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college, the remaining competitors in order being Nebraska, Texas. 

 Missouri, Kansas, Ohio, Ontario, and Minnesota. 



The Armour scholarships contingent upon these contests and upon 

 the prize winnings of the colleges and stations have been awarded, 

 Iowa receiving 7, Nebraska and AYisconsin 3 each, Purdue 2, and 

 Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Texas 1 each. 



NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE UNI^'ERSITIES. 



At the convention held at Washington, D. C, November IG and 17, 

 the committee reports and papers considered were chiefly concerned 

 with administrative matters in connection with state universities. 

 Of these two dealt with problems having an important bearing on 

 institutions for agricultural education, viz, the report of the com- 

 mittee on standards, and a paper on university extension in state 

 universities. The report of the committee on standards, which was 

 preliminary in nature, defined the standard American university as 

 an institution: (1) Requiring for admission the completion of a 

 standard American high-school course of four years (not less than 

 14 units of 5 periods each) ; (2) offering in the College of Liberal 

 Arts and Sciences two years of general work completing or supple- 

 menting the high-school course; (3) offering further two years of 

 university work leading to the bachelor's degree, and " reaching for- 

 ward to the continuation of this work in the graduate school or the 

 professional school;" (4) offering professional courses in law, or 

 medicine, or engineering, based upon the completion of two years 

 of college work, and (5) offering in the graduate school an adequate 

 course leading to the degree of doctor of philosophy. The com- 

 mittee recommended further that not less than GO units of college 

 work be required for the bachelor's degree ; that the qualifications of 

 teachers in the high school should be not less than the bachelor's de- 

 gree and ought to be the master's degree ; that as a rule professors of 

 all grades of college work should have the degree of doctor of philos- 

 ophy or its equivalent; that professors giving instruction in gradu- 

 ate work should further show their scholastic ability by successful 

 research and publication and by demonstration of their ability as 

 teachers; that adequate libraries, laboratories, and other equipment 

 should be provided ; that three years or 45 units from the beginning 

 of the junior year be required for the degree of master of arts, and 

 five years or 75 units for the degree of doctor of philosophy, and 

 with work in residence, and that to be a standard university an insti- 

 tution shall be equipped to give instruction leading to the degree of 

 doctor of philosophy in at least five departments and shall have at 

 least one university professional school requiring two years of college 

 training for admission. 



