66 Agriculture and Its Needs 



agine that, as it cost the State nothing, it 

 was looked upon with a good measure of 

 legal and administrative considerateness, 

 as it certainly deserved to be. By rea- 

 son of the sagacious location of the State 

 lands, by other gifts, and by hard strug- 

 gling, a great and influential university 

 has grown up on the hillside at Ithaca. By 

 reason of the circumstances of its origin, of 

 its imperative legal obligations, and of 

 the fact that its first two presidents cov- 

 ering terms of twenty-four years were 

 professors from the University of Michigan, 

 it partook of the form, of many of the fac- 

 tors, and of much of the spirit of the state 

 universities. Because of the scholarships, 

 and for other reasons, it stands in rather 

 close relations to our State system of edu- 

 cation. All honor to the men who have 

 done it, and to all of the men and 

 women whose sympathies have entered into 



