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PROF. VAN NORMAN: I just want to say that I am not in a po- 

 sition to extend an official invitation; that is a little strong. If 

 the Colonel approves that, then I am all right. 



COLONEL WOODWARD: I am perfectly willing to assume that 

 position and responsibility for the Board of Trustees and for the 

 Faculty, as I feel sure it will meet with their hearty approval. 



PROF. VAN NORM AN: My idea when I made the remark was 

 to throw it out to you as a suggestion or a feeler. 



MR. BLYHOLDER: Are we in a position to accept an invitation 

 for the farmers of the State of Pennsylvania? I believe that our 

 motion had better be that we approve of such a meeting. 1 think 

 that that will be advisable. I do not believe that we are ready or 

 authorized to accept the invitation on the part of the farmers of 

 the State. 



MR. McCRACKEN: Mr. Chairman, my motion was that it was the 

 sense of this meeting that the invitation should be accepted. 



MR. HERR: I think if the motion was passed as he put it, it would 

 be construed to be an invitation to the Board of Agriculture, and I 

 want it to be extended to the farmers of the State and not be con- 

 fined to the Board of Agriculture. 



The CHAIRMAN: I think that is the sense of the motion, as un- 

 derstood by the Secretary. 



MR. McCLELLAN: I would like to inquire whether the people at 

 the State College or in that vicinity would be able to take care of 

 three, five or seven hundred people that would meet there at one 

 time. 



PROF. VAN NORMAN: That thing ran through my mind. I be- 

 lieve that we have dormitory facilities for between five and six hun- 

 dred students in the town. If you gentlemen are willing to come 

 after Christmas, there would be a week before the opening of the 

 next term. I know that we have quite a good eating-house up there 

 in the campus, and I think that the sleeping business can be taken 

 care of w r hen,you get there. 



The SECRETARY: Would it not be better to come in the summer 

 than in the winter? 



PROF. VAN NORMAN: Farmers can usually get away better in 

 the winter than in the summer. 



The CHAIRMAN: This brings the subject up for consideration 

 and it will work itself out in the future, and this motion, as I un- 

 derstand it, does not bind this Board to anything only to take the 

 matter home and endeavor to educate our people to it. Is that cor- 

 rect? 



COL. WOODWARD: That is correct. 



The question being put, it was agreed to. 



Dr. Rothrock was called for and came forward. 



The Chairman: It is not necessary to introduce Dr. Rothrock t« 

 this audience. 



