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KESPONSE OF THOMAS FOKSYTH HUNT, DEAN OF THE 



COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND DIRECTOR OF THE 



AGRICULTURE EXPERIMENT STATION OF 



THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, UPON 



FORMAL INDUCTION INTO OFFICE 



In accepting the responsibility of Dean of the College of 

 Agriculture and Director of the Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, it must be recognized that I represent only one of 

 the agencies by which the University of California seeks 

 to develop the commonwealth. The office into which I have 

 just been formally inducted typifies the University's rela- 

 tion to the public welfare. The organization thus repre- 

 sented looks back over a generation of steady and successful 

 development under the guidance of but two directors, both 

 of whom have the unique distinction of remaining as 

 honored members of the faculty. The institution will honor 

 itself during this day's exercises by remembering them 

 with loving kindness. 



With every generation of men new problems arise. 

 Through the operation of this law, the College of Agri- 

 culture finds itself in just that attitude. Some of these 

 problems are the most important as well as the most funda- 

 mental with which the Anglo-Saxon race has grappled 

 during the past forty centuries. The faculty of the College 

 of Agriculture suffers no illusions concerning its own limi- 

 tations and makes no promises beyond pledging its best 

 endeavors. 



Upon behalf of himself and his associates the Dean and 

 Director appeals to all agencies, public and private, for 

 assistance and guidance. He asks the sympathy and 

 patience of the governor of the state, the president of the 

 University, the Board of Kegents, faculty and citizens of 

 California, while the following sane, safe, and sensible 



