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quently did, without the preliminary discipline necessary, it was 
found that studies embracing so narrow a range were not sufficient 
to fit them for any position in life. It made one-sided men, in¬ 
stead of developing that symmetrical manhood which results from 
a wider range of studies. 
The best zoologist could not be made by studying zoology 
alone. Either he uiust first have received disciplinary training, 
or else, around this as a center, other studies must be grouped 
that will give greater breadth to his intellectual powers. Harvard 
has, hence, done wisely in changing her course. Students who 
are candidates for degrees are now required to take collateral 
studies with the single science that is the object of their pursuit. 
The purely technical studies of any agricultural college in 
the country can be compeleted in a single year, if a student 
has previously had a thorough training in the elements—not rudi¬ 
ments merely—of science. Yet, nearly all of them have a full four 
years course. Why is this ? Simply because the students go to 
these colleges without training necessary to a full comprehension 
of the technical studies, and that training must be given them there. 
I have discussed the question only from a utilitarian point of 
view, endeavoring to show that training and discipline on the part 
of the student are necessary, before he can receive the benefit that 
technical education is intended to impart. 
The agricultural, and other technical colleges have endeavored 
to meet this necessity, by combining general with technical in¬ 
struction. They have done well doubtless, situated as they are, 
to make this combination. But it has forced them to make their 
scientific training less thorough than it otherwise might have been. 
The good every man receives from education, aside* from its 
merely pra6tical bearing, and the duty of men to educate their 
children, that they may gain complete control of their mental 
powers, and be raised to the highest manhood, are questions that 
have been often discussed, and need not take our time to-night. 
I believe in such education, and wish more of the youth of this 
state might be placed where they could receive it. 
President White of the Cornell University has well said, 
“ make your son a master farmer or master mechanic ; but make 
him also a master man.” Iam a firm believer in industrial edu- 
