The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-06-28
Agricultural Education.

That very interesting philosopher, Mr.. Francis
Cation, author of : Hereditary Genius,' IN \
recent essay has asserted that the men Of this day
find themselves constantly called upon 10 perform
tasks for which they are united In 4 word,
our social requirements are beyond our personal
attainments.
Among the numerous contTiyanCes by which
the age is epdeayoring 70 supply the deficiency
asserted by Mr.. Galton-to tt men for the re-
quirements Of life-are the agricultural college
and scientific school but as these contriVances
are ct present organized neither Is satisfactory or
sufficient 10 meet its full design. One can easily
foresee, saws a writer in the World, that if the
present differentiation between literary training
and scientific training. between the university and
the agricultural college and scientific school, is u
20 on, the time viii soon come when the university
with a curriculum IN which scientific training rs
made subsidiary to literary training will DC an
tagOnized by the university with a curriculum in
which literary training would be suboldinated to
scientific training.
1t may be too early to pronounce upon the
form which the antagOnism 10 be easily traced az
the present moment viii take in the future; but
that such a person as Professor Gilman, formerly
of the Sheffield Scientific School, now President OF
the University of California, should have thrown
himself into the new movement with such impetus
that he was in favor of the separation of the
school from the college, is proof that the present
mode OF existence will not long last. It Is not
impossible that in the future the great systems OF
education may be carried on simultaneously-the
one philosophical and literary end the other
scientific and technical
The report of the Massachusetts Agricultural
College for 1872, has been the inspiration of these
remarks. 1t is located at Amherst, the seat OF
the well-known college. Between the two insti-
tutions there has been only the most pleasant
rivalry. The course of study in the Agricultural
College is limited to four years. Tuition and
board cost about $3.50 u year. The report states
that the sons of farmers-for only those with
experience make good students-can pass through
the college for $1,000. The President with just
pride points to the records made by two or three
Of his graduates in farming and invention.
The determined front exhibited by the farmers
of the West towards the railroad companies, as
well as the belief, spreading with great rapidity,
that science is absolutely necessary to the proper
following of agriculture, bespeaks a great future
for the agricultural college in the improved form
which in no long time it sill be expected to put
on. If the corporations guiding the agricultural
colleges would look for support more to their
patrons and less to the results of the sales OF
public lands; if they would begin to improve
their institutions and cease to " lobby " for
- pap which, insuring to their benefit, falls as
a heavy burden on the community, the immediate
future of the agricultural colleges would look
much brighter.