No. 4.] AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 809 



from the other ; neither can the hands of a truly educated 

 fanner be separated from the soil. 



We may say to all connected with the college : Be not 

 governed by or listen to old wives' fables or long-aij'o ex- 

 ploded ideas. Idealists come and go ; but truth, though 

 buried in the earth, abides forever. Seek and find it. 



These old New England hills yet hold more riches for 

 the world, in thought, study, capabilities and availabilities, 

 than do the gold fields of Alaska. Draw near to mother 

 earth, from whence we came and whither we go, and learn 

 of her. 



It is not too vast for our present conception. We already 

 see glimmerings of the coming day. In earth, air and sea 

 we find the key to the great megaphone that not only holds 

 the earthquakes, the thunderings and the lightnings, but 

 also the whisperings and gentle breathings of the long-past 

 and dying ages. To accomplish this, let the college do the 

 work, the State pay the needful bills ungrudgingly. Nail 

 agriculture to the flag stall*, and let "Aggie " live on and on. 



JOHN BURSLEY. 

 C. K. BREWSTER. 

 WESLEY B. BARTON. 

 ALVAN BARRUS. 

 W. C. JEWETT. 



