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college. President Storms held that the head of each main depart- 

 ment of the college should have general oversight of the instructional, 

 research, and extension work of his department, each of these phases 

 being more particularly in the hands of an assistant, and that the 

 general director of the extension department should cooperate with 

 the other department heads and their subordinate assistants in charge 

 of extension work. 



The entrance requirements and standards for land-grant colleges 

 was presented in a paper by J. L. Snyder. He believed that entrance 

 requirements were purely a local problem, dependent in each State 

 upon the advancement of the secondary schools within reach of the 

 people; but that graduation requirements should be practically uni- 

 form in all the colleges and in keeping with traditional understand- 

 ings in regard to the worth of academic degrees. The speaker par- 

 ticularly deprecated the tendency to alter land-grant college entrance 

 requirements in order to meet the conditions of pension benefits on 

 the Carnegie Foundation. 



As the public educational system develops in each State standards for col- 

 lege entrance will advance. They should be sufficiently high to serve as a 

 stimulus to secondary schools, but not so far advanced as to create a gap 

 between the public-school system and institutions of higher learning. 



W. E. Stone heartily indorsed the main features of this paper and 

 emphasized further the view that the high schools of a State have an 

 independent duty toward their constituencies as finishing schools for 

 those who do not go on to college. He believed that " the colleges 

 should adjust their requirements to what is proper for the high 

 schools to do." 



President MacLean emphasized the necessity of frequent readjust- 

 ment between the school, whether secondary or collegiate, and its 

 constituency. The uniformity which has become almost standard 

 throughout the country must be tempered with a variable content in 

 the curriculum which is specially adapted to local conditions. 



Under the third topic, H. J. AVaters discussed the Function of 

 Land-grant Colleges in Promoting Collegiate and Graduate Instruc- 

 tion in Agriculture Outside of the Course of the Graduate School. 

 In a rapid survey of the development of college work in recent years 

 he pointed out the fact that the pressure of attendance and of outside 

 calls for information had seriously hindered the development of 

 superior teaching and further research. 



We have been giving the world the benefit of the discoveries of science for 

 the past fifteen or twenty years; * * * but to do this alone or even chiefly 

 is fatal to progress. The farmer will soon catch up with the college teacher, 

 and then all opportunity for leadership is lost. 



The speaker held that upon the experiment station devolves the 

 duty of " making an exact science of agriculture." Higher standards 



