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tunity for training in the affairs of life. The 

 agricultural department or college of an exist- 

 ing so-called "liberal culture" university or 

 college has been able, so far as it has been 

 efficient, to drive home the personal and vital 

 subjects and to cause them to be recognized as 

 a coordinate part of a broad education. The 

 rise of public sentiment, and the growth of 

 wisdom among educators, are welding the old 

 and the new: the agricultural teaching is be- 

 ing liberalized; the traditional teaching is 

 being practicalized. 



Just now another movement for personal 

 education is well set in. It is the movement 

 for the teaching of agriculture in the common 

 schools. Significantly enough, it is mostly a 

 separatist movement. We are attempting to 

 isolate it by establishing separate agricultural 

 schools or by organizing separate classes in 

 existing schools. The establishing of separate 

 schools is repeating for the common schools 

 what has been the history of the development 

 of the colleges. It assumes that the existing 

 schools should not teach agriculture or that 



