SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 299 



TRANSLATION OF TABULA CONGRATULATONIA 



Prosperity, happiness, and good auspices to the most celebrated agri- 

 cultural college of the trans-oceanic state of Michigan, in the United States of 

 North America, the oldest among the institutions of its kind and serving as a 

 model to all of them. 



In this college men, whose glorious names are known among all civilized 

 nations, have for ten series of semidecades most faithfully and strenuously 

 sustained the idea expressed by the greatest (first) among them, a man of highest 

 distinctions, Joseph R. Williams, at the inauguration of the institution: namely, 

 that all systems of knowledge and all sciences, to any degree participating in the 

 promotion of the science of agriculture, in this very way lead to the preservation 

 of the home and to the unity of all skilled industries into a single body. 



The teachers and students of this institution at no time ceased to investi- 

 gate, by way of reasoning and experimentation, problems connected with the 

 increased production of the fields and with the combating of the dangers mena- 

 cing the work of the tiller of the soil. And many problems dealing with the defy- 

 ing of pests upon cattle, with the checking and the extermination of minute 

 animal forms obnoxious to plants, with the management of the dairy and the 

 fertility of the soil, and numberless others have been solved in a most successful 

 and glorious way. 



The results of these investigations are broadly disseminated by the experi- 

 ment stations, which are in a most able manner distributed all over the country, 

 so that the discoveries made in the laboratories soon become the possession of 

 the tillers of the soil and the breeders of cattle; and thus the agricultural interests 

 of the entire country receive a powerful impetus. 



To the school which in such a glorious way and so fruitfully serves the in- 

 terests of science and practical agriculture we send our heartiest congratulation 

 upon this thirteenth day of May of the year MDCCCCVII (1907) destined 

 for the celebration of the sacred semi-centennial festivals; we proudly pray 

 (offer vows) for the welfare and happiness of the institution and testify our 

 friendship and our best wishes. 



The Rector and Senate 



of the Friedrich Halle- Wittenberg University 



Carolus Robert 



