get a trade: then if they have the capacity and desire to
qualify for a "top round in the ladder," for leadership in
the "world's broad field of battle," it will be time enough
to think of Harvard and Yale and Edinburgh, or perhaps
similar African institutions.

Mr. George H. Corliss, of Rhode Island, presented to the
school in 1879 a sixty-horse power Corliss engine. Soon
after Mr. C.P. Huntington, of the Missouri & Pacific R.R.,
gave a saw mill, and as a result of these gifts large
industrial operations were begun. The saw mill is certainly
an extensive enterprise. Logs are brought up from the
Carolinas, and boards are sawn out, and in the turning
department fancy fixtures are made for houses, piazzas, etc.

There are two farms. The Normal School farm, and the
Hemenway farm, which is four miles from the Institute. On
the former seventy tons of hay and about one hundred and
twenty tons of ensilaged fodder-corn were raised last year,
besides potatoes, corn, rye, oats, asparagus, and early
vegetables. Five hundred thousand bricks were also made. The
Hemenway farm, of five hundred acres, is in charge of a
graduate and his wife. Its receipts reach nearly three
thousand dollars a year, and the farm promises to do
invaluable service in time towards sustaining this gigantic
work. All of the industries do not pay. For example, the
deficit in the printing office last year was about seven
hundred dollars. This is due to the employment and training
of student labor. The primary aim is not the making of money
but the advancement of the student. After they learn, they