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“The Wisest Farmer I Ever Knew” 
(Continued from page 35) 
that you have lived on this hill for 
four years and don’t know whether 
there are any good apples in the col¬ 
lege orchards?” 
“Practical Agriculture” in those 
days included almost everything con¬ 
nected with the farm and farm life, 
and then some, and Professor Roberts 
did not hesitate to go further afield 
if it seemed necessary or desirable by 
digressing to point a moral or adorn 
a tale. As for instance, when em¬ 
phasizing the necessity for the use 
£xT Soun< * P rac tical judgment he said, 
Now boys, I hope you will all get 
married as soon as possible after you 
graduate, but when you go to pick 
out a girl, don’t let your affections get 
too much the better of your judgment 
and above all don’t take one with 
too thin lips, she is apt to have an 
uncertain temper.” 
The modern bespectacled Ph.D. pro¬ 
fessor^ with his highly specialized, 
scientifically classified and carefully 
outlined course in Agronomy, Thremma¬ 
tology, Ecology or what not would look 
with consternation if not contempt 
upon the subject matter of that course 
m Practical Agriculture and its ar¬ 
rangement, and I would not for an in¬ 
stant give the impression that the 
teaching of agriculture has not been 
vastly improved in the last forty years 
But there went out from Professor 
Roberts’ teaching in the “early eigh¬ 
ties a score or more of young men who 
have been more or less successful in 
many branches of agriculture and farm 
life, and. who count not the least of 
what their college training gave them, 
the hours spent in that little room in 
Morrill Hall and in the barns and fields 
of the “old” college farm with Profes¬ 
sor Roberts. 
One trait in Professor Roberts has 
always been particularly pleasing to 
me - Those .who have read his books 
and heard him in the classroom and on 
the. lecture platform, know that in the 
mam his language was straightfor- 
ward, simple and direct, but occasion- 
ally he liked to let his fancy run free 
and his language assume a more flow¬ 
ery form. My note book records in one 
of the very first lectures that “Culti¬ 
vation is the art of using the plow and 
harrow to so tickle the minute particles 
of soil, that the myriad mouths that 
have stored up the fertility of ages are 
set wide agape while the tiny rootlets 
filch from their stony teeth the golden 
setting.” 
While we honor Professor Roberts as 
a pioneer in agricultural education, a 
leader in agricultural progress and as 
a successful practical farmer; it is as' 
a man that we of the early eighties 
now render our chief homage to him 
on the accomplishment of ninety years 
of well spent life. A man of deeply 
religious nature, inflexible moral stand¬ 
ards,. hard working and thrifty in 
practical affairs, with a cheerful opti¬ 
mism, ever ready to help others; we 
recognize in him the ideal type of 
American citizenship and trust that he 
may long enjoy Shakespeare’s ideal, 
“My age is as a lusty winter 
Frosty but kindly.” 
As my own personal tribute there is 
no man except my own father for whom 
I have a more sincere affection than for 
Isaac Phillips Roberts. 
A Gatherer of Friends 
By W. H. Jordan 
Formerly Director of the New York State 
Experimental Station, Geneva, N. Y. 
I T is eminently fitting that those of 
us who had personal contact with 
Professor I. P. Roberts in his days of 
activity should place on record an ap¬ 
preciation of the man and the great 
service, he rendered to agriculture. 
His influence as a man was notable. 
He had a sound philosophy of life, 
gained through a keen insight into men 
and affairs. We spoke of him as a 
philosopher. He was intensely human 
in his attitude toward young men and 
his counsel to them helped to direct 
their lives to the highest purposes. 
His influence upon the agriculture 
of New York was uplifting. As one 
of the pioneers in agricultural edu¬ 
cation in the United States he labored 
under great difficulties, but he did much 
to make the rural people understand 
what were, their needs in education, 
and both in public sentiment and in 
his work at Cornell as a teacher he 
laid foundations upon which other men 
have built. 
The young men who knew him as a 
teacher have not ceased to regard him 
with affection and the strong friend¬ 
ships which he garnered unto himself 
from among his associates in the agri¬ 
cultural field and from all who knew 
him intimately, have been abiding. 
* * * * 
An Everlasting Influence 
By J. L. Hills 
Dean of the College of Agriculture, University 
of Vermont 
D EAN ROBERTS, dean of deans 
in agriculture, by virtue of your 
green old age and of the firm founda¬ 
tions you laid during the days of your 
strength^—we, who are of the genera¬ 
tion which has succeeded yours, who 
have tried to walk in your footsteps 
and to follow the path you blazoned, 
salute you on the attainment of your 
ninetieth birthday. Your contribution 
to the training of the American coun¬ 
try lad, to the creation of one of the 
strongest land-grant colleges in the 
country, to the upbuilding of American 
agriculture, has been notable. It will 
not live 90 nor 90 times 90 years, 
but from everlasting to everlasting in- 
its fructifying influence. 
We trust that you may be spared 
in health and vigor for years to 
come, and we rejoice in the realization 
of the fact, that though in the fulness 
of time your mortal body will return 
to the earth as it was, your soul will 
go marching on, 
* * * * 
Agricultural Teaching in the 
Old Days 
By W. A. Henry 
Formerly Dean of the College of Agriculture, 
University of Wisconsin 
M EASURED by results Cornell Un¬ 
iversity is the world’s greatest 
pioneer in modern education. That 
great statesman and educator, Andrew 
D. White, its first president, brought up 
a classical culturist in the strictest 
sense, was big enough and broad 
enough to see the sciences were about 
to revolutionize the world’s educa¬ 
tional activities. Instead of fighting 
the movement as so many other edu¬ 
cators did, he accepted the situation 
and gave science its proper place in 
the new institution of which he was 
president, and so Cornell University be¬ 
gan its existence under unusually aus¬ 
picious conditions. 
In his efforts to get the best. Doctor 
White reached across the Atlantic and 
secured Doctor James Law, head of the 
Veterinary Department, a most worthy 
satisfactory selection as all old agri¬ 
cultural students will agree. His choice 
of a foreigner as Professor of Agri¬ 
culture was unsatisfactory and Vice 
President Russell, acting as President, 
began a search for another to teach 
agriculture and operate the college 
farm. Professor W. A. Anthony of the 
P,y. slcs department told President 
White that he knew of a man at the 
Iowa Agricultural College, from which 
he, Anthony, had come, that could at 
least keep the University farm fields 
fairly free from weeds, and so I. P. 
Roberts became Professor of Agricul¬ 
ture at Cornell University and there¬ 
after weeds were less in evidence. 
I was a student at Cornell during the 
dark days, 1876-1880, which followed 
its brilliant beginning under the mas¬ 
terful management of President White, 
undoubtedly the ablest, broadest-minded 
educator America has so far produced. 
The pinch of poverty was evident on 
every hand while I was a student, but 
the trustees and president never 
flinched or deviated from their high 
purpose. Dark Days? You may get 
some conception of the situation when 
you learn that more than once some 
of the trustees gave their individual 
checks toward meeting the winter’s 
fuel bill. 
In those days there were practically 
no text , books on agriculture, and the 
instructor was compelled to carry oh 
as best he could. And here was where 
