ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION.. 



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There are many many ways a man may graduate from this college. 

 The institution offers subjects not courses. We don't offer courses either 

 long or short. That is the old college plan. We don't talk about courses 

 to students in the "University; we talk about subjects. We teach 80 in 

 agriculture, and a man may take 17 or 3 or all of them he cares to. The 

 point is this, you can come here and take anything you want to any time 

 when you are ready to take it. Whatever is taken and closed up. whether 

 one subject or five or ten or fifteen, he is given credit for in the Univer- 

 sity toward a diploma. Let's not talk of courses of study, let's talk of 

 subjects, and the more subjects he can study the bettei man he will be. 



It is a question of subjects. The number of subjects and the careful 

 way those subjects are taught is the point; we are quibbling over the 

 definition. 



We will live to see the day when such a thing as it being necessary 

 to have certain grades for an entrance to a university will not be needed. 

 We are going to see the day when the university will say to a man who 

 comes to its doors: "What do you want?" and he will say such and such 

 a study, and the university will answer, " Come and get it, and God bless 

 you "; then he will not be asked to jump over a gate six feet high or pull 

 himself through a hole two inches square; no bar between the man and 

 the subject. That is our thought in all this. There is no course, except 

 for the man himself and we suit him as well as we can. He can come 

 for six weeks, or two or three years or four years. If he takes a four 

 year course he gets a diploma. 



By the President. — The work tomorrow morning is stock judging. 

 We have the use of the stock judging room and Prof. Fraser will meet 

 you all there at 8:30, or, rather from 8:15 to 10 in the judging of dairy 

 cattle. There will be other professors there from outside states. This 

 is a very important subject, so be sure and be there if you can. The 

 regular session commences at 10 o'clock and the addresses will all be on 

 that same line of thought, the different breeds of cattle. .Tomorrow night 

 the meeting will be held in Physics Lecture Room, where we will have 

 stereopticon views, and I should like to have the room full. 



