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The successful teacher of agricultural subjects must not 

 only be concerned with his subject and with his students, 

 but if he is also an investigator, as every good teacher should 

 be, he must concern himself with the people in the industry 

 which he teaches. There is no state in the Union where 

 it is so necessary for the agricultural professor to know 

 thoroughly his subject before he undertakes to deal with 

 the men who make their living from agriculture as here. 

 In California they do not hunt grizzlies with shotguns. 



The College of Agriculture is not merely a teaching 

 institution. It has three phases: research, education, and 

 public service. When it comes to organizing its research 

 work, especially where large questions and interests are in- 

 volved, we shall organize around the problem rather than 

 around the industry. These strictly research departments 

 will not be charged with undergraduate teaching, but will 

 be permitted to take post-graduate students. A real post- 

 graduate student is one who is working out some problem. 

 Thus there has been organized a research department with 

 headquarters at Riverside. There has been called to preside 

 over this department Dr. H. J. Webber, Professor of Plant 

 Breeding of Cornell University, who is one of the best known 

 teachers of post-graduate students in this country. 



In the location of its headquarters the College of Agri- 

 culture is somewhat unique among institutions of its kind. 

 Its location has been looked upon as an element of weak- 

 ness. As the institution develops, I think it will be found 

 to be, on the contrary, an element of great strength. It 

 puts us face to face with the problem of how to give to the 

 students of agriculture the training and experience which 

 they must have in order to succeed in any one of several 

 agricultural pursuits. The plan is to bring the student to 

 the close of his sophomore year with as thorough a training 

 in English, mathematics, language, history, and science as 

 his years of schooling will permit. In addition to these 

 studies, each student before reaching the junior year is to 



