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— that it was the peculiar character of that single individual 

 which made all its fame. No second Von Thayer has appeared. 

 That those scholars who have been fully educated in these schools 

 are universally so proud of their acquirements, that when employed 

 on large estates (for no small one can employ them at all,) their 

 manners are so disgusting to the laboring masses that they cannot 

 maintain their positions as overseers, &c. And in reference to all 

 colleges it is known that their alumni do not love practical labor 

 .In agriculture or in mechanics — they aim at exemption from all 

 muscular and hardy exertion; they claim to rule the rest of man- 

 kind by head work, not hand work. And yet all men know the 

 great law of our Creator, " to earn our daily bread by the labor 

 and sweat of our bodies;^' nor is there any other way, nor would 

 it be good for men not to sweat for it ! The evil one watches for 

 those who do no work, of such is his kingdom. Enough said, 

 perhaps. We may conclude, however, by leaving experiment to 

 the few who will take it up and tell us the result, but not to 

 encourage the wild idea that the vast labors of the agricultural 

 world can be done by alumni of colleges. No, sir! Mr. Waring, 

 a very young observer, lias hit the point : Give as many con- 

 densed cheap books for the farmer's use as may fill every common 

 school and every farm house. That's it, sir ! 

 Club adjourned. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



February 3, 1857. 



Present — Messrs. Pell, A. Bergen, Hon. R. S. Livingston, War- 

 ing, Vail, Professor Mapes, Amos Gore, Pardee, Brower, Leonard, 

 Chambers, Mons. Blot, Stacey and others — 46 in all. 



Secretary Meigs read the following papers, translated by him, 

 viz: 



AGRICULTURAL BUREAU OF CANADA. 



We have received from our valued and learned correspondent, 

 Mons. L. A. Huguet Latour, N. P., of Montreal, in Canada East, 

 a copy of the Act of Parliament, 16th year of the reign of Queen 

 Victoria, relative to this subject. We are fond of bringing before 

 our fellow-citizens all such acts, as so many good examples for us 



