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certain way on a higher plane than education up to this time 

 has been organized on a large scale in the country as a whole in 

 any other department. 



You will see why as a university president, interested in this 

 department of agricultural education only in proportion to its 

 importance as a part of the general scheme of education, I real- 

 ized the significance and the value of the great movement of 

 which this institution is such an able exponent. We at Illinois 

 are under special obligations to you of the Michigan Agricultural 

 College. Eugene Davenport, the great dean of our College of 

 Agriculture, Herbert Mumford, the organizer of our department 

 of animal husbandry, F. R. Crane of our farm mechanics depart- 

 ment, and Professor Goodenough of our mechanical engineering 

 department — all these and more do we owe to you, and we are 

 pleased to acknowledge the debt. 



I congratulate you upon your great past. I congratulate you 

 upon your claim to having been the first in the field, upon your 

 just claim that you were not only first but that you have made 

 good, that you have maintained a position of leadership and 

 that you propose to maintain it for the future. I congratulate 

 you on the outlook of the future, and I only wish that the next 

 fifty years of your life will bear out to the fullest extent the prom- 

 ise of the fifty that are past. 



