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priations for other purposes were favored by them. Here 

 again it was the influence of the viticultural interest that 

 first pushed through the legislature an outright appropria- 

 tion for a building; but it was rendered so inadequate by 

 a little clause slipped in that it sufficed for only half a 

 building. But we built this on a large foundation and 

 when it was halfway up the first floor was roofed over with 

 a temporary roof of felt, leaving the second floor an 

 "aching void." At the next session of the legislature a 

 committee of university inspection was sent from Sacra- 

 mento. They commented with some amusement on the 

 "rump" building representing the College of Agriculture, 

 and promptly reported on their return a bill appropriating 

 funds enough to complete the building and equip it 

 modestly. 



That building, grown up by instalments, housed the 

 College of Agriculture up to March, 1897, when it burned 

 down to the first floor, with heavy loss in collections and 

 equipment. In rebuilding it was lengthened by fifty feet, 

 thus adding the present large lecture room and the much- 

 needed rooms above it. How even with this enlargement 

 the building soon became totally inadequate for the accom- 

 modation of the rapidly increasing demands and activities, 

 and how the working staff was forced to expand into several 

 neighboring buildings, including a horse stable, is known 

 to all here present. The second Morrill Act, the Hatch Act, 

 and the Adams Act, the last two specially providing for 

 experimental work, supplied the means for work but not 

 for buildings, and so served to increase the over-crowding. 

 Legislative provision for a permanent building was still 

 unobtainable owing to the opposition already referred to; 

 but the Regents, appreciating the importance of a creditable 

 permanent agricultural building on the University grounds, 

 appropriated the means for the present building out of the 

 general University income. This accomplished fact before 

 us, I hail as the final happy termination of the forty years' 

 contention for the principle of having the university 



