SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 271 



CORNELL UNIVERSITY 



PRESENTED BY DELEGATE DEAN L. H. BAILEY 



To the State Board of Agriculture of the State of Michigan, and 

 the President and Faculty of the Michigan Agricultural 

 College, Greeting: 



The Board of Trustees, the president, and the faculty of 

 Cornell University tender their cordial congratulations on the 

 completion of the first half-century of the existence of the Michi- 

 gan Agricultural College. The oldest existing college of agri- 

 culture in the United States, it has been a leader in the teaching 

 of agriculture and in experiment and investigation; and its 

 successes in all these fields have been noteworthy. Its varied 

 experiments in pedagogy as applied to agriculture have been 

 of inestimable value to all later effort. And the faculty of the 

 College have included teachers whose influence in the training 

 of men for younger institutions has been potent and widespread. 



Cornell University trusts that the future of the Michigan 

 Agricultural College will realize the hopes and aspirations of its 

 founders, and that its measure of success will continue to increase. 



J. G. Schurman, President 



[SEAL] WM. A. HAMMOND' 



Secretary of the Faculty 

 Ithaca, N. Y. 

 May, 1907 



