building that collegiate courses of study can offer, 

 yet without departing materially from giving 

 special emphasis to those subjects which are di- 

 rectly related to the homes and the chief industry 

 of the state. 



The purpose is not only to increase production 

 as a means of profit and to render helpful social 

 service, but to make farm life and rural conditions 

 so agreeable and satisfying that the choice of 

 agricultural pursuits, on the part of educated 

 young people, will prove as popular and inviting 

 as that of any other industry or profession. This 

 is not an impossibility. From an educational view- 

 point no vocation exceeds agriculture in the ma- 

 terial available for calling out the best there is in 

 man, spiritually or intellectually. From a social 

 viewpoint, the country represents the purest and 

 most neighborly sympathies. And from an in- 

 dustrial viewpoint it is the state's support and 

 should be the state's pride. North Dakota will 

 expand in wealth and influence, therefore, in pro- 

 portion as she throws wide open the door of agri- 

 cultural opportunity for the young people of the 

 state. This she can best accomplish by means of 

 public education expressed in terms of rural life. 



After twenty years of service as President of 

 your Agricultural College, I find that my chief 

 gratification comes from having associated daily 

 with a loyal and dependable faculty and with so 

 many clean, ambitious and sympathetic young 

 men and women. 



In you and the thousands of Agricultural Col- 

 lege students scattered over this and adjoining 

 states, many of them having already won enviable 

 distinction by their public services, and all giving 

 evidence of most exemplary citizenship, I not only 

 take sincere pride but also find my chief reward. 

 Others may scheme for wealth or fame, but for 



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