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educate a man as well as to make a worker. I claim that a well- 

 balanced course of agriculture, properly taught, trains men, and 

 that it has definite educational values. Hence such a course is 

 still an educator of men as well as a trainer of workers. The man 

 is trained as a worker and the worker is educated as a man. In the 

 same way in which a man is educated hy his work, so a man may be 

 educated in the process of being trained for his work. 



Let us then put agriculture into the schools ever\"\vhere. Let us 

 have separate schools of agriculture wherever such schools can be 

 maintained. Let us also put agriculture into the regular work of 

 existing schools. Let us give every boy and girl in the common- 

 wealth a chance to prepare for farm life, and at least to use the 

 splendid materials offered by agriculture in securing a broader 

 outlook upon life. 



Discussion. 



Dr. David F. Lincoln asked for further information concerning 

 the proposed Northampton school. 



Pres. Butterfield replied that he was not familiar with all the 

 plans but it was expected to open the school next autumn. It is 

 established as the result of a provision made by Mr. Smith of 

 Northampton some sixty years ago. After much delay the city 

 has decided to aid in organizing it and a director has been chosen. 



It will be a school for youth who desire to get practical work 

 in horticulture and husbandry on the farm and at the same 

 time have some regular school studies with it. The aim of the 

 course will be to give general as well as technical instruction. He 

 stated that a farm had been purchased on the outskirts of North- 

 ampton and that it would be a boarding school. He said that 

 this kind of a school would develop in a little different way than an 

 agricultural high school, or any organization in a small town. It 

 will become a sort of a semi-agricultural college, though open to 

 boys as young, perhaps, as fourteen years. They will take up sub- 

 jects not taken in college. The length of the course is to be four 

 years and a course of study has been outlined in a pamphlet issued 

 by the Commission on Industrial Education. Pres. Butterfield 

 said he thought there was need of such an institution in the state. 



