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tainly it has not been the plan where circum- 

 stances have not compelled it. The 

 strength of the universities has been in- 

 creased by the very coordination of their 

 colleges, the strength of teachers and the 

 potentiality of teaching has been enhanced 

 by association with other teachers and 

 other teaching; and the efficiency of stud- 

 ents has been promoted by contacts with 

 other subjects and with other students than 

 those within the limitations of their own 

 particular subject and their own particular 

 class. It has not been common anywhere 

 in the country to establish state schools 

 below the college grade except for defect- 

 ives or dependents, unless in association 

 with a large and comprehensive institution 

 and it is not too much to say that no school 

 of agriculture in this or in any other coun- 

 try has become markedly successful which 

 was not associated with a real university 



