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Here in the center of the Island are laboring be- 

 tween thirty and forty young men, i. e. fully one- 

 third of all the alurnni (excluding the graduates of the 

 Military and Practical Departments, who are with 

 scarce an exception resident in the Island) in dif- 

 ferent branches of the Administration, education, 

 colonization, agriculture, forestry, fishery, engineer- 

 ing and geological survey. Though their individual 

 names are hidden in a mass of paper by the wonder- 

 ful working of red-tape machinery, yet any careful 

 and impartial observer will never fail to recognize, 

 that some ef the most substantial work of the Hok- 

 kaido Government was primarily the fruit of their 

 exertions. The town of Sapporo reaps no small 

 benefit from their presence; for they take a leading 

 part in the chief local concerns of an intellectual 

 nature. As the College was instrumental in first in- 

 troducing into Sapporo some elements of material 

 civilization, the bakery, the shoe-shop, the tailor- 

 ing establishment, etc., so are its sons now become 

 pioneers in the sphere of less material nature. The 

 Society for the Advancement of Agriculture, the 

 Fishery Association, the Natural Science Society, a 

 body called the Friends of Learning, the Pomologi- 

 cal Society, the Economic Club, the Young Men's 

 Christian Association, the Temperance Society, the 

 Silk Culture Association, and many other minor or- 

 ganizations all oount among their most active mem- 

 bers and promoters the graduates of the College. 

 Notwithstanding all this it must still be admitted 

 that her ripest fruits have not yet been borne. 

 President Oilman, speaking of the results achieved 

 by a university, named a generation as " the briefest 



