ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



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The old-time college with its four-year course of one kind of course 

 which all students took, was one thing; a modern university is another 

 thing. If a university teaches one course of study and all begin and all 

 graduate on the same day, they must all have had the same entrance con- 

 dition. That is the way with the old institutions of learning; each 

 teaching a single course, each requiring certain set rules for admitting 

 students. We have broken away from that. 



We have gone as far as we could go at present to the Leland Stanford 

 idea., What the Leland Stanford institution requires of a student 

 going there to study is: That he must be of a certain age, showing that 

 he is fitted to be away from home, and take his certain studies by him- 

 self. He must be able to read and speak and write the English language. 

 What else? Simply that he should be a decent American citizen and want 

 to learn something. That is not saying that every class is open to those 

 students. He can go to work and study certain of these studies that is 

 necessary to him. 



If a boy is 16 years old and is a decent sort of a fellow, he can come to 

 the University of Illinois and take all these things that he is able to 

 study. If he has had a whole lot of schooling, he can have everything 

 we have; if only a little, he can take some of them. He will first learn 

 about milk and the Babcock test and standardizing milk and study con- 

 tamination of milk and the different things about milk that it is neces- 

 sary for him to learn. He does not need to know Greek to enter that de- 

 partment. If that kind of boy comes along, we will put him in the study 

 of milk. 



If another boy comes along who has had a whole lot of experience in 

 some of these matters; he has studied them a good deal and wants to study 

 about the operation of 'a dairy farm, that boy can come and do so. 



Another man says: "I would like to study dairy bacteriology." I 

 ask him, "Do you know what bacteria are?" "No." "Every study any 

 botany?" "No." "Any zoology?" "No." "Any living things and how 

 they do?" "No." I should tell him he would have to study other things 

 besides bacteriology and have to take some other work first, and will 



