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experiuental work. On the other hand, other of tlie instructors in our faculty 

 beginning with the second half of the year lay particular stress on the college 

 work, and in that way we are enabled to do, perhaps, rather more justice to the 

 dual duties than in any other way. I do not think this method is applicable to 

 all institutions, but it has worked fairly well with us. 



W. L. Carlyle, of Colorado. I think we are all agreed that from the stand- 

 point of the investigator too much teaching is not advisalile, but from the 

 standpoint of the teacher some station work is certainly advisable, particularly 

 in tlie more industrial parts of our agricultural work. The man who is going to 

 do effective teaching for a period of years in animal husbandry, for example, 

 must be an investigator. If we take the investigation work away from our 

 teachers we are going to greatly lessen the effectiveness of the teaching. It 

 seems to me this is not so much a matter of amount of investigation as of 

 subjects. Certain subjects require practically all of a man's time and atten- 

 tion in the investigational work ; others are not so exacting, and those are per- 

 haps the ones which require a certain amount of investigational work to make 

 the teaching the more effective. Speaking from the standpoint of one who has 

 to investigate and teach at the same time, I think it would be a misfortune, in 

 some of the subjects particularly, if the station work and the teaching should be 

 divorced. 



n. P. Armsby, of Peinisylvunia. I think we all recognize the fact that we 

 can not at once adopt any uniform arrangement in this matter. But I take 

 it what we need especially to consider at the present time is not so much 

 the question of practicability as the question of ideals. It is a question of 

 the attitude of mind of the authorities of these institutions toward this 

 question; it is a question of the ultimate ideal that they will set before them- 

 selves to attain, and if that ideal is not any higher than that already reached 

 we shall not make much progress. Personally I believe it is just as true 

 now as it was two thousand years ago that no man can serve two masters. 

 I believe that in this agricultural work a man should be chiefly either one 

 thing or the other. I will not say that he should be exclusively either a teacher 

 or an investigator, but it seems to me that t!ie two kinds of work call for a 

 different attitude of mind and the use of a different set of faculties, to a cer- 

 tain extent, and that except in the case of unusually gifted men the same 

 individual is not likely to have both equally developed. I feel that an inves- 

 tigator and station worker should have his mind focused on his work of 

 investigation. On the other hand, it seems to me that the teacher's thought 

 should be pedagogical largely; it should be that side of his mind that is par- 

 ticularly active. I will admit that a certain amount of teaching may be advan- 

 tageous to station work, but an uncertain amount is not. 1 think that some 

 teaching, especially more or less advanced teaching, is a good thing, as has been 

 said repeatedly. Possibly it need not even be the most advanced teaching. I 

 do not think, however, that a station worker, even though he does some teach- 

 ing, should have loaded upon him the responsibility for the administration of 

 the teaching work of the college, or any considerable amount of it. I think he 

 should simply go into his class room and give his lectui'es or his instruction, 

 and be done with it. 



On the other hand, it seems to me that the teacher may very well do more 

 or less investigational work, accoi'ding to his taste and capacity. I would not 

 lor a moment exit him off from that, but I believe be should be thinking chiefly 

 of his teaching and should make his work of investigation his avocation rather 

 than his vocation. 



I repeat that this is a question of ideals rather than of immediate adjust- 

 ment. It is not a question of division of salaries. I think we may assume 



