Repository: UIHistories Project: Dedication - Ag Building [PAGE 20]

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IS Iti^'lior standing in the tOCial and 00080R11C lifO Of the farmer

in hit association with people engaged in othor pursuits* The iutolli^vttt farmer of the future will occupy tuch position M he carvea out for himtclf* The opportunity is hit, If he ret pec U himtelf and hie culling othert will reipect him and it* Today we have reached a point where we can tee that agriculture at the Univereity of Illinois it whnt we make it* If it it popular it will be hccaute the inttruction it of the beat* the inttructort enthusiastic in their work unci the mcthodt of nuch a nature at thall interett nnd inttruct intelligent ttudentt who u want to know*' and want to know by the quickett and bost routo% From one or two text hookt you now have many, from one or two inttructort you now count them by tho dotettt from one room shared with other interostt you have developed into an immense building, all your own* equipped with the bett apparatut for inttruction in the land. Agricultural education at the University of IUinoit hat left the past behind and mutt now press forward to the future% The methodt of today while perfect at compared to early beginning's will be catt atide and regarded at obsolete in the near future* We cannot ttand stilt, we must press forward for if we do not wo go backward* The great agricultural

interests of Illinois are watching YOU. New b u i l d i n g hotter equipments, improved facilitiet bring new responsibilities. While we have boon satisfied in the patt with moderate results,

or none at all, we now expect great things of you* You mutt measure up to a new standard and wo have faith that you will not be found wanting. 1 f tatitfactory retultt come from money witely expended there it no doubt but what IUinoit will take care of her own. Lot it be remembered that there it much truth in the taying from the book of books, u To t hose that have thall be given and from thote who have not thall be taken away." If you tucceod, much will be added, if you fail, much that you have will be taken away, Agricultural development in the past twenty»flve yeart hat come largely through wite logitlation. The establishment by the General Government of State Universities and State Kxporiment Stationt throughout the length and breadth of the land and the equipment, by the State, of huildinga, apparatut, and meant of inttruction has done more in the patt twenty*llve yeart to bring the tcience of agriculture to itt proper position than is