SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 33 



nings, side by side with the pioneer, this institution started in 

 the dense woods. Here through the same processes as were 

 followed by the people of the state whom it was organized to 

 assist, woods were cleared away, stumps were grubbed out, lands 

 were drained, and, step by step, as its usefulness could be proven, 

 it has grown until today it exists a monument to the wise councils 

 and untiring energies of those who have managed its affairs 

 and a great credit to the state. Aye, beyond this, it stands as 

 more than a peer of all like institutions in all the states of our 

 whole country. In all of its beauty, magnitude, and broad 

 influence, is it all that it should be ? We answer, No, and it 

 cannot be so long as there exists other of our state educational 

 institutions receiving greater support from the state than does 

 this College. 



Not that I would make the University less, but I would 

 make the Agricultural College more. I would make it more 

 nearly representative in point of magnitude, scope of work, and 

 equipment, of the interests it represents or stands for. It 

 would seem but in line of justice and for the real welfare of the 

 state that our higher schools of learning should be placed and 

 maintained upon a basis reasonably comparable with the impor- 

 tance of the interests each may most directly represent. 



This comparison should go deep enough to consider not 

 only their relative social, intellectual, and professional impor- 

 tance to the state, but as well the comparative numbers of people 

 engaged in the different interests and the comparative importance 

 of each to the state's welfare. Then we must consider the 

 technical training and the experimental results necessary to 

 enable each class to meet successfully the intricate propositions 

 which are essential to success, and which are of such a nature 

 as to make them impossible of attainment by individual effort. 

 The greatest good to the greatest number of people can be laid 

 down as a safe and sane policy of state, but this must not be 

 interpreted to mean that even the welfare of the few is not essen- 



