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Excerpt from Address of Gov; Gilbert C. Walker: At the Commencement of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, July 9, 1873
These schools are based substantially upon the theory that every useful occupation of man is a specialty - that is, that it involves in its exercise principles and practices peculiar to itself, and which do not, in a like degree, at least, belong to any other, and that a know ledge Of these can be best obtained in a school especially devoted to instruction therein.
Upon this theory was organized the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, and whatever mutations may await it in the coming years, I trust that from this fundamental idea it will never depart. Its mission is essentially and pre-eminently that of practical education.
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