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tors. The moment we doubled our Instructors we doubled our students, and so 
it will be everywhere. These students know what they want better than we do. 
For years we temporized with the matter because we thought if we bad few- 
student^ we only needed a few instructors, it is as much trouble to teach one 
as a hundred. When I was a student of agriculture there was wry little litera- 
ture and no bulletins, if you bad had 20 professors of agriculture twenty years 
ago there would have been, apparently, a great waste i f money, and yet we 
would have got along much faster if we bad been able t-> increase our numbers 
earlier. I read a report on household science the other day. written by a body 
of intelligent women, who undertook to say that household scienee some day 
would be a great subject in universities, but that no subject could be attempted 
by a great university until it could go in with all the dignity of any other sub- 
ject and be as well taught as any other subject, and I said it would never get 
into the university then. Agriculture would never have gotten into any uni- 
versity or college if it had not begun until it was perfected. I am of the 
opinion that it is in the universities of to-day that agriculture has the best 
opportunity, because the theory of the university is that every department in it 
may offer all the courses that the genius of its men will permit, that the depart- 
ment may do just as much in the way of expansion and in the way of courses 
as the money at its command will make possible. The theory of the college is, 
on the other hand, that there is a set course, and when the course is full there 
is no chance for expansion. That is likely to be true of the independent agri- 
cultural college. As a rule colleges have set courses, and as a rule universities 
do not. Until agriculture can have in the colleges of agriculture that are dis- 
tinct from universities the same opportunity for extension or subdivision as 
there is in universities generally it will be hampered in its development. I 
believe that every institution, whether a university or college of agriculture, 
should give the agricultural department every opportunity to divide and sub- 
divide, and supply it with plenty of men and money. In the agricultural col- 
leges there must be almost unlimited election in agriculture, because such tech- 
nical work must be elective. Agriculture, in order to prosper, must have almost 
unlimited means, unlimited numbers of men. and unlimited privileges. 
W. M. Hays, of Minnesota. You say you divide the work about half and half. 
How do you arrange this? 
Mr. Davenport. If a man graduates from our university be takes certain pre- 
scribed studies. Those are arranged so that half are agriculture and the other 
half not agriculture. He has about one-fifth of his time to use as he pleases. 
He can make it a little more than half technical, or he can make it exactly half 
technical. We distribute the technical from the first year until the last. The 
student takes some agriculture from the first. Our courses are so arranged that 
if the student follows our advice he begins agriculture, science, and literature 
when he enters the university. 
Mr. Bailey. There is a point of view which I would like to suggest, which I 
think marks a wide difference between the practice of the agricultural college 
of the University of Illinois and some of the other institutions of similar grade, 
and that is whether some of these courses, looked upon as more directly pro- 
fessional, are not fitting men for rather narrowly specialized vocations in life, 
whereas others of us are teaching broad agricultural courses, which are intended 
to fit a man for the undertaking of the larger affairs of agriculture and of 
country living. In our own college of agriculture we do not expect to fit a man 
for the technical work of stock judging, or the technical work of corn breeding, 
so much as we do to educate the man and to fit him to be a strong and resource- 
ful man and able to take up any particular kind of work be wishes to later in 
life. 
