One of his strongest Dr. A.S. Welch, Prest Iowa Agrl College, Ames Iowa, Grad. Address 1878 (slightly modified in pencil for subsequent delivery elsewhere.) The Ideal Worker. And now, how can my words harmonize better with the thoughts natural to the hour than by sketching for you with rapid touches some of the ideals of life which every large and generous soul will surely seek to realize. After four years of intellectual effort I need not assure you that in the order of things an ideal of every excellence must precede its actual