Excerpt from A National College of Agriculture for the Transvaal

A well-endowed College of Agriculture would attract students from oversea, tourists, and scientists, for we have a wealth of material awaiting investigation and inspectio'n, and a climate unrivalled in the whole world. Free to South Africa I But why stop there The people of the Transvaal are large-minded and open-hearted; Why not throw wide open the gates of our great'college and make it free and without price to the youth of the British Empire. Let the young men from Great Britain, from our far-reaching Dominions, and from the Islands of the Seven Seas meet and mingle with our'own lads in friendly rivalry on the campus and on the veld here in the heart of South Africa. And as the University of Leyden rose in commemoration of the relief of that city from the Spanish siege, and the monument at Quebec to Montcalm and Wolfe, let this new College - an adequate tributewas has been so eloquently expressed in the final letter from Professor Mackay - rise to the memory of Kruger and Rhodes upon the grant of free-government by the British Parliament and the Imperial Crown.

In the United States I was muc_h struck with. The magnifi cent and successful efforts which are being made by the authorities of the University of Wisconsin to educate grown-up persons in almost every conceivable line of human activity. Indeed extension work has become the outstanding policy of the Unit ersity. It has changed the aspect of the whole State in the short space of three years; while the work of the College of Agriculture alone is valued at twenty 'million dollars per annum. As the President, Dr. Charles R. Van Hise, remarked We cannot afford to wait until our lads grow up. We must attack the problem now-at once - and that is why we are bending all our energies to educate the older men and women who have 'had neither the time, nor the money, nor the (hence to study in the days of their youth.

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