History of the Michigan agricultural college and biographical sketches of trustees and professors . t of the section on industrialeducation. The part taken by President Fairchild in the framing of the Morrill Act felOGRAtHiCAL SKETCHES OF TRUSTEES AND FACULTY. 411 is not geiicnilly known. hill was opposed by the; (Jrangc, on the groundthat the funds of the agricultural colleges, which came from the sale of publiclands had hitherto not been used for the teaching of agriculture, but forother things in which they are not interested. Dr. Fairchild framed theclause, limiting the use to be ma
History of the Michigan agricultural college and biographical sketches of trustees and professors . t of the section on industrialeducation. The part taken by President Fairchild in the framing of the Morrill Act felOGRAtHiCAL SKETCHES OF TRUSTEES AND FACULTY. 411 is not geiicnilly known. hill was opposed by the; (Jrangc, on the groundthat the funds of the agricultural colleges, which came from the sale of publiclands had hitherto not been used for the teaching of agriculture, but forother things in which they are not interested. Dr. Fairchild framed theclause, limiting the use to be made of such funds, which secured the passageof the Act. In 1897, the Populist party for a brief period controlled the Kansas statelegislature and because, as individuals, the members of the faculty of thecollege did not agree with the Populistic ideas, the Board of Regents de-liberately terminated the official connection of every member of the Fairchild resigned and did everything in his power to preventthis political invasion from injuring the institution to which he had given. GEORGE THOMPSON FAIRCHILD. SO many years of his life. When the revolution was reversed he was urgedto resume his position, but declined, with the remark that A new man cando more for the College than I can. Upon his retirement from activework in Kansas, he spent a year in the preparation of his book, Rural Wealthand Welfare. Later he took up the task of organizing the industrial andagricultural departments of Berea College in Kentucky. It was while vice-president of this institution that he was stricken with the disease whichled to an operation in Columbus, Ohio, under which he died. Professor A. J. Cook says of him: He will ever be most affectionatelyremembered by the students of those thirteen years as a ripe scholar, athorough, accurate teacher, and, best of all, as a Christian gentleman whosefaith was ever shown by his works. There was a universal lament when hewas called to a highe
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