INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN PRAIRIE STATE 



include as well a great many farmers, 

 breeders, fruiterers, horticulturists, seed- 

 raisers and other neighbors co-operating or 

 competing with the university in fostering 

 agricultural advance. 



3. Its activity in the realm of agriculture 

 is after all by no means, as its compass might 

 suggest to some, the whole of what the uni- 

 versity is doing. I am here picturing, on 

 the contrary, about half the business of one 

 among the seven colleges of which the insti- 

 tution is composed. 



4. Its wide and hearty work of industrial 

 education in no wise enfeebles the univer- 

 sity's agency in other spheres. The utilita- 

 rian and liberal motives are not the same, 

 but, far from being at war, they are mutually 

 helpful. President Jefferson saw this, and 

 there is no better proof of his wondrous 

 breadth and insight. He founded the Phi 

 Beta Kappa society, with the motto, "Phil- 

 osophy the pilot of life." He was also the 

 John the Baptist, or rather the Elijah, of 

 the present agricultural schooling dispensa- 



