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"Aside from this very potent influence in holding the 

 college to a high education standard, it is difficult to enume- 

 rate his special services to the institution, they were so many 

 and so varied. I think he more than any other man con- 

 tributed to an esprit de corps among the students and the 

 alumni. For many years he gave much time to keeping in 

 contact with the graduates, purely as a voluntary under- 

 taking, and he made many of them feel what they really 

 owed to the college. The vast amount of work which he put 

 upon the college library resulted in the building up of the 

 best selected and arranged agricultural library in this coun- 

 try, which I think is only surpassed at the present time by 

 the Library of the National Department of Agriculture 

 It is his most conspicuous monument. 



" In his plans for organization and development President 

 Goodell built symmetrically, aiming to develop the vari- 

 ous departments uniformly, rather than one or two de- 

 partments at the expense of all others. He was exceedingly 

 just and broad in his sympathies with all departments of 

 the institution, believing that each had its place and that 

 together they made a strong, symmetrical whole . His policy 

 seemed to be to give quite large liberty to the heads of 

 departments in order that they might have the inspiration 

 of the field, and to hold them accountable for the results. 

 He stamped upon all the necessity for a clear and definite 

 plan, and for thoroughness in all that was undertaken." 



After the establishment in 1886 of the Hatch Experiment 

 Stations in connection with the land-grant colleges, it 

 became at once apparent to the leaders of agricultural 

 education, that cooperative action was necessary to secure 

 the best results, not only in work but in legislation. It was 



