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Dr. Jordan. I want to talk to you just a moment oft' my 

 elbows and not oft* paper. I am glad to hear these com- 

 ments. Professor Stockbridge was teaching these things 

 when I was a boy at college. I am going to shake hands 

 with him at the close of the meeting. 



Professor Stockbridge. Come now. 



After shaking hands with Professor Stockbridge, Profes- 

 sor Jordan said : That does me good. Now, the value of 

 the agricultural college is not measured by dollars and 

 cents. The first thing on the farm is the man, the spirit 

 in the man. We are not in the grip of conditions, we grip 

 conditions. In some communities men get in a despondent 

 condition when they think hard times are around them. 

 But you take a community of people who have absolute 

 faith in their ability to control themselves and their busi- 

 ness and the conditions around them, and they will do it. 

 "We depend on legislation altogether too much for the con- 

 trol of conditions we have in our own grip. In the State 

 of New York we have a tremendous institute system. My 

 friends who are managing these institutes to a large ex- 

 tent are men from Cornell and from Geneva Experiment 

 Station, who are with only one exception either graduates 

 from the farm or agricultural departments of our colleges. 

 I have in the Geneva Experiment Station ten men from the 

 State of Michigan, five residents of that State, and most of 

 them are graduates of the Michigan Agricultural College. I 

 have not been able to get any from Amherst, because they 

 are all snapped up to go elsewhere. In these institutes the 

 people are giving attention not only to the business side of 

 agriculture but to certain discussions of domestic economy, 

 and all these things that have a tendency to uplift the 

 people. 



Dr. Lindsey. After listening for an hour or more to the 

 extremely interesting address and to the discussion, I feel 

 very much like putting on my coat and going home to my 

 closet and sitting down and thin kino-. I feel that it would 

 be unwise almost for me to be vulgar enough to stay here 

 and attempt to touch, as it were, anything that the speaker 

 has said. It seems that he has treated his subject so 

 thoroughly that it would be unwise for me in any way to 



