SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE.

Press, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5681, 3 December 1883, Page 3

SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE.

TO THB EDITOB OF THB PEESS. Sib, —I make it a rule not to notice anonymous communications to the Press, however .damaging the nature of their contents may apparently be, believing that, as a rule, writers who conceal their, names when writing in the public prints, while posing as public henefactors, have too often a private end to serve, or may wish, like the proverbial ass in the lion's hide, to conceal their identity in the columns of the powerful Press, so that their statements may in some measure partake of the respectability of their host. As you have, in the public interest, condescended to notice a letter signed "R. H. D.," which appeared in your issue of the 30th instant, thus giving it some weight in the eyes of your readers, I feel desirous of departing from my rule in order to give, through the medium of your columns, full particulars upon all points raised in the .aid letter, as I am aware that it is the wish of my Governors that the fullest information on all matters connected with the working of this institution should be afforded to the public. But, sir, I think that if I so far notice this letter as to promise to do this, I am entitled to ask that the writer's name be disclosed, the more especially as, from the tone of the letter, I may be inclined to suspect that its contents were dictated by a spirit of. personal animosity towards myself, rather than, from a deßire to.benefit the agricultural community. If the name be not given, I would ask your readers to trust my Statement, that the mass of insinuations, beliefs, opinions, Ac., of which the letter in question is chiefly made up, is really beneath: their notice, and the general statements practically without foundation, and that the fullest information upon any matters connected with the institution is—as I am myself—-always at their service. Tours, Ac, W. E. Iw, Director. , December Ist. ! —" . »