THE CALL OF THE LAND 



tion, urging the erection of an agricultural 

 professorship in every college. 



The third president of this Republic 

 rarely, if ever, saw a Phi Beta Kappa 

 farmer, but now such farmers are numerous. 

 Industrial study frequently turns liberal as 

 soon as it gets under way. Well have I seen 

 students come to college bent wholly on 

 preparing to earn and gain, change temper 

 completely, and become heartiest devotees 

 of culture or of pure science, distancing 

 classmates who began with expressly "lib- 

 eral" intent. Such recruits, a whole army, 

 take the country through, would be lost to 

 the arts and sciences but for the king's shil- 

 ling held out to them in the way of utilita- 

 rian mental opportunity. 



This argument is, of course, not the only 

 one. Noblesse oblige. An institution of 

 highest learning, with its costly outfit, is 

 bound to afford its community every species 

 of help it can for which there is call. Re- 

 wards may be ignored; they have a way of 

 appearing when due, the surer when not 

 expected or bargained for, 



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