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country for all the various callings for 

 which an extensive scientific training, 

 based upon liberal preparation is valu- 

 able and necessary.' 



A CONFERENCE OF COLLEGE AND 

 UNIVERSITY TRUSTEES. 

 One of the most interesting features 

 of the program at the University of 

 Illinois was the conference of trustees 

 of Amercan colleges and universities. 

 The invitation to this meeting was it- 

 self a document of real educational 



significance as it outlined with clear- 

 ness certain problems of deep concern 

 for higher education in the United 

 States. Thus it said : " In England the 

 old universities are self-governing 

 bodies, controlled largely by the fac- 

 ulties; in France and Germany they 

 are departments of the government, 

 and so far as they are not directly un- 

 der the control of the government, 

 they are autonomous, that is, ruled by 

 the faculties. In the United States 

 alone we felt it necessary to create a 

 third organ, an independent, often self- 



Thk College of Agriculture. 



