COLLEGE AND STATE 



who have not been in bondage to educational 

 tradition or pedagogical theory and who 

 for twenty-five and fifty years have been 

 trying to make education meet the plain 

 needs f life. These purposes have been 

 placed into the institutions by persons who 

 have seen the farm problem rather than 

 the college problem. 



These colleges of agriculture are forcing 

 a new definition of education. The institu- 

 tion does not passively accept students who 

 come : all persons in the commonwealth are 

 properly students of a state educational 

 institution, but very few of them yet have 

 registered; nor is it necessary that any 

 great proportion of them should leave 

 home in order to receive some of the bene- 

 fits of the institution. It is the obligation 

 of such an institution to serve all the peo- 

 ple, and it is equally the obligation of all 

 the people to make the institution such that 

 it can exercise its proper functions ; and all 

 this can be brought about without sacri- 

 ficing any worthy standards of education. 



The work of these institutions, therefore, 

 is not to be judged merely by formalities 

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