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lege was called upon to corroborate or modify the opinions of his 

 assistants. All facts were weighed, statements were sifted, dif- 

 fering local conditions between Illinois and other states were con- 

 sidered, and the committee used its best judgment to separate and 

 discard all fads and theoretical fancies. It had in view, first, 

 efficiency, and, hardly second, almost equally economy. In other 

 words, its attempt was to make such recommendations as would 

 secure for the people of Illinois in its College of Agriculture, a 

 great, strong, economically and practically organized public ser- 

 vice institution which should work to the betterment of the whole 

 people of our commonwealth. 



The Findings of the Committee. 



Having been so courteously received at every institution vis- 

 ited, and so freely and so fully advised as to the details of organ- 

 ization and management in each case, it would have been highly 

 improper to make specific statements or criticisms. It may suf- 

 fice to say in general that the committee found much to commend 

 and much to recommend for adoption in our own College. It 

 also found some things to criticize, notably in some institutions 

 what appeared to the committee to be extravagant expenditure 

 for buildings and for equipment. It found that the best work 

 was not in all cases being done where expensive buildings and 

 expensive equipment existed. On the other hand it found in 

 other institutions where the buildings and equipment were inade- 

 quate, that the work of a good corps of men was not so effective 

 as it should be. Its findings are based on the necessity for a high 

 grade staff, reasonably good equipment which will permit of ob- 

 taining the best results of which the staff is capable, and of a suf- 

 ficient number of plain, well built, substantial, but not high 

 priced buildings to house the equipment and to furnish room for 

 properly and economically giving the instruction and research 

 demanded. 



