mother tongue. Here, indeed, may be verified the 

 saving: "The first shall be last and the last shall 

 be first. " 



While we honor the sculptor, the painter or the 

 poet whose genius partakes of the immortal, and 

 yet satisfies no hungry -mouth, some degree of 

 honor might well be given to this other sort of 

 genius which lias multiplied human food beyond 

 computation and has otherwise so largely miti- 

 gated the burdens of life. 



Vocational Education. From the foregoing it 

 is little wonder that the education of the masses is 

 surely and rapidly gravitating from the classical 

 to the utilitarian, from the formal to the vocation- 

 al. The world's work must be done, and as those 

 whose stewardship is the soil are compelled to 

 render a combined physical and mental service 

 in order to discharge their social obligations, they 

 are entitled to education in harmony with the 

 tasks awaiting them, to the end that they may 

 work intelligently, hence joyfully. 



Agriculture and engineering, therefore, are 

 fundamental vocations when considered either 

 from the view-point of necessity or the country's 

 prosperity. By many, however, the spiritual well- 

 being of a people is considered paramount, and in 

 a sense it is, but a cheerful soul seldom inhabits 

 a naked or hungry body. 



As food, clothing and shelter are absolute 

 necessities, no degree of culture or religious 

 enthusiasm can render them less needful. 

 Heaven's choicest physical gift, the soil, provides 

 the means for acquiring these indispensable neces- 

 sities, and the vocation that accepts the respon- 

 sibility of its stewardship ministers to the physic- 

 al, as educators minister to the mental, or the 

 clergy to the spiritual needs of man. Moreover, 



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