The record-union., 1892-06-23


faculty who believe the work necessary
and practical, attended by students whose
self-respect is increased by the faithful
effort to prepare themselves for high use
fitness and honored by an alumni fully
qualified to take All honorable place in
LIES battles.
HOW SHALL LOVE FOR THE SCHOOL BE
CULTIVATED?
TO foster this spirit it might be well to
nave suitable uniforms for work, study
and dress arranged to designate efficiency
as workers, as students and rank i'm dis
cIphne- respectively; to have the faculty
accompany the older classes To the state
falr to take part in exhibiting stock and
products from the farm; 10 compete for
prizes III military drill and athletic games:
70 act as reporters and editors OF "A state
FAR daIly; 10 take par5 III meetings OF as
SocIations designed 10 foster special in
dustries; ard III general way 10 become
well acquainted and heartily identified
with the agricultural interests oil the
State. Let the diplomas be written in
PLAIN English, giving exact Standing in
each department, that the student might
ieel that every days work went TO make
up his record.
WHAT SHOULD BE EXPECTED FROM
ALUMNI?
While the usual share might be ex-
pected to fall by the wayside, every grad
uate should be able TO perform and di-
rect the work usually done on the farm:
to keep set OF bhpks showing condition
OF the business Ild results of each de-
partment. He should know enough of
law to keep out OF law, and enough Of the
science Of government 10 consider public
questions from standpoint Of broad in
teillgence. lie should be able to write 4
good letter or newspaper article: to pre-
nd u sng. .f.ra41 ,t,tr Il
thlnk ana express his thoughts ON his
ieet III way to impress others with his
IDEAS; TO draw up an intelligent pro-
granme OF farm management adapted to
the locality under consideration; to sur
yey farm or engineer a grade, ditch or
bridge; the nature and requirement Of an
imal and plant lie, pedigree, selection,
heredity and hybridlzatlon should be fa-
mlilar subjects. Principles of mechan-
les, use and care Of machinery, division
OF labor, cooperation, transportation,
etc., should be understood in their gem
eral principles.
Among those whose study had been
directed to Specialties we should hope 10
hnd men competent to begin work as
agricultural engineers, instructors in sim
liar schools, editors Of agricultural pa
pers. superintendent tornurseries, cream
cries, market-ga gardens, orchard and stock
farms.
Wherever located we should expect
them to display skill, thrift and broad in
telllgence. Nothing promotes such quail
tiles IN community more eifectually
than example, and nothing so greatly in
creases prosperity and the value of prop
erty as the general possession OF these
qualities.
PRACTICAL SKILL THE Controlling ELE-
MENT OF VALUES.
The Same soil and nIi,,,ota +l,o+ ,r;,,oe,
TO California its charm and value, not
Wlthstandlng its distance from centers of
population, existed fifty years ago. The
main difference in values has been caused
by the settlement Of people who build
lines OF transportation, develop indus
tries and seek markets. A similar ad-
vance along these lines is possible for the
next half century, and such institutions
as [ am considering may prove no insig-
fcant factors IN the result.
SUCH A SCHOOL WOULD ATTRACT DEsIRA-
BILE IMMIGRATIoN.
Especially in England, where wealth
has accumulated, primogeniture prevails
and population crowds, they seek honor
able careers for younger sons. No in
vestment is SO attractive as landed es-
tates, and no part of America has charms
equal to those Of California. Wherever
they hear of farmer skilled in his call
struct their sons properly, they are be-
ginning to send them for instruction.
They are quite willing to pay literally
for such care and teaching. and to euujp
their sons suitably when qualified to
manage for themselves. Such an in
stitution as we have under discussion,
if properly advertised abroad, especially
in England and Holland, would attract
the very most desirable class of immi-
gration-young people in position to COM
mand means, and who might be so edu-
Gated before investing their means as to
avoid the percentage of failures incident
to average immigration.
DEMAND FROM FARMERS.
Farmers have long felt the want of an
institution of high aims that should
educate toward the farm. They want to
see those fair acres that have grown dear
to them as the scenes of lite'S STRUGGLES
and triumphs, descend to those whose
skill shall give to them an added value.
Away down in their hearts is awakened
groundswell of feeling by the senti-
ment, THE farm for the children. and
the children for the farm" In the lit
erary and social societies OF students.
where they learn so much of practical
value in life from one another, the assoc
citation Of the classes we have lust named
should impart to the main body some OF
the refinement our people seek in foreign
travel, and some of the love OF country
life which is the legacy of those who have
lived near to nature.
SCOPE OF THE SCHOOL.
In scope our school should embrace the
farm, orchard, vineyard, dairy and ga1
den, with the trades usual in an agricult-
ural village. In discipline, drill and
manly bearing it should be the school OF
the soldier.
IN work it should be the school of the
apprentice; in study the school of the
scientist. It's foremen should be thor
Oughly practical specialists, each in his
own department, well qualified to in
struct in the best methods of securing de-
sired results, and to render labor attract
i've and efficient.
Its teachers should be of that noble
mold who forget self in their devotion to
science, and whose delight is to lead
young thinkers along the highways OF
accumulated wisdom and the dowery
billsides OF original investigation.
ADMINISTRATION.
It's executive department should be
skilled IN selecting those whose capacity.
training and motives qualify them for
the work assigned and equally skilled in
directing production along the lines best
fitted for instruction and profit, and in
placing products upon the market i'm n
- - ~ OSnO 1SSttI ilS lIIu cStdD-
lisb tue good name Of the school in the
marts OF trade. lie should be able to inn
press his faculty with the conviction that
the true teachers reward rests. not
in dollars or distinction, but that
the lettering steps of his old age shall be
made light 10y the consciousness that
many lives have been trained TO high
usefulness, and that his snowy hairs
may be crowned. as with wreath of
untading flowers, by the gratitude of
those who have been taught TO forget sci.
in their devotion to some great life-worlI
Their accumulated treasures shall en-
title them to letter of credit to be hon
ored as they journey in the land beyond
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