24 Report of the Director. 



The second step is to segregate the different fields of work, 

 each field with its own organization. These fields are three: (i) 

 college and university teaching; (2) extension work; (3) research 

 and experiment. Each of these departments should have its own 

 staff, devoting itself directly and consecutively to the problems 

 within its field. 



I. Teaching. 



So far as entrance requirements and other statutory matters go, 

 the four years' course in the College of Agriculture is fully equiva- 

 lent to that offered in the College of Arts and Sciences. It is 

 expected that the equipment will soon be adequate to the working 

 out of these ideals in the most thorough-going way in every depart- 

 ment. In order to accomplish these ends, however, all students 

 pursuing the regular courses must be of standard academic grade. 

 This means that students who are unprepared to pursue any course 

 of instruction must be cared for otherwise. Such students may enter 

 as specials. 



In all the great agricultural departments, as agronomy, horti- 

 culture, animal husbandry, in which mature judgment of affairs is 

 needed, it should be the policy to place no class in full charge of 

 an officer of the grade of instructor. Assistants and instructors 

 should aid the professors, not have charge of classes on their own 

 responsibility and in their own name. All these great departments, 

 therefore, must be supplied with more than one professor — with 

 as many professors, in fact, as the growth of the work demands ; 

 and every effort should be made to secure men strong enough to 

 occupy full professorships. Every department should be strength- 

 ened with men until each man can devote his best energies to 

 his own special work and until the department itself stands 

 imexcelled. 



High-grade collegiate work and high-class equipment lead nat- 

 urally to postgraduate studies. In these studies the College of Agri- 

 culture at Cornell University should excel. Even at present, the 

 number of students pursuing postgraduate and special advanced 

 work exceeds forty, which is itself a larger body of students than is 

 present in some agricultural institutions in all departments. About 

 15 per cent, of the students in the Graduate Department of Cornell 

 University are prosecuting agricultural work. There is every reason 

 why this work should be encouraged. In a short time, some of the 

 officers must give practically all their time to postgraduate students ; 



