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because when an agricultural college has 

 the large advantage of being a college in a 

 university, it may count much upon the 

 privileges which are common to all. By 

 the time one who is to live on a farm goes 

 away from home to an agricultural college, 

 it is time he was given his fill of agricultural 

 instruction that is actual and real. But a 

 real college, properly sustained by the 

 schools below, will gather students who can 

 matriculate and thus make an impression 

 upon the State which will endure. The 

 State Agricultural College must be sensi- 

 tive to rational and responsible agricultur- 

 al initiative. It must not only train men to> 

 manage farms, but it must train teachers, 

 for agricultural work in the schools below. 

 It must be scholarly, but it must be as demo- 

 cratic as it is scholarly. There are people 

 who think that impossible. Therein lies 

 the difference between the old academic 



