SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 113 



American life. You who celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of 

 this institution realize, as the history of this College has shown, 

 that it is not simply larger crops and better breeds of stock and 

 a more profitable output of farm manufacture for which you are 

 laboring; but through these means and through all other inter- 

 ests of the modern farm, you are working for the improvement 

 of American citizenship, and that with special reference to the 

 needs of this great state of Michigan. May you long continue 

 to serve the commonwealth and the larger republic as faith- 

 fully and as successfully. And may every good cause in this 

 land feel the reinforcement of a wholesome and vigorous life in 

 the homes of our country communities, which have been made 

 more prosperous homes and better homes because of the work 

 that you are doing here. 



