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receive the agricultural graduates of the western third of 

 the United States and train them for greater service in 

 the institutions from which they came is not only a privi- 

 lege but a responsibility and one which every other insti- 

 tution will welcome. If this institution assists in the prep- 

 aration of the future instructors and investigators of our 

 western colleges and prepares the teachers of agriculture 

 for the high schools of California, it will be performing a 

 service of untold value. The two ambitions to which ref- 

 erence has just been made are, of course, after all only a 

 minor part of the educational work of the College of 

 Agriculture? 



In developing our undergraduate departments, at least 

 some of them will be organized around the industries. Al- 

 ready we have the Departments of Dairy Industry, Animal 

 Industry, Agronomy or field culture, Citriculture, Viticul- 

 ture, Pomology or deciduous tree fruits, Floriculture and 

 landscape gardening. The reasons for this are many and 

 complex, but one important reason is that we are not teach- 

 in LT subjects, but students. The student is going to become 

 a lawyer, or a citrus grower, or a doctor, or a stock raiser, 

 or a teacher, or a dairyman. Harvard was founded to train 

 ministers and afterwards because ministers often gave so- 

 called medical advice, it began to train physicians. Later 

 lawyers were brought in out of the rain. 



The land grant colleges were founded to train young 

 men and women in the several pursuits and professions of 

 life, of which housekeeping is one in some localities. The 

 difficulty with agricultural teachers has been that they have 

 been absorbed in the pursuit of knowledge and obsessed 

 with the importance of their discoveries. Greek must be 

 made a good training subject or it cannot justify its ex- 

 istence in the university curriculum. Agriculture can be 

 made just as good a training subject if we remember we 

 are dealing with young men who have red blood in their 

 veins and who have an ambition to live a life of usefulness 

 and power. If we forget it, they had better study Greek. 



