The M. A. C. RECORD MICHIGAN STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. V O L. IT,. L A N S I N G. MICHIGAN, T U E S D A Y, M A R CH 190S. \'( THE FINANCIAL VALUE OF EDUCATION. Extracts from an Address by James H. Eckels, President of the Commercial National Bank, of Chicago, Given Before the National Educa tional Association at Los Angeles, July, J907. " I hesitated a good deal, beiftg engaged in the sordid occupation of handling dollars and cents, as to whether or no I should he doing the cause of education anv particu lar good by Irving to demonstrate that in this dav and generation there financial value in being is some somewhat, learned in the books of art and science and agriculture. 1 am not sure but today when public sentiment is such that financial suc cess i.s considered a crime and the accumulation of money something that if it becomes to be abhorred, known that men can become richer and more industrious and more sav ing because thev are educated, pub lic sentiment will put the public school, and the high school, and the college in the same class with other corporations, and that there will be serious objection is made for education which enables men to live well, make a fair appear ance, now and then give something to a public charity or a public edu cational institution, and leave some thing for their children. if provision from from financial the books that which sentiment as " If it be true that such is the regards the public result of undertakings, why might it not well be argued that the thing which enabled a man to make two blades of grass grow where but one heretofore had grown, which enabled him to apply an acquired knowledge of chemistrv, obtained in the schools, which brought about greater results in the arts and sciences, which enables him to know more of mining and metallurgy and all the other things that made it possible to take greater wealth from the earth ; why. I sav, could it not well be assumed that the encouragement of such a thing resulted only in harm instead of in g o o d: Or, in other words, that when educators had de parted in the earlier period of educational under takings developed simply the schol astic side of man, and gave instead the, industrial and commercial edu cation, that they worked out harm instead of good to the community r " T h is country within the last t wo decades has seen a progress so won derful that not alone our own peo ple but the peoples of other nations have stood in amazement at it. There has been great development in transportation, in the mining industry, in agricultural pur suits, in t he marvelous advance of manufacturing, in the still more wonderful advance in scientific un dertakings, not the least cause of those which has been schools and colleges over which you, gentlemen, preside, has come a prac tical knowledge of the things which are necessary for the development (Continued on page 2.) that from lines of A L U M NI E. C Place is now located at Glennwood Springs, Colorado, as city editor of '/lit /lost, the leading paper of that citj . 'pfj D O. Stavtoti '06 is now with the Indianapolis Water Go. at In dianapolis, lnd. I lis address is 1 1 1 West North street^ At the annual content for new members at the SororiaiJ Society Miss Florence Harlow won firs! place and M i s- Mvrtlc M \ res. sec ond. Mr. C. L. Allen. " 1 1, W i l li I i a- been scriou-l\ ill with typhoid fever rapidly. is reported as improving His mother and brother of -Tacoma. \\ ashington. arrived here Suiidax . 11. O. Stabler, representative from the I '. S. Forest Service, will be. here this week to give the senior forestry students special practice in United States Forest Reserve Reg ulations: last Saturda\ evening, was .1 The' freshman oratorical contest, held by the Columbian Literary So ciety very close contest. honor- ami a societ) pin was won by I.. P. Walker, second place -by W. I!. ()rr. third place by L. G. K u r t /. First We are \ e rv sorry to announce the death of A i r s. R. M. Agnew . which occurred at the Dcaconc-- Hospital at Toledo. ()hio. F e b. £9," resulting from a second operation for appendicitis. Mrs. Agnew will be remembered as Miss Grace Wag ner, with \y\. T wo daughters^ Eleanor May,' aged 3 years, and Helen Grace, aged 3 months, arc left motherless. Mr. A g n cw has the sympathy of the R E C O RD and the College. l ie was graduated with the class of '00. -V few years ago at a meeting rd Science teachers held at Rochester. New \ ork. J o hn M. Spencer, one of the teachers of extension work in agriculture at Cornell University, said: " We have introduced agri school-, culture into the common introduced under but it has been another Study." name, " N a t u re Recently a cOpj of an address b\ Eugene Davenport, Dean of the College of Agriculture of the Uni versity of Illinois has been handed to us. and in it he says : •• W h en 1 -peak of teaching agriculture in our high schools. I mean Agriculture, I do not mean Nature study, nor do 1 mean that some sort of pedagogi cal ,kink should be given to chemis try or botany or even geographx and arithmetic. Let these arts and sciences be taught their own standpoint, with as direct application to as many affairs of life as possible ; but let chemistry continue to he chemistry ; let agriculture introduce new matter into the schools and with it a new point of view." from STATE COLLECE CHAMPIONS TOP ROW: I.OWKK Row : H:mi> l-ln w HI B. VOKKKR, 'Id KliACK I'EHliV, S p. MII.DKKi* K K K ^ r S O N. 'Ill \. Wi REPORTER r ' K A Z KK SUBSCRIPTION 50 CENTS PER YEAR Remit by I'- 0; Money Order, Draft or Registered Letter. Do not send stamps. Address nil subscriptions and advertising matter to the College Secretary, East Urn-' sing, Mich. Address ail contributions; to i be Managing Editor. Business Office with Lawrence & Van Buren Printing »'<>.. (22 Ottawa St. East, Lansing, Mich. Entered as second-class mail matter at fjansing, Mich. ICESDAl'. MARCH / ;. igoi' The Financial Value of Education. i ('ontinu»'- e given in the College Armors' Saturday evening by the College dramatic classes. T he forestry department has just installed a small s aw mill at the treating plant. It was donated by the De Looch Mill Manufacturing Co... of Bridgeport, Alabama. T he second annual banquet of the N ew England M. A. C. Alumni Association w as held at Boston, March 6. President E d w a r ds of Rhode Island, President Butterfield of Massachusetts were the principal speakers. We hope to give a more complete account next week. language department Dr.and M r s. Blaisdell entertained the members of the English and Modern last Saturday evening. Covers were laid for fourteen. Messrs. T o m p kins, Cullom and Stevens, M r s. Peppard and Miss Gilchrist carried off prizes of portraits for recogniz ing the largest number of authors' pictures, for writing the best limer ick, and for making the largest list of famous names beginning with the letter D. ESTABLISHMENT OF CO OPERATIVE BREEDING ASSOCIATIONS. I m p r o v e m e nt of M i c h i g an C a t t l e. Michigan live stock, like thai of in g r e at In a d d i t i on of of s o me t y p e, c a t t le In s o me i n f u s i on of g o od in o t h e rs i m p r o v e m e n t. s e n d) a n i m a l s, i n s t a n c es r e s u lt s e v e r al b r e e d s. t h at h ut t he i n d i s c r i m i n a te a d m i x t u re of O w i ng t wo or o ne in A m e r i ca n e ed to t he a nd H o c ks c r o s s - b r e d. t he p r e s e n t i ng a d a p t a b i l i ty t he a b l o o d, it is t he o u t c o me of t he to p er are- c o m t h em t he It is a fact is n ot m a ny o t h er s t a t e s, is of p u r e b r ed s t u d s, h e r ds t h e re p re a g r e at m a in g r a de a nd t h r ee Lasl n a m ed c l a s s es a w i de r a n ge of a nd q u a l i t y. i n f e r i or a n i m a ls a re t he l a ck w h i te t he h l o od of f a ct t he c e nt of p e d i g r e e d, m on s t o c ks c o u ld n ot w i th - r e g i s t e r ed o n es b e c a u se of t o t a l ly i n a d e q u a te s u p p l y; a l so t h at to p u r c h a se in a p o s i t i on f i n a n c i a l ly f o u n d a t i on h e r ds of r e g i s t e r ed a n i m a ls to r e p l a ce all t he c o m m on o n es l ie m av no m a t t er l a r ge t he hi- p e r c e n t a ge of s t o ck o w n e rs is c o n t he o n ly " p r a c t i c a b le m e t h od c e r n e d, to i m p r o v e m e nt of i- t h em t h r o u gh u p - g r a d i n g, a i m p r o v i ng s i r e s. d e s i r o us f ar s y s t em t h r o u gh t he r e p l a ce t he u se of g o od t he o w n e rs of t he o r d i n a r\ o p en of to do s o. f a r m er h ow So as in to by t he h as t he of u n d e r t a ke d e p a r t m e nt s t a le e n d e a v o r i ng i m p o r t a n ce t h is m e t h od a nd R e a l i z i ng t he p r a c t i c a b i l i ty b e en a g r i c u l t u r al t he S t a te B o a rd of a u t h o r i z ed s p e c i al A g r i c u l t u re w o rk to s t i m u l a te t he i m p r o v e m e nt of h o r s e s, c a t t l e, s h e e p, a nd s w i n e. a l o ng c a t t le b r e e d i ng l i no w as up M a r ch 1st w i th nf B r o o k l y n, M i c h ., a c t i ng as a g e nt t he w o rk f a r m er a nd h as b r o u g ht p e r f e c t i on a d v o c a t ed u p - g r a d i ng p a r t m e nt a nd o u t l i n ed K x p e r i m e nt T he w o rk t a k en \ V. F. R a v e n, f i e ld f or p r a c t i c al b e c a u s e, s u c c e s s f ul s t o c k m a n, he a nd s t a te of of s y s t em d e t he in M i c h i g an S t a t i on B u l l e t i n, N o. M r. R a v en w as c h o s en to a h i gh t he i m p r o v ed t he s a me h is o wn t h r o u gh h e rd i>v as a t he T he f o r m ed b r e e d e rs first w e ek In t h is c a se t he o w n t h em t he in t h is w o rk t he to l y o S. !-!<> c o ws t he field i n d i v i d e x i m be- a s to p l a n, d e v e l op u n i ty <>t t he c o m m u n i t y, a nd o r a s s o c i a c o - o p e r a t i ve cattle- in of In e a rn i ng on a g e n1 g o es d i r e c t ly u a ls of a c o m m t m i tv w h i ch h as t o, u n d e r t a ke p r e s s ed a d e s i re of b r e e d i n g; p r o v ed m e t h o ds i n d i v i d u a l s, b ut n ot o n ly m e e ts in o r d er as w e ll s e m b l es p r e s e nt i n t e r e st g a n i ze U n p r o v ed t i o n s. first b r e e d e r s' a s s o c i a t i on w as l a c k s on c o u n t v. M a r c h. e rs of o r g a n i z e d. H i t h e r to t he v h a ve b e en u s i ng g r a de b u l ls w h i ch a re to be s u p e r s e d ed by t he p e d i g r e ed o n e s. m en a re c r e a m e ry p a t r o n s, a nd h a ve t h r ee d e c i d ed j e r s ev b u l l s. to s e c u re t he a s s o c i a t i on w i ll T he m e m b e rs of i d ea d i v i de c o ws t he b e i ng t wo y e a r s, w h en of e a ch g r o up f or t h ey w i ll t he s a me t h i ng d o ne a g a in at t he e nd of o w n f o ur y e a r s. p r o v i d ed e rs of s a m e- w i th b r e ed in t he c a se of t h is w ay t h e se c a t t le w i ll be p u r e - b r ed f or s ix y e a rs h e n c e, u n l e ss l o ss or a c c i d e n t. i n to to u se o ne b u ll on t h r ee g r o u p s, e x c h a n g ed s i r es of h a ve c a se t h is a nd t he t he t he be In In A s e c o nd a s s o c i a t i on of b r e e d e rs is a b o ut to be f o r m ed c o m m u n i ty b u l ls a re to be u s e d. in an a d j a c e nt in w h i ch f o ur G u e r n s ey The M. A. C. RECORD. A V E R A GE men are as colorless as average clothes. College men are *^~ their togs have to be outside the average- College Brand Clothes are. Just a bit more dash to em, a great sight more style the precisely right amount of fit. Though exclusive their price isn't enough to exclude you from wearing 'em. For the young man and the " like-to-be-young." -and O'CONNOR, Clothier. Sole A g e n ts for College Clothes. In a d d i t i on to t he a s s o c i a t i o ns f o r m a t i on of i n d i v i d u al s e c u r i ng s t r o ng t h r o u gh s i r e s. A c o - o p e r a t i ve b r e e d e rs a re b e i ng a s s i s t ed in m a k i ng a s t a rt t o w a rd b e t t er m e t h o ds of b r e e d i n g, a nd u s i ng g o od e f f o rt to e s t a b l i sh u n i ty is b e i ng p ut f o r th of p u r p o se so c o m m u n i ty e a ch t h at c o - o p e r a t i on m ay b e c o me p o s s i b le a nd b e l i ne of c o me n o t ed f or s o me s p e c i f ic p r o d u c t i on r a t h er t h an a g r e at v a r i e ty of m e d i o c re a n i m a l s. t he p a r t i c u l ar s e c t i on in T he S t a te L i ve S t o ck a nd a re t he v a r i o us l e n d i ng B r e e d e rs b r e ed v a l u a b le A s s o c i a t i on a s s o c i a t i o ns a s s i s t a n ce in t he w o r k. W h en t he d o n k ey s aw t he z e b ra He b e g an to s w i t ch h is t a i l, '• W e l l, I n e v e r ," w as h is c o m m e n t, " H e r e 's a m u le t h a t 's b e en to j a i l ." —E x. 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