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senting the glee club and the mandolin club, and the Athletic Advis- 

 ory Council of the College of Agriculture, representing the track, 

 crew, baseball, soccer football and basketball interests ; Cornell 

 Dairy Students' Association; Cornell Horticultural Union (resident 

 and former students) ; Students' Association of the New York State 

 College of Agriculture (resident and former students) ; New York 

 State Drainage Association (essentially not a student organiza- 

 tion) ; The Home-Makers' Conference (open to women throughout 

 the State who wish to join. Winter-course girls in Home Eco- 

 nomics are eligible). The students in the winter courses have their 

 special clubs in addition, and each year have inter-club debates for 

 the Morrison Winter-Course Trophy Cup. Most of the above or- 

 ganizations are represented and united in the Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation, which is the oldest association of students in Cornell Uni- 

 versity, having been organized in 1871. 



The Agricultural Assembly, which meets on the first Thursday 

 evening of each month during the college year, is the compre- 

 hensive association of the interests of the College, when faculty 

 and students meet together on a common social basis. The College 

 has its own student oratorical stage, and its own student periodical, 

 The Cornell Countryman. The Student Agricultural Extension 

 Committee arranges for meetings of farmers in their local halls, 

 and provides student and faculty speakers who discuss pertinent 

 .subjects. 



All this student activity should be guided by a sympathetic man 

 who is responsible to the administration of the College. Such 

 guidance should produce results of the very greatest value in the 

 building of character and in the training of young people to work 

 together for the common good. It is with this purpose that I have 

 framed out the, field for A. R. Mann, who is in every way well 

 adapted to this work. It represents a new department of activity, 

 but I am convinced that it is capable of being made as important 

 as any regular teaching department, and I hope that it will be main- 

 tained and encouraged. It is of the first importance that all the 

 student forces, even outside of regular and recognized classes, be 

 held in hand, and directed into useful and effective efifort. This 

 is more important in character-building than the mere formal work 

 of a recitation-room. 



Program of Publicity. 



I think the time has come when this College of Agriculture should 

 throw itself directly on the people of the State, acquainting them 



