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manual operations of this country are performed by the uneducated 

 people, there is no place for nuinual training in the degree courses, 

 but that skill in manual operations should be acquired in the lower 

 schools. President Snyder maintained that manual development 

 miijht to a certain extent be considered one of the legitimate aims of 

 a college course, which ought to be in the broadest sense a preparation 

 for life; and he outlined a tentative degree course in home economics. 



In discussing these papers Prof. L. H. Bailey pointed out a tend- 

 encv to react from the exclusivelv or severely technical under- 

 graduate courses, and to hold somewhat closely to some of the tradi- 

 tions of education. He noted further a growing disposition to occupy 

 the first two years of the college course with the fundamental or pure 

 science subjects, a drift of opinion toward humanizing the conduct 

 graduate courses, and to hold somewhat closely to some of the tradi- 

 sympathy with the work-a-day life," a desire to introduce other 

 subjects which have to do with the every-day life of the people, and a 

 general indication that the courses, particularly on the agricultural 

 side, are not regarded as severely technical. l*articularly was he 

 impressed with the emphasis placed upon the ideals of education 

 rather than practical utility. 



Student Control was the topic of a paper presented by President 

 W. O. Thompson, who favored administrative control, which places 

 the matter of discipline entirely in the hands of the president of the 

 college and does away with the necessity for elaborate rules and regu- 

 lations. 



In discussing the relation of the land-grant colleges to the State 

 universities. President W. J. Kerr stated that the logical division of 

 work in the States having separate institutions would be for the 

 universities to offer courses in liberal arts and the professions, while 

 the land-grant colleges would offer all of the technical courses in 

 agi-iculture and the mechanic arts. 



In a paper on The Normal Schools. President K. C. Balx-ock 

 brought out the fact that comparatively little is now being done to 

 train teachers for small towns, villages, and rural comuiunities. He 

 urged that the land-grant colleges should help the normal schools by 

 offering short courses for teachers, holding institutes, and sending out 

 their officers to give courses and lectures in normal schools. The same 

 general conception of the duty of the land-grant colleges in the move- 

 ment for the improvement of public schools was held by Dr. A. C. 

 True, who read a paper <»n The Pul)lic Schools. He said that the 

 colleges should study the progrannnes of the pul)lic schools, come into 

 close touch with their school officers and teachers, provide courses of 

 study which will be attractive to school officers and teachers, and by 

 sunnner schools or otherwise seek to i)ring such persons into direct 

 contact with the system of education represented in these colleges. 

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