COLLEGE AND STATE 



making a farm pay as a farm, without ask- 

 ing it to support teaching and experiments 

 in the bargain. 



These colleges represent the state. 

 Their general purpose is to aid in devel- 

 oping the resources of the state, in its 

 materials, its affairs, and its people. Their 

 special range is the open country. Their 

 primary field is to extend those industries 

 and interests that rest on the producing 

 power of the land. Their work is construc- 

 tive. They should strongly influence, and 

 perhaps even dominate, the agricultural 

 and country-life work of the public-school 

 system. 



Obligation on the part of the people 



It is not merely a set of institutions, com- 

 peting with other institutions, that we are 

 founding when we establish a system of 

 colleges of agriculture. These colleges are 

 only means or agencies of expanding the 

 welfare of the commonwealth, and they 

 should be thought of as a regular part of a 

 state program. I hear it said that agri- 

 cultural college men are " never satisfied " 

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