standing and as this new building was rising, I often 

 thought how dramatic it would be to point from this noble 

 granite building to the creek-spanning shack below and 

 thus indicate the growth of the department. It was our 

 only chance of suggesting a physical perspective. But a 

 few weeks ago someone, ignorant of the sacred memory of 

 the old building, knocked it to pieces for blotting the 

 landscape, no doubt. What can we do to get the foundation 

 for a perspective when buildings depart and men alone are 

 permanent ? 



In the thick ruck of recency in which we are enfolded 

 we gape for something which will serve future generations 

 as a vanishing point for their perspective and happily we 

 find it and hold it aloft and, lo, it is the life of a man! 

 And so we carve an exponent of it in enduring bronze and 

 place it at the entrance of our first enduring building and 

 charge it to mark the beginnings of a new epoch an epoch 

 in which agriculture will really attain the prominence in 

 University affairs which was intended by those who 

 arranged for the establishment of this institution in the 

 congress of the United States in 1862. This achievement is 

 based upon the thought and work of Hilgard. All his 

 associates accept him as an exponent of their ideals of 

 agricultural science of their efforts toward dissemination of 

 agricultural intelligence and of their confidence in agri- 

 cultural development in this state. They have shared with 

 him for years, full recognition of the opportunity for the 

 erection here of an institution which shall stand pre- 

 eminent not only in the demonstration of principle but in 

 the exposition of the peculiar arts of production which shall 

 signalize the Pacific Ocean countries as the greatest on 

 earth in the extent and variety of their agriculture. 



We unveil, then, this effigy of Hilgard, not as a me- 

 morial of his, for he needs none ; his fame will live without 

 such a token ; his life is written in his work and that cannot 

 be forgotten. What purpose, then, does this bronze serve? 

 It is an enduring record of our appreciation of Hilgard : a 



