No. 4.] INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. 19 



INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. 



BY Dll. C. S. MURKLAND, PRESIDENT, NEW HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE 

 OF AGRICULTURE AND THE MECHANIC ARTS. 



Mr. Chairman, members of the IMassachusetts Board of 

 Agriculture, and friends : It is with great pleasure that I 

 am permitted to speak here to-day. It occurred to me while 

 your chairman was speaking that undoubtedly one of the 

 reasons why the New Hampshire college was moved nearer 

 to your border was because of the strong attractive tendency 

 of the State of Massachusetts, naturally drawing us by its 

 educational energy ; and I am very sure that all we in New 

 Hampshire who are interested in education are delighted to 

 get nearer Massachusetts, either locally, or in spirit, in pur- 

 pose and in method. 



The necessity of condensing what I might wish to say in 

 the time allotted me has compelled me to leave some im- 

 portant matters utterly unmentioned, and to briefly touch 

 upon others, simply commenting upon a few points ; for the 

 subject of industrial education is not one which can be dis- 

 posed of in a few words, — it is a subject which touches 

 vitally the interests of our people. Without further intro- 

 duction let me say : — 



It is the misfortune of educational movements that they 

 have always to deal not only with the resistance of ultra- 

 conservatism but also with the impatience of impetuous 

 radicalism. On the one hand is the drag of objection, on 

 the score that that which has been o:ood enough before is 

 good enough now ; and on the other hand is the strain of 

 insistance upon perfection, as if educational methods and 

 results might spring forth fully developed, as Minerva was 

 said to spring fully equipped from the head of Jove. One 

 class of people clamors against anything largely new in 



