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and experiment stations throughout the country. No other 

 ao;ricultural colleo'e has furnished so many men for such 

 positions. One-sixth of all our graduates are employed 

 in agricultural colleges and experiment stations. Among 

 our graduates we find two college presidents, several pro- 

 fessors of agriculture, two directors of experiment stations, 

 and several vice-directors. Here indeed is a record to be 

 proud of, for an institution that graduated its first class 

 barely twenty-one years ago. Among those men not con- 

 nected with agricultural pursuits we find nine lawyers, 

 eisrhteen enoineers and eleven teachers. Medicine claims 

 no less than eighteen men, and there are two dentists and 

 four clergymen. These men, occupying the prominent posi- 

 tions they do, educated in sympathy with agriculture and 

 understanding its needs as they should, must exercise a 

 powerful influence in its favor. Many of them will doubt- 

 less some day own and manage farms. 



Business claims the greatest number among those of our 

 graduates who are not farmers, and no one who remembers 

 the splendid opportunities for the acquirement of wealth in 

 business pursuits will wonder that this should be the case. 



Our graduates touch agriculture, however, at other points. 

 Indeed, wherever they are found they are usually prominent 

 in every movement which tends to uplift the agricultural 

 classes. Thus we find among them numerous presidents 

 and secretaries of our agricultural societies, and members of 

 the State Board of Aijriculture. Two anions: them have 

 been masters of the State grange, two have been lecturers 

 of the State grange, and they are everywhere at the head of 

 local granges, farmers' clubs, etc. 



Surely no one who investigates the record of our grad- 

 uates will be disposed to deny that it is a creditable one. 



If it be objected that our graduates are not all formers, 

 let me ask whether the })roportion among our alumni en- 

 gaged in farming is not greater than is the proportion among 

 farmers' boys who never get beyond the high school who 

 till the soil. You must remember that a large proportion 

 of the young men who come to us come with no intention of 

 making farming their life-work. The opportunities in other 

 walks of life are so great, it is not to be wondered at that 



