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Beginning Struggle for Industrial Education 5 In that year a number of men residing in the city of New York and vicinity endeavored to persuade the legislature to endow an agricultural college and to locate it near the metropolis* A committee on agriculture of the New York assembly in a report on the project acknowledged that it was aware "that the establishment of an agricultural college and experimental farm has been often talked of, and we suppose may be consonant to the views of many distinguished individuals, and may have become a favorite scheme with a respectable class of farmers in the State, fH The committee managed, however, as buildings and farms cost so much more than words, to avoid the expense which would follow upon granting the request by adroitly noting " t h a t it partakes too much of a local and special nature.' 1 Therefore, the society in 1847 passed a resolution recommending to the consideration of the legislature the propriety of making reasonable appropriations for the establishment of agricultural schools and colleges connected with experimental farms. In the discussion that followed, Mr. Chandler of New York called attention to the fact that men were then sending their sons to Scotland to get the practical education that could be obtained at home in an institution such as that contemplated by the resolution. From 1848 on, speakers before the New York agricultural society began to outline in more or less detail their ideas as to the kind of an agricultural school or college that they would like to see organized and established. The notion had so far progressed as to be admitted into the circle of respectable proposals; the question now was how to express it practically in bricks and mortar, land and men. Rev. Samuel Luckey was one of the pioneers who gave freely of time and thought to the subject. He advocated schools, not colleges, and with the object of saving expense, he advised that they be located near seminaries though in no way connected with them. Others advocated the establishment of departments for the teaching of agriculture in the colleges already organized. Still others stood stanch for new colleges, organized for the express purpose of teaching farmers. 4 Ibid., 7: p. xxm.
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