this form of instruction at a distance from the university. 

 Equally important is it that the stricter training in the 

 science of agriculture which is to provide the teachers and 

 discoverers should be conducted at least in the earlier years 

 at the university. 



What we saw once as in a glass darkly, we are coming 

 now to see clearly. We have with all this variety of equip- 

 ment and location the opportunity to develop in California 

 the completest and richest system of agricultural education 

 and research that the world has yet seen. We have made 

 our beginning. We have the place for it and the sky for 

 it and the heart for it. We will prove it to the people of 

 California well worth while and they will support us. 



ADDRESS OF PETER J. SHIELDS 



It would be impossible, in the few moments which the 

 circumstances permit, for me to fittingly express the signifi- 

 cance of this hour. It is the culmination of long years of 

 waiting, of the slow growth of a Western civilization ; the 

 fruit of fine hopes and patient, unselfish efforts. It is the 

 beginning of a larger effort to teach men the sound princi- 

 ples which have stood the test of experience and which in 

 all ages have given security and happiness to the peoples 

 that have practiced them. I should like to felicitate with 

 you over what has been done, but we must press on for 

 what remains for us to do. I should like to speak a few 

 words in praise of those who have helped in this work, but 

 they do not need it. It is enough that their wish has been 

 realized; that the truth for which they labored, today 

 receives this high sanction. I should like to speak of agri- 

 culture as one of the noblest of all occupations, but it is in 

 submission to that truth that we are here and it does not 

 need expression. 



We have contended warmly over what was education, 

 as to what were its aids and its agencies. Some of us have 

 doubted whether men might be educated through things, 



