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nothing that could be taught to the farmer from books. 

 Gradually in India, as in America, the idea is taking 

 hold that the farm, the ultimate source of food, as the 

 supplier of food for the toilers in the busy cities is 

 worth the best brains the country can produce. Some 

 of the students of these early days are now rural sec- 

 retaries for the Y.M.C.A. ; some have received in addi- 

 tion to agricultural training, special training in rural 

 economics and are now organizing rural cooperation so- 

 cieties among the outcastes; some are managing estates 

 for large land-owners ; some are members of our faculty ; 

 some are in charge of mission work in orphanages and 

 schools; some are farming for themselves; some are 

 working in Native States ; and although some are neither 

 a credit to themselves nor to the institution, yet I know 

 of no other form of mission education in India where so 

 many of those trained have put to the good of their 

 fellows the training received and are a credit to the 

 institution that trained them. 



Harry Dutt was the son of an Indian Pastor, a nice 

 boy but lazy. He felt that the Mission owed him an 

 education. He had become parasitic in spirit. Owing 

 to ill health he had not appeared to take his college en- 

 trance examinations, so could not go to college. I was 

 urged to admit him to the Agricultural Institute, and fin- 

 ally, after much misgiving, consented. During the first 

 year I watched him carefully, and at the end of it I 

 called him to my office and said, ""Well, Harry, I have 

 observed you carefully for this year and I have come to 

 the conclusion that for your own good and the welfare 

 of the institution, you had better make arrangements to 

 go somewhere else for next year. I consider you thor- 

 oughly lazy. Your influence and example on the other 



