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who at the request of the chairman of the committee was designated 

 to act as secretary of the committee. 



Mr. L. A. Kalbach, representing the Commissioner of Education, 

 gave a paper showing the relation of the Bureau of Education to 

 the land-grant colleges and the growth of these institutions during 

 the past ten years. 



The association placed itself on record as strongly in favor of 

 adequate appropriations to the Office of Experiment Stations to 

 enable it to enlarge its work upon agricultural education, the details 

 of the various forms of agricultural extension teaching, and to assist 

 the different institutions to organize this form of work; and of 

 increased Federal appropriation for education in agriculture and 

 mechanic arts along the lines of the appropriation under the second 

 Morrill Act. The executiv^e committee was instructed to consider 

 the advisability of the association meeting at least once in four years 

 in connection with the National Educational Association. 



The section on college work and administration considered three 

 main topics: (1) Administration of the land-grant colleges — organiza- 

 tion and classification of the instructional force, ccmtrol of student 

 activities, and student labor; (2) relation of the land-grant college 

 to the public school system, to the agricultural industries, and to 

 the mechanical mdustries, and (3) curriculum of the land-grant col- 

 lege — study of home economics in the land-grant college, the short 

 practical course, its place and importance, and agricultural extension. 



J. L. Snyder, of Michigan, discussed the organization and classi- 

 fication of the instruction force, and E. B. Andrews, of Nebraska, 

 the control of student activities, including such matters as students' 

 fuiances, athletics, and social functions. R. W. Stimson, of Connec- 

 ticut, read a paper on student labor, in which he reviewed the history 

 of this phase of college work and noted an unmistakable tendency 

 toward labor for educational exercise rather than for the production 

 of a finished product. D. B. Purinton, of West Virginia, B. O. 

 Aylesworth, of Colorado, and others, discussed the relation of the 

 land-grant college to the public school system, the discussion bringing 

 out the fact that the colleges generally are confronted with demands 

 for assistance from the public schools, and owe a duty to these schools 

 largely in the direction of helping them to develop courses related to 

 the occupations of the people in rural communities. W. A. Henry, 

 of Wisconsin, discussed the relation of the land-grant college to the 

 agricultural industries, and developed a strong argument for the 

 definite organization of extension departments in these colleges. 

 This was further emphasized by J. C. Hardy, of Mississippi. The 

 relation of the land-grant college to the mechanical industries was 

 treated by A. B. Storms, of Iowa, in a paper dealing largely with the 

 work begun and proposed by the engmeering experiment station of 



