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cultural education of the University of California. Prof. Stcbbins 

 took the position that ''the first aim of the school garden is to build 

 citizenship and at the same time to create a sympathy for farming 

 life, for it is the farm which gives solidity and character to the State. " 

 An incomplete committee report on a course of study in agriculture 

 was submitted by the chairman, E. C. Bishop, Iowa State Agricultural 

 College. Upon motion, the committee was given another year in 

 wliich to complete the report. 



The meeting of the department on Thursday morning was in joint 

 session with the department of normal schools and the department of 

 physical education. At this meeting "Agriculture and home eco- 

 nomics in high schools with special reference to community work " was 

 discussed by E. T. Fairchild, State superintendent of public instruc- 

 tion in Kansas; "Agriculture and home economics in normal schools 

 with special reference to preparing teachers for community work," 

 by President J. E,. Kirk, of the Kirksville, Mo., State Normal School, 

 Prof. R. O. Johnson, State Normal School, Chico, Cal., and Susan B. 

 Sipe, Normal School No. 1, Washington, D. C; "Physical education in 

 elementary rural schools," by L. R. Alderman, State superintendent 

 of public instruction in Oregon, and E. L. Holton, professor of rural 

 education of the Kansas Agricultural College. 



The department of normal schools also discussed at its meeting on 

 Wednesday, the "Preparation of normal school students for industrial, 

 agricultural, and vocational work," the paper on this subject being 

 presented by Z. X. Snyder, president of the Colorado State Teachers' 

 College. 



The formal organization of the School Garden Association of Amer- 

 ica occurred on the afternoon of July 12, at which time a constitution 

 was adopted and the following officers elected: President, V. E. 

 Kilpatrick, New York; secretary, D. J. Crosby, Washington, D. C; 

 treasurer, Ellen Eddy Shaw, New York; vice presidents, C. A. Steb- 

 bins, Berkeley, Cal.; Louise Klein Miller, Cleveland, Ohio; Stella 

 Nathan, Pliiladelphia, Pa.; Susan B, Sipe, Washington, D. C; S. B. 

 McCready, Guelph, Ontario; W. A. Baldwin, Hyannis, Mass. 



At this session of the association ^liss Louise Klein ^filler gave an 

 illustrated lecture on the "Civic aspect of school gardens"; E. C. 

 Bishop presented a paper on the "Child's home garden in its relation 

 to the school garden" ; and R. O. Johnson read a paper on the "School 

 garden as a center for nature study." On Friday afternoon Miss 

 Mller spoke again on the "Civic aspect of school gardens"; B. J. 

 Horchem, Dubuque, Iowa, gave an illustrated lecture on "School 

 gardening, a fundamental element in education"; and Miss Sipe, an 

 illustrated lecture on "School gardens in Washington." Thore was 

 also a j)ii])0T by C. A. Stebbins on "Growuig cliildren in California 

 school gardens." 



