SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 289 



RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND 

 MECHANIC ARTS 



PRESENTED BY DELEGATE PRESIDENT HOWARD EDWARDS 



To the Trustees, Faculty, and Students 0} Michigan Agricul- 

 tural College: 



There are certain tiraes in the life of an institution, as in that 

 of a person, when the well-directed labors of years receive their 

 meed of congratulation. And so the faculty of the Rhode Island 

 College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts is glad to send its 

 greetings to the Michigan Agricultural College on the occasion 

 of its Semi-Centennial Anniversary. 



It should indeed be a year of jubilee for the College, which 

 has been a pioneer in introducing and developing a new form 

 of education to meet the varied needs of a growing and diversi- 

 fied people. Without precedents to guide it, uncertain of its 

 relation to other state institutions, amid many perplexities and 

 discouragements, it succeeded in solving the problems of how 

 to co-ordinate the training of brain and hand and dignify in- 

 dustrial education. All similar institutions are thus its debtors, 

 and may well unite in paying tribute to fifty years of faithful 

 service. That the past work is but an earnest of even greater 

 future success is the sincere wish of a sister college. 



Very truly, 



[Seal] Harriet L. Merrow 



Secretary of the Faculty 

 May 24, 1907 



