172 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



The annual address of the president of the association, M. H. Biick- 

 ham, of Vermont, Avas in the main a plea for placing greater emphasis 

 upon the liberal and humanistic culture studies in the curriculum as a 

 means of preventing narrowness and crudeness of thought and char- 

 acter. He maintained that while the function of the land-grant 

 colleges is to produce industrial experts, they should be liberally 

 educated. (See also p. 233.) 



The report of the executive committee reviewed the work of that 

 committee during the year w^ith reference to the passage of the Adams 

 Act and its interpretation, initial steps with reference to the estab- 

 lishment of a department of rural education in the National Educa- 

 tional Association, and negotiations with the trustees of the Carnegie 

 Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching with reference to 

 including the land-grant colleges among the beneficiaries of that 

 institution. H. C. White, chairman of the executive committee, was 

 designated by that committee as its representative to present the last- 

 named matter to the trustees of the Carnegie Foundation at a meeting 

 held November 21, 1906. The association passed a resolution express- 

 ing its gratitude to the executive committee for its painstaking and 

 efficient efforts in connection with the passage of the Adams Act. 



The bibliographer, A. C. True, presented as his report a list of 385 

 books, the work of 195 men and women now or at one time connected 

 with agricultural colleges or experiment stations. (See p. 234.) 



Memorial addresses and appropriate resolutions relating to the life 

 and work of President George W. Atherton and Hon. Henry Cullen 

 Adams were presented. 



The committee on instruction in agriculture presented through its 

 chairman, A. C. True, a brief report explaining the organization of 

 the committee into subcommittees on (1) elementary courses, (2) 

 secondary courses, (3) courses in home economics, and (4) courses in 

 rural engineering. These subcommittees have in preparation reports 

 on the subjects assigned them, Avhich it is expected will be published 

 through this Office. In the discussion following this report there was 

 a general expression of interest in the Avork and a desire for the early 

 publication of the results of the committee's studies. (See also p. 234.) 



The report of the standing committee on graduate study, by Chair- 

 man L. H. Bailey, consisted of a brief account ( f the second session 

 of the Graduate School of Agriculture held at the University of Illi- 

 nois during the sunnner of 1906. Explaining the purpose of this 

 school, the report says: 



This graduate work stands for a kind of teaching that lies beyond the college 

 grade and that makes strongly for originality and personality. This enterprise 

 expresses the conviction of the association that agricultural subjects are as 

 capable as any others of advanced study, lliat they have equal and similar 

 pedagogical value, and that there is need of the pursuit of them. * * * The 



