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should be a good man, stron<j intellectually, broad minded, able to 

 appear before men, patient and sympathetic, a ruler of men. The 

 college is a bu.siness corporation engaged in educational enterprises 

 and it should have at the head of it a single man of ability, who 

 should represent the trustees on the one hand, the faculty on the 

 other. He should have general supervision over discipline, but should 

 leave the details of it to others. 



In the discussion AV. E. Stone believed that college teachers should 

 be largely relieved of administrative affairs. M. H. Buckham be- 

 lieved that members of boards of trustees should be impressed with 

 the fact that they have no power except as members of the board, no 

 individual relations to the colleges. W. E. Garrison maintained that 

 the president should be held responsible for results, but that he 

 should have the advice of at least one man on his faculty occupying 

 such a position as dean which would bring him in view of the whole 

 field of college work. W. II. S. Demarest held that the discussion 

 thus far tended to put the board of trustees too far away from the 

 college and that the board should give some cognizance to detail; in 

 fact, should let it be known that on very rare occasions it would con- 

 sider grievances of students or faculties. 



The last topic. Military Discipline in Agricultural Colleges, was 

 discussed informally by Presidents Kerr, Stone, Connell, Nichols, 

 Patterson, Edwards, and Prof. John Hamilton of this Office. 



WORK OF THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION. 



The programme of the forty-seventh annual convention of the 

 National Education Association at Denver, July 3 to 9, 1909, was 

 remarkable for the attention given to topics dealing with industrial 

 education in general and agricultural education in particular. 



Prior to the formal oi:)ening of the convention the National Council 

 of Education considered at length three papers related to these topics, 

 viz, "NATiat Industrial Education Means to the Elementary Schools, 

 by A. S. Downing, first assistant commissioner of education in New 

 York; Rural School Supervision, by N. C. Schaeffer, state superin- 

 tendent of public instruction in Pennsylvania; and The Adjustment 

 of Our School System to the Changed Conditions of the Twentieth 

 Century, by E. G. Cooley, late superintendent of schools in Chicago. 

 Each of these papers dealt in part with agricultural education and 

 was followed by from five to ten three-minute papers and by informal 

 discussions. 



At the formal opening of the convention on Monday evening, the 

 annual presidential address by L. D. Harvey dealt with The Need, 

 Scope, and Character of Industrial Education in the Public School 

 System. The principal address at the general session on Wednes- 



