ADDRESS FOR THE DENOMINATIONAL COLLEGES 



PRESIDENT AUGUST F. BRUSKE 



Alma College 



Mr. President, Ladies, and Gentlemen: 



I am here as the representative of a church school to offer 

 heartiest felicitations to a state school. I am glad of the privilege 

 of rendering this service, both because of our agreements and 

 because of our differences. We are agreed in that we are seek- 

 ing the highest culture of the young people placed under our 

 care. This is the rock foundation of every school in the world. 

 This is the sacred unity of all education. In the name of this 

 unity of culture I greet you today. 



But we are equally happy in our differences. The peculiar 

 purpose of your culture is indicated in the name you bear. 

 You are an "agricultural college." Your outlook is upon the 

 farm. The fragrance of the grain fields is yours; the sweet- 

 ness of the clover fields is yours; and the " cattle upon a 

 thousand hills" are yours. This does not mean that all of 

 your graduates will become farmers; but that all the graduates 

 choosing that vocation will be intelligent and scientific farmers. 

 Not every law student becomes an attorney; not every medical 

 student becomes a physician; and not every student of Alma 

 College becomes a preacher. Our constant endeavor is so to 

 train him that whether he becomes a preacher, teacher, or mer- 

 chant, he shall be a cultivated Christian gentleman, true to 

 the church, true to that "kingdom which is an everlasting 

 kingdom and that dominion that endureth through all genera- 

 tions." Your outlook is upon the farm, our outlook is upon 

 the church. Therefore there can be no strife between us. Our 

 congratulations this day are as sincere as they are hearty. We 



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