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college work he should be admitted without much reference to formal 

 credits. President Hill also called attention to the fact that it is 

 difficult to get high schools to present more than one year of well- 

 taught agriculture for college entrance, and suggested that the agri- 

 cultural colleges could aid the movement for the better teaching of 

 agriculture in secondary schools by preparing outlines and helping 

 to standardize the work in such schools. 



A discussion of the correlation of secondary and short courses with 

 the four years' course was presented in a paper by D. J. Crosby, who 

 pointed out the fact that these courses were established primarily to 

 prepare young men for the business of farming and not for college 

 entrance, but maintained that in all such courses opportunities for 

 college entrance preparation should be afforded to students having 

 the ambition, the intellectual qualifications, and the means to pursue 

 a college course. For such students, he maintained, there should be 

 no gap between the end of the secondary or short course and the 

 college course, such as is found in schools offering a three-year severely 

 technical agricultural course and an intermediate year of academic 

 work for college entrance. He maintained also that schools having 

 a six-months year should endeavor to provide their students with 

 summer-vacation problems to be worked out on the farm, to be 

 regularly reported upon at the opening of the succeeding year, and 

 to receive definite credits toward graduation. This would have the 

 effect of standardizing work which is now done and for which there 

 are no definite credits, and by reason of which the school suffers in 

 comparison with other schools in presenting college entrance credits. 



In his discussion of this paper, H. C. Price dealt with the public- 

 school secondary courses rather than the secondary schools main- 

 tained in connection with agricultural colleges, and stated that in the 

 Ohio College of Agriculture it was the practice to make it more diffi- 

 cult for city boys to enter the college course than for country boys, 

 this being accomplished by admitting country boys upon graduation 

 from a three-year high-school course, while city boys coming from a 

 four-year high-school course must present a certificate of graduation. 

 He said that judging from three years' experience the college of 

 agriculture had not suffered-from such an arrangement. The purpose 

 of the short courses in the college of agriculture, according to Dean 

 Price, is to prepare for the business of farming, and such courses 

 should not be combined with college preparatory courses. 



W. M. Hays referred to the desirability of maintaining secondary 

 courses, for a time at least, in every agricultural college to aid in the 

 preparation of teachers of agriculture for lower schools. 



A plan of university organization was discussed informally by A. R. 

 Hill, who recommended (1) a small board of control, 7 to 9 members, 

 to be appointed by the governor from both political parties, whose 



