On the occasion of a visit to Fairbanks a short time ago, Col. Jas. G. Steese delivered the Baccalaureate Sermon for the graduating class of the Agricultural College and School of Mines. The class consisted of one graduate, but he was none the less graduated with full and complete formality and ritualism. From caps and gowns to Baccalaureate Sermon the ceremony was complete.
Away up at the top of the world a student is graduated from an institution of higher learning at an expense, which would bankrupt the
State of Washington if multiplied by the number of students at the University of Washington and the State College at Pullman.
This does not daunt Alaska. She does not figure her future citizenship in terms-of dollars and cents. We doubt very much if anywhere
in the world there exists an educational institution more practically located and efficiently administered to meet the needs of the people it
is intended to serve.
The Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines will justify every dollar it costs. Because pioneering must be done in every Alaskan undertaking and pioneering is not fast work, this justification may seem long delayed, but it will come. Who can say but that the one graduate who this year received his diploma may alone return the entire investment.