Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-08-05
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taking investigators in our own and
other lands. This science has to deal
with nature and her forces in mani
fold and ever-varying forms. 1t has to
contend against the prejudices of the
class for whose benefit these schools
were established, class whose
conservatism and repugnance to
chapge-oftentimes to progress-is
engendered of it's isolation, and whose
distrust has been justly aroused by
the exaggerated pretensions of the
founders of the science. The supply
of these schools has been in excess of
the demand. The agricultural public
is not as yet ready to receive the edu-
cation they Offer. Above all, agricul.
ture is at present abnormally depressed
and holds out but few inducements to
young men of energy and talents. 1t
requires capital and offers no hope of
large and speedy returns, the rewards
demanded by our times. Such diff
culties as these have to be met and
overcome. 1t is no wonder, then, that
the success Of the agricultural college,
is, as yet, thing of the future. But
unless all history is false and
man proves recreant to himself, this
| success will be attained in the not
distant future. Our generation will
witness it, perhaps the next decade.
Every failure but beacons more clearly
the way to the goal. Freely acknowl-
| edging the paramount importance Of
| agriculture to the well-being of the
| state, nearly every civilized nation is
making haste to extend towards it a
helping hand by establishing such
schools. Our country has, for
his purpose, granted in trust to the
states almost princely domains. This
building is one of the best evidences
of the spirit in which you, gentlemen
of the trustees, have received Tennes-
sees quota of the grant. By such eff
| forts among others the final success of
! these schools is assured. This new
to the state, and the country at large,
of your firm determination to leave
nothing on your part undone to make
this school conform to the true intent
of the act which created it. And it is
more than this, it is an incentive to
our faculty, for it assures US Of your
hearty cooperation and support. 1t
| requires Of US more earnest
efforts in the future in order
that we may justify your conf
| dence and advance the standards of
scholarship in these walls. A few
more such improvements, and we will
have no longer right to complain of in
sufficient buildings or appliances. l,
for one, feel most deeply this increased
responsibility, but in justice to my
self and to my colleagues, L must beg
you to consider this building as simply
a means to the end-not as
the end itself-.o expect no great
and sudden accessions to the
ranks of our agricultural students.
Such accessions can only be expected
after years of untiring effDrt and of
multiplied labors on our part, of wise
and liberal expenditure on yours.
With these, such accessions will come,
and with them success, full and COM
plete, as surely as the sui will continue
TO rise from behind yonder distant
rampant OF hills.
AT the conclusion of Prof. Nc
Bryde's remarks, Col. 8. Fl. Lockett,
professor of applied mathematics, wss
called for, and in the course of few
felicitous remarks said that he would
decline making a regular speech un-
til the completion of the Mechanics
Hall.
Mr. +. A. r. Scott, chairman Of the
committee of the board of trustees on
building and grounds, then deposited
a box containing copies OF each
newspaper at present published
in Knoxville, "The Early
History of the University of Tennes.
see," by Col Moses White, copy of
the laws of the University, the last
catalogue, ETC., after which Mr.. T. w.
Flenniken, of the firm of T. w. & E..
H. H.Flenniken, the contractors for the
erection of the building, proceeded to
enclose it. After benediction pro-
nounced By Rev. Mr.. Rankin the
company dispersed, evidently much
pleased with the very appropriate cer-
, emonies.