36 Agriculture and Its Needs 



or had not become in fact, if not in name, 

 a real university itself. And I am bound 

 to look with some regret upon any New 

 York policy which would put students 

 of agriculture in an enclosure by them- 

 selves and deny to agricultural students 

 the associations with other students which 

 their interests imperatively demand. 



There are practical as well as education- 

 al difficulties. For example, the courses 

 at these schools will have to be progressive 

 and extend over a term of years in order to 

 have any respectable result; and unless 

 their number is to be indefinitely extended 

 unless, for example, there shall be at 

 least one in every county students will 

 have to be separated from home and live 

 at these schools for terms, semesters, and 

 years together. The break with the home 

 will have to be practically as complete as it 

 is with college students. And the break 



