COLLEGE AND STATE 



ought to rest with the people themselves. I 

 am aware that this may seem to be utopian. 

 I do not expect that such a condition will 

 come all at once, but even a partial change 

 of attitude toward constructive state work 

 would solve more difficulties than we can 

 now appreciate, and this change ought not 

 to be difficult to secure ; and the colleges of 

 agriculture cannot do their best work until 

 this attitude develops. This will come 

 when government by influence begins to 

 pass away. The attitude of the public 

 toward these questions is wrong. 



Different kinds of colleges of agriculture 



The scope of any given college of agri- 

 culture must be determined by the size and 

 nature of the commonwealth, and the char- 

 acter of other educational institutions that 

 have already been established in the state. 

 When the state has divided its work of 

 higher education between a university and 

 a college of agriculture, the development 

 of the college will necessarily be unlike 

 that of a college of agriculture that is a 

 part of the university. When the two are 

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