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means he can earn his $50 on Saturdays, when there are no 

 college exercises. There are many students who earn twice 

 that sum at the college, and, in foct, I .should not be sur- 

 prised if there are some ahimni of the college in the audience 

 here this morning who can tell a story of some of their own 

 friends and classmates who have paid all their expenses at 

 the college while there, and even have graduated from the 

 college with more money in their pockets than they had 

 when they entered. 



One hundred and fifty dollars per year, then, is a liberal 

 estimate for all necessary expenses. The interest on this 

 sum for one year at six per cent is $9. Is it not worth 

 while to ask yourself seriously whether any better invest- 

 ment for your son can l)e made ? 



"But why should I send my l)oy to the Agricultural 

 College ? " yv)u ask. I answer, because — 



First. Thereby the l)oy receives an education that is a 

 development of his power and that will give him a better 

 chance in the race. This education is obtained not alone 

 from the instruction of the class-room and the study in 

 preparation for it, important and valuable as these may be. 

 He is educated by intercourse with his fellows. I would 

 put that, of course, as of the first value and importance, and 

 these are points which I think are very often overlooked, 

 and which those of us who have to do with the students at 

 college feel more and more are of great importance. He is 

 educated by intercourse with his fellows, and what does that 

 mean ? The success in life of many a young man would tell, 

 — the associations formed in college, the friendships formed 

 in college, the attachment to that man who after the years 

 had passed stood by his friend and helped him out of his 

 troul)le because he was his college friend, — that is the story 

 of many a college graduate. His success, his ability to go 

 forward in his work in life, has been wholly owing to the 

 fact that he had a friend in college who was able to help him. 

 He is educated l)y intercourse with his fellows, by the inter- 

 est he will take in all matters aft'ecting his life in the college, 

 by writing for the college paper and other publications to 

 which he will want you to subscribe ; by the library to which 

 he has free access and where he may bring his mind into 



