SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 359 



in "the sciences bearing on agriculture and the mechanic 

 arts." 



I have held and defended these views for nearly forty years, 

 mostly against heavy popular odds, but I do not fail to recognize 

 and fully appreciate the inestimable services which the Michigan 

 College has rendered to the cause of agricultural education. 

 First in the field, and with few available precedents to act upon, 

 amid intensely practical surroundings, she took what appeared 

 to be the most obvious and direct course toward the desired end, 

 thus giving an object-lesson of the greatest importance to all the 

 younger states and colleges. Therefore, in my view, the achieve- 

 ments of the Michigan Agricultural College during the second 

 half-century upon which she is now entering, can hardly be 

 more widely useful than have been those of the first, the end of 

 which brings her well-deserved congratulations from all parts 

 of the United States. 



EUG. W. HiLGARD 



