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(e) On graduate study, 

 (il) On oxti'iision work, 

 (e) On cxpcriincnt station orjranization and iiolioy. 



(2) That eacli (•(ininiittw shall consist of tivo nionihors. 



(3) That tho conunitteos shall be appointed and announced by the president 

 of the association at the concluding session of each annual convention. 



(4» That the members of the committees, when practicable and unless the 

 president for fiood cause shall othei'wise determine, shall be selected from 

 those in attendance upon the convention at which the committees were 

 appointed. 



(5) That vacancies arising between conventions shall he tilled by the com- 

 mittee in which the vacancy has occurTcd. 



After considerable discussion the resolution offered by the conunittee was 

 adopted, and their i-ecomniendations were referred to a special committee con- 

 sisting of A. C. True. 1.. II. Bailey. E. A. liryan. W. K. Stone, and C. I). Woods 

 to report during the convention. (For report of this conunittee see p. 50.) 



Department or AcKKri.TrR.vi. Education- in the National Edicationai, 



Association. 



The chairman of the executive committee rei'ortcd the following resolution, 

 offered by K. I.. liutterheld, of Rhode Island : 



Whereas this association believes that the questions involved in the general 

 and the technical education of the rural jn'ople are of sutHcient imitortance to 

 warrant si)ecial recognition in the great gatherings of American educators: 

 Therefore be it 



Hcftolred. That our executive committee l)e hereby instructed to take such 

 steps as they may consider necessary in an endeavor to secure the consent of 

 the National Educational Association to add to its list of special departments 

 a department or departments on rural and agricultural education. 



K. L. Butterfield. I do not know that this resolution needs any extended 

 explanation. It has been presented here after consultation with mend)ers who 

 are in touch with the National Educational Association. It seems to me that 

 while the suggestion might come from that association that it has already, per- 

 haps, a sufficient or too great number of departments, the fact remains that 

 the National Educational Association has not yet recognized agricultural edu- 

 cation in a sufficient degree. It is true that the subject of rural schools has 

 been taken up in the last eight or ten years, and well discussed by that associa- 

 tion. It is also true that the I'ecent report of the committee on industrial edu- 

 cation is a good piece of work ; but the department that we stand for has not 

 been, to my mind, definitely and sufficiently recognized by the National Educa- 

 tional Association. It happens that the National Educational Association has 

 announced that it is to ask for a bill of incorporation from the next Congre.ss, 

 and in that bill there are specified seventeen departments already existing. 



Now, it seems to me that the work of agricultural education has attained 

 sufficient dignity to demand from the body of our educators a department. It 

 is true that these things may be taken up in a general session, but, as a matter 

 of fact, they will not be sufficiently discussed. It also remains true that if we 

 had a department of this sort, we, who are members of this association, would 

 be charged with the responsibility of supporting it ; but it seems to me that 

 would be wholly a good thing, that we ought to be in closer touch than we are 

 with that association, and they ought to recognize more fully the relations of 

 our special lines of work to the general educational movement of the day. And 

 this matter leaves the method entirely with our executive committee, to treat 

 it as they see fit, to call it what they see fit, and, in fact, to engage as they see fit 

 with the National Educational Association. 



On motion the resolution offered by President Butterfield was adopted. 



