MINUTES OF TEE BOARD OF TRUSTEEES  -  May 31, 1910



the farmers a desire for agricultural education. The Agricultural College has

gotten little or nothing from the station in the instruction of its matriculates

or in the inspirati n which comes from contact with living agricultural specialists.

The Agricultural College has not gotten from the establishment and endowment of

this Department under the hatch Act what the Federal Government, the Commonwealth

and the University had a right to expect.  I give you a solemn warning now and

here in this my last official utterance as President, that you cannot afford Longer

to neglect this matter and allow things to drift and crystallize apart as they have

been doing.    The ELxeriment Station is by law not a self-contained unit, but an

integral and essential department of the Agricultural College, and should bear a

large part in its up-building and development, instead of standing apart in a

quasi-benevolent attitude. Measures for more effective co-operation are, I under-

stand, under consideration from which let us hope substantial results may follow.


Be it remembered that land-grant colleges received their original endowment from

Congress with the express purpose and intention that they should build up strong

colleges of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. In the latter, as interpreted by

the different phases of engineering, we have achieved our most marked success. Our

graduates in engineering have been in demand for years.   The high grade of work
                          (or)
which they have been able are capable of doing places them in the first rank of

engineers in America.

     While our scientists and classical scholars have stood well to the front and

take rank as the best, their numbers are and have been relatively small, the en-

gineers in number leading the way. Of the two, viz: The College of Science and

the College of Liberal Arts, the former is the better equipped for work. In

Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Biology and associated subjects it is

and has been strong, but its courses of study do not attract matriculates for the

degree.   The B. S. degree is not sought as it should be and yet graduates in

science are in great demand all over the country. The A. B. course, though the