. 



We estimate that $100 per annum will fully cover all expenses 

 for board and tuition, as we are instituting upon the farm different 

 branches of culture adapted for exercise, and to illustrate fully the 

 entire theory and practice of cultivation, and at the same time such 

 as will afford pleasant and profitable, moderate, regular, and varied 

 labor to the students. Provision will be made for ample and ex- 

 tensive mathematical training and engineering practice. All the 

 branches of Natural science will be fully illustrated and taught. 

 Moral and Social science, and all the arts of practical life, excluding 

 nothing but what is exclusively literary as the acquisition of the dead 

 ind foreign languages. We have started there must now be for 

 us no such word as fail. Our Legislature has done much to aid us ; 



* At the dinner table in the barn. 



