Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-03-19

packing and marketing, a systematic
plan of farm management, and very
much improved home life.
In my extensive experience with the
business, industrial and agricultural
activities of the State have found it
to be fact that large percentage of
the men who are most active in the
development of the natural resources
of the State of Texas are men who
have received their practical education
at the Agricultural and Mechanical
College of Texas, and it has led me
to understand more and more that it
is "a system of training for the de-
velopment of the inward powers to
meet outward conditions" in an active
life of usefulness.
The agricultural department is be-
ing recognized more and more as an
attractive, useful, profitable depart
ment, as will be seen by the follow
ing figures, which are very significant
at this time when 1t has been claimed
that the agricultural school is not
meeting it's expected position: In
1906-07 five hundred and fifteen stu
dents were enrolled. OF this number
lightweight, or II per cent, studied
agriculture. During the session Of
1911-12 eleven hundred and twenty
nine students were enrolled. Five hun
dred and ten, or As per cent, of the
total number studied agriculture.
These figures show that in the last
FIVE years the gain In this particular
department of this institution of learn
ing has been $40 per cent.
The real reason that an effort is
being made at this particular time to
relocate this great institution is that
its tremendous value in upbuildng and
maintaining the prestige Of some other
| institution has been recognized and is
the potent factor in the present agfta.
ton.
i feel that the vast majority of the
wise and thinking citizens OF this
great State are unquestionably for a
greater Agricultural and Mechanical
College at it's present location, where
millions of dollars have been expend-
ed already by the taxpayers Of Texas
in providing buildings and equipment
for carrying out the purposes for
which this institution was established
may be extended, are in favor of larger
appropriations, that its usefulness may
be further extended, reaching every
class of society, and that it should be
sustained at all times in its consti-
tuted authority that a stable, useful
institution already established may be
maintained, and in so doing a better
constructive work in Texas be further
developed.
In order that an institution which,
by practice as well as by precept, fits
men to perform justly, skillfully and
magnanimously all the offices, both
lprivate and public, of peace and war;
may be at all times maintained at this
valuable institution, it is the duty OF
every friend of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College to encourage more
liberal appropriations and also to en-
courage a measure to permanently
separate and divorce the Agricultural
and Mechanical College from the State
University that its usefulness may no
longer be crippled by these agitations
upon the part of designing persons
for its removal or for any other change
in the policy that has proven so emf
nently successful in developing the
usefulness of this institution under
such tremendous adverse conditions
in the past.
Nv solicitude for the welfare of this
great institution is prompted solely
by the knowledge that | have gained
lcf the great power that is being WELD
ed for good throughout this great
State by the seven thousand ex-stu
dents of the Agricultural and Mechan'
licaI College in the development and
upbuilding of our industrial and agri
cultural wealth and prosperity