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houses, nurseries, gardens, orchards and vineyards, wherein 

 may be seen all prominent varieties of garden, orchard and 

 vineyard crops, as well as a very full collection of orna- 

 mental species. We have model dormitories, a fine chapel 

 and library building, and a convenient drill-hall. We have 

 laboratories and apparatus ; our library is already one of 

 the most complete agricultural libraries in the country, and 

 is rapidly growing, thanks to the enthusiastic labors of our 

 president. 



In this beautiful spot, and working with this measurably 

 adequate equipment, we have an earnest body of ten men, 

 the fticulty of the college. And yet, as I have admitted, 

 there has undoubtedly been some dissatisfaction on the part 

 of some of our students. This is perhaps up to a certain 

 extent inevitable ; but it may have l)een, and I think it has 

 been, in part due to a removable cause. I may not be right ; 

 but, first as student and later as teacher, I have had con- 

 siderable opportunities for observation, and I belies e that 

 one o;reat cause for such dissatisfaction as has existed has 

 been due to the nature of the course of study. It has been 

 an attempt to suit in the same course two widely different 

 classes of men. I should be unjust to characterize these two 

 classes as the In-iwht and the dull. Those whom some mioht 

 call dull, in their own way may be as bright as the others. 

 But in every class which has entered may have been found, 

 to borrow a somewhat famous expression, a line of cleavage. 

 On the one side of this line are found the men with the 

 greater aptitude for books, the men who have received 

 superior preparation for entrance, the men who have no 

 taste for manual labor with their own hands, the men who 

 propose to get a living by intellectual rather than by physi- 

 cal exertion, — men who, if they elect to serve agriculture 

 at all, will serve her as teachers, writers, investigators, 

 eno-iiieers, veterinarians. On the other side will be found 

 men, usually from country districts, who have less aptitude 

 for' books and science ; men who have received an inferior 

 preparation for admission ; men, often from farms, who pro- 

 pose to go back again to the farm, to guide the plough with 

 their own hands ; men who will serve agriculture perhaps 

 even more efiiciently than those of the first class, but by 



