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have, and they have had to be more aggres- 

 sive; and the measure of influence, if not 

 of control, which they have had over the 

 State universities has enabled them to 

 solve difficulties and find ways for making 

 agricultural colleges actually serviceable. 

 Out of it all, the ways to that end are much 

 clearer there and here than they used to 

 be. The available funds of Cornell have 

 all been used in other directions, and if any- 

 thing worth while was to be done the State 

 has had to do it, and I have been very glad 

 that it has done it and not made the mistake 

 in agricultural college work at least, of so 

 scattering its benefactions and its direc- 

 tions that there would be only indifferent 

 result. 



The Need of Democracy in Agricultural 



Education 



So far, so good but that is far from the 

 sum of the matter. Before any system of 



