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XX. Home Nature-Study Course. 



(a) Twenty-two students were registered in the two courses offered 

 at the University for the training of nature-study teachers. 



(c) Four numbers of the Home Nature-Study Course, aggregating 

 120 pages and containing 40 lessons, have been issued during the year. 

 Editions of 6,000 copies have been sent to 1,600 pupils in training classes 

 in the high schools of the state, 3,300 teachers in schools of the State, 

 450 libraries, and to other persons and institutions. 



From this summary it is evident that the activities of the College 

 continue to increase along each of the three well-marked lines of instruc- 

 tion to students, of extension work among the farmers of the State, and 

 of investigation and research that the bounds of our agricultural knowl- 

 edge may be extended. Increasingly it is borne in upon us that the 

 sphere of influence of this College and the services it may render to 

 the people of the State and nation are limited only by the amount of 

 funds available. 



The field in which the College works has no boundaries that can yet 

 be clearly discerned ; it is a field of vast and fundamental importance to 

 the future support and welfare of millions of human lives. The num- 

 bers of students continue to expand by leaps and bounds. Xor is this 

 all ; to the farmers of the State who cannot come to the College for 

 instruction the College must use every effort to bring the results of 

 advanced scientific research and the applications of newly-discovered 

 truths. The goal is an enlargement of agricultural knowledge, a better 

 education for farmers, and scientific method applied to the organization 

 of their industries. We are not engaged merely in developing an insti- 

 tution, but in developing the internal resources of this vast Empire 

 State and conserving the welfare of its people. Such is the cause for 

 which we ask that the Legislature grant large and liberal appropriations. 

 And the cause is one of such vital importance and the work hitherto 

 accomplished so fruitful that there is no exaggeration in the promise of 

 manifold returns upon all funds that may be so invested by the State. 



Respectfully submitted, 



JACOB GOULD SCHURMAN, 



President of Cornell University. 



