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association reaffirmed its conviction that a graduate school of agriculture is a 

 desirable enterprise to be conducted in the summer at different colleges of 

 agriculture in rotation, and expressed its desire that this school be held every 

 two years. 



The committee on graduiite study was empowered to determine where such 

 schools shall be held, and also to request each agricultural college to contribute 

 the sum of, say, $25 annually to aid in the maintenanee of such school. The 

 connnittee reports that arrangements have been concluded whereby the school 

 is to be held at the University of Illinois in the sunnner of inoo. It has also 

 asked each of the agricultural colleges whether it could contribute $25 each 

 year in aid of a graduate school. Affirmative responses have been received 

 from 27 institutions, and negative responses from 15. Four of the institutions 

 have expressed doubt as to tiieir ability to contribute, and .3 have not responded. 

 Omitting the University of Illinois, at which the forthcoming school is to be 

 held, there remain 2G "positive affirmative replies, making an annual assured 

 contril)ution at this time of $0.50, or .$l,oUO for the biennium. 



Your committee finds itself without definite powers in respect to the graduate 

 school beyond the two items of business mentioned above. The nature of the 

 powers delegated to this committee will determine the attitude of the associa- 

 tion toward the graduate school, and the measure of responsibility that it 

 desires to assume. Your connnittee believes that a graduate school is exceed- 

 ingly important for the purpose of aiding the officers in colleges and experiment 

 stations in keeping in touch with current progress, of concreting and harmo- 

 nizing the work of these institutions, of developing friendships, and of inspiring 

 enthusiasm. It believes that the maintaining of a graduate school should be 

 a regular and continuing work of this association. Your committee therefore 

 makes the following propositions for your consideration : 



(«) The Graduate School of Agriculture is an institution of this association. 



{h) It follows, therefore, that the policy and method of the school are to be 

 determined by the association, and that the institution at which the school 

 is held in any year is to be the agent of this association. 



If these propositions are adopted, then the committee on graduate study (or 

 some other conmiittee created by the association) must be empowered to pro- 

 vide for the financial and i)edagogical policies and conduct of the school. The 

 committee recommends that : 



(1) The moneys contributed by the different institutions in aid of the school 

 shall be paid to the treasurer of this association and by him be paid over to 

 the institution at which the school is held. 



(2) The expenditures of these moneys shall be with the advice and consent 

 of the committee on graduate study. 



(3) The institution at which the school is held be requested to make to this 

 association, for the information of the association and of such institutions as 

 may care to conduct such a school, a statement of the expenditures in the 

 interest of the school, not only of such funds as are derived from contributions, 

 but also from fees and appropriations by the institution itself. 



(4) The committee on graduate study, by and with the concurrence of the 

 president of the institution at which the school is held, shall choose a dean of 

 such school, and shall, either through the dean or otherwise, and with the con- 

 currence of the institution, choose the faculty and determine the course of 

 study. 



(5) All local arrangements and all work of publicity lie with the institution 

 holding the school. 



(G) The committee be empowered to solicit funds from experiment stations 

 as well as from colleges, when such stations are under management separate 

 from the colleges, and also from State departments of agriculture and other 

 organizations if it should seem wise to do so. 



L. H. Bailey. 



M. H. BUCKHAM, 



A. C. True. 



^y. O. Thompson, 



B. Ayres, 



CoDtmittee. 



On motion of the chairman of the execiitive committee, the discussion of the 

 report was proceeded with at once. 



L. n. Bailey, of New York. There are two fundamental propositions which 

 should be discussed. I think, before we proceed to the details of the organization 



