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manhood and citizenship an education obtainable in no 

 other way. 



The College has had many earnest friends, but it has also 

 encountered much opposition. The importance of a tech- 

 nical education has until recently been hardly appreciated 

 by the farmers of the state. The rapidity with which the 

 native population has emigrated to the western states, 

 leaving their farms in the hands of an alien population, 

 has been a factor of great importance in this connection. 

 In 1870 a determined attempt was made to stop all further 

 grants of money from the state; and several years later it 

 was proposed to make the Agricultural College a depart- 

 ment of Amherst College. The only result of these attempts, 

 however, has been to establish it on a firmer basis than 

 ever, and give to it renewed life and vigor. 



