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will have to come before the college age. 

 The State will probably not multiply these 

 schools to the number of forty or sixty, and 

 the interests of the home, of the pupils, and 

 of the schools, will hardly suffer the separ- 

 ation from the home before the college age. 

 Then why not do the best we can for agri- 

 culture and for farmers' boys and girls, as 

 for all scientific subjects and for all voca- 

 tional training, in the existing local high 

 schools, and when pupils are able and dis- 

 posed to go away from home to school, 

 prepare them for college and send them 

 to an adequate college and have the 

 benefit of it ? And, looking at the other 

 side of it, why enter upon or pursue a 

 policy which must make the public high 

 school in the smaller villages merely a 

 preparatory school for the literary col- 

 leges ? These high schools are the peo- 

 ple's colleges. Why enter upon a course 



