The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-10-04
ADDRESS or GEN. GEORGE.
Oo,,xcred nj GtarkyiiIe, sFp''
.amd, 1879, Rt the Lay ,"S :"
Corner stone Of enc a.
d M. college

..;,oss which has brought us to- .
nv ~ one of serious Import-tne ~ q
gotho,', io, Of tho A. a. NJ, College, by lay 4
mo its cornerstone. !. ,>uo,>ooaa /
The enterprise il new, as u PROPOSES v
~ '~'o,bods of education, and seeks 10 a
no" new ends, il is well some explanation
sbonld DO made OF tho purposes "a '''' II
Trustees. -. ,oma of the '
7 shall, therefore, point out some ot 'U ~ /
diNieulties which are to De oVeio ',ii,, 10 t
success be attained, and CAL "V'ou !'a,na ~
an,,,a oe the objects which 1t Is proposeu "
Sn accumulated, and give some Oh sne
neaoons which Justify, and, in my luoB" {
t 5omond the liberal and generous
n,',,,'ort of the institution by the LeSlsi"-
ture and the public
FIRST NEED.
nho f,rst great need for this College Is,
49, !, shoil unite what has heretofore IN
Mississippi, at least, been separated h'SN
mental culture and manual labor
We nropose to yoke these two FORCES w.
,,otbor and send them out on the mission OF
building mp ississippl-edVHhchg hef
49, b;1b plane of material prosperity anu
;ntelIeetual improvement to which her hatu
rni rosources aud the genius Of her people
entitle her.
EDUCATION OF BRAIN AND HAND
We nropose to educate the brain and the
bond together: to mako the same human
Zinc hoth a thinker and II worker. AS
Goa has given each one of his children
hotb hands and brains, muscle and lntellect'
we propose in training this WORK, 10 loiio~
+bo order He has pointed out not to mar OF
counteract it. He gave us the physical anu
intellectual man united in one-@e sr Hlin u
to think and the body to LABOR l1S
the perfect being that God createo anu
nlaced on this earth to work out MS ueS'In!
W. ,,ronose to train and educate this being
in ali his faculties, powers ana enoo"l W.,
as he received them from his creator
,ot nrnnose TO make half meu-by
stimnlating the intellect into on abnormal
activity. and leaving the body to waste
and perish nor do we propose TO reverse
this by developing muscle unnaturaliy, anu
crushing ont the spiritual and intellectual
part of our bong,
We propose 10 make here no utG"inol5
snlen3id and dazzling intellectual prod
inies. with neither the capacity nor the WIN
to do the worlds work; nor, on the otneI
hand, do we propose to make lhacnliI9' u
men. mere automatons-to be "orhe" anN
moved by the will and intellect OF oInels'
We would endow each man with power u
conceive and determine what Ne suouio ~
and how il should be done, and win th'
ranacity and will to work out practically
With his own hands, his own conceptions
Within these halls and i'll these helds
a part of system of education, we propos
Tint study and manual labor shall go hah'
in hand, SO that the graduate OF thiS lieu
tuition may be able to know what 10 oo
how to do it, and then be able to DO 10
himself what he has judged should be pei
formed.
So much for the general aims Of this Col
lepe. But as neither all kinds OF lnahua
labor can be efficiently performed by Oh
map. nor the whole circle OF human Know
edge mastered by him, We propose 70 SeleS
from this work and this knowledge tlit
which the needs Of Mississippi most ue
mand shall be performed and possessed
her people, 49,,
The interest of Mississippi are aLino
exclusively agricultural Her climate, nc
soil. The worlds need for her crops, the al
sepce of mines, and quarrios, and seaport
the tastes and habits Of her people, all d'
monstrpte that tho foundation Of her pro-
perity lies in successful agriculture :,
The present condition of our peopl
their debts and embarrassments the pre-
ent condition of our agriculture our Wol
out and exhausted fields i'll the hill dlStflc'
the need of fertilization, our Ignorance
the practice Of farming not based on T.
natural fertility of the soil the dlsposlti'
of the people to remove to fresher al
never countries the prevalent desire
abandon agriculture for other pursuits; u
wish to abandon county life and try t
Drecalious, and uncertain, and over GRO"
ed business of cities and towns; the Bel
eral decay, the Rhlinkago OF all values; l
discontent and unrest Of the disappolnte
the immobility of despair, all admonlsh
that something must be done-that the
must be some change of our methods
the leading industry of the State
PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE.
Recopnizing the needs of the State, t
Trustees Of this institution propose 10 ia
tanpht here, in large degree that viii
pertains to scientific and practical agfic'
ture, including in this term hortlcult'
and stock raising, and to teach that Il
way that the graduate shall really be MT
to follow and practice agriculture IN al
branches This is our great ann lof
present In after years, when agricnit
shall have become moro prosperous
the needs of the State shall be more in
direction Of manufactures or other ind
trial callings, the teaching OF these VIII Il
more attention.
though looking mainly to the fitting OF
student for a SUCCESSFUL career IN Rgrlc
ture will not, as some enormously Supp'
be small in amount or ignOhle IN degree
AMOUNT OF EDUCATION FOR AGRIcULTu
There Is no way of preventing this.
labor constitutes the wealth and turnis
the comforts and Injuries of the world.
fact wealth il utterly valueless except as
actual or potential purchaser Of huI
labor or its results. That which can
had without human labor, however use
ia without commercial value. The air
breathe thouoh essential to life, yet becf
it is the free qift of nature, inexhaust
and free to all, is not thing which can
estimated ns wealth. But let q mode be
covered by which some substance may
human labor be infused into the
making it more wholesome, more hea
giving, and lot the air thus improved
capable of being confined to the sepa
use of him who has thus improved it.
then by this addition Of human labor 1t
comes wealth and In the object of the
sires and energies Of men.
II gold and diamonds were strewn
over the land like pebbles on the sea-sh
thew would become as worthless as
of wealth, as the pebbles themselves.
DUTY Az TO LABoREas
Since then all wealth-au the CONT
and Injuries Of life are the prOduc
human labor; and since q majority Of L
kind are and must always remain labol
it il the clear duty Of free govern
instituted by the people for the com
and equal good Of all, to 80 arrange
policies and administration forces,
this labor should be made of the hil
efficiency and productiveness to the lab
and entirely accordant with his phys
moral, intellectual and social well-b,
If there is stigma attached TO it, it
ba removed: if pleasure and improvei