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of the trouble comes from all over the country now. I like 

 to encourage men to be well educated, to be practical, 

 which is most important of all. 



Mr. Appletox. Mr. Chairman, I should like to say a 

 word for the labor fund in another way. In the classi- 

 cal colleges they have funds, and the men who show their 

 mental ability are given an interest in those funds. At our 

 college that $5,000 a year represents the income from the 

 State, and that is given to men at the college in proportion 

 as they show their ability and readiness to do physical work 

 simply. It is a bonus for men who are doing physical work. 



President Goodell. I should like to say just one more 

 word. Allusion has been made by Mr. Appleton to the 

 scholarships that are given in the classical colleges. In the 

 classical colleges it is, in other words, a premium to men to 

 go there to college, and they do not work for it in return. 

 It is a premium on laziness. It is not so in the agricultural 

 college. For every cent of money that is paid out to those 

 boys we get an honest equivalent in labor that comes back 

 in return, to the State. It is not charity. It is simply 

 assisting young men to get an education that they could not 

 get in any other way whatever. 



Mr. Appleton. I do not understand the president takes 

 exception to what I say ? 



President Goodell. Not at all. I only want to make 

 the distinction between the two. 



Mr. E. Moore (of Worcester). Do they intend to incor- 

 porate instruction with their mental labor and their physical 

 labor? Is it to help them in any degree? 



Professor Brooks. Much of the work which is carried on 

 is instructive; for instance, that to which I alluded, — the 

 work in tile draining. Most of the men there had never 

 seen anything of such work, and by actually engaging in it 

 and seeing all the various operations connected with it, they 

 learned a great deal. But these young men must work 

 whenever they have an oi)portunity, every day and all the 

 time. It IS not i)()ssible to make all the work they engage 

 in instructive. They nuist take hold of anything that needs 

 to be done at the time Avhen they have leisure to do it. 



Mr. Moore. Do they study engineering there? 



