colleges of agriculture, that draw their support conjointly 

 from the State and the nation . If any of these colleges are not 

 taking the leadership, they are not meeting their opportunity 

 or carrying their natural responsibility. It is said that the 

 government of some of them is not such as to attract the best 

 men or to encourage them to greatest action. If a due sense of 

 their obligation to society were imposed on them, it would at 

 once raise them out of political control and pedagogical 

 bondage. For years, these colleges have been praying for 

 funds and freedom to do their work. The obligation rests on 

 the people to demand that these colleges do the work that 

 is theirs to do. 



Coming now to New York, we find a College of Agriculture 

 that is wholly outside of partisan control. It can give all its 

 energies to educational work. I propose to explain to you 

 what I conceive this educational work to be. 



This College is a part of Cornell University, its policies being 

 determined by the President of the University and the Board 

 of Trustees ; and its work thereby is related broadly to general 

 educational development. 



Let me say, at the beginning, that this College of Agricul- 

 ture represents the State. Its purpose is to aid in developing 

 the resources of the State, in its materials, its affairs, and its 

 people. Its special field is the open country, by which we 

 mean that part of our civilization and welfare that lies chiefly 

 outside the cities. Its primary purpose is to develop those 

 industries and interests that rest on the producing power of 

 the land. Its work is constructive. 



