COLLEGE AND STATE 



or country-life universities ; we need a few 

 of this type. 



The teaching of agriculture of college 

 and university grade ought not to be con- 

 fined to colleges of agriculture. All uni- 

 versities, at least, on their own account 

 and for their own best development, will 

 in time have departments of agriculture, if 

 they are real universities, as much as they 

 have departments of language or of en- 

 gineering. They cannot neglect any fun- 

 damental branches of learning. There 

 may be need, also, of a kind of agricultural 

 work that can best be done in an institution 

 that is independent of direct state support, 

 and that is not at once responsible to popu- 

 lar will. 



I propose now to sketch some of the 

 directions in which an institution of the 

 agricultural-university class may develop. 

 I am doing this because the public has not 

 had its imagination directed to this kind of 

 an educational equipment. 



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