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home economics in Cornell University. Special lectures were de- 

 livered by Prof. L. B. ]Mendel, of the Sheffield Scientific School of 

 Yale University, on Foods and Dietary Standards, and by Prof. Dr. 

 N. Ziintz, of the Royal Aiiricultural College of Berlin, on Food 

 Values. The profit and interest of the session were also much en- 

 hanced by the lecture of the Graduate School of Agriculture, notably 

 those of Doctors Mendel, Armsbv. and Ziintz. 



The fourth session of the Graduate School of Agriculture has been 

 announced for the summer of 1910 at Ames, Iowa, under the auspices 

 of the State College of Agriculture and ^Mechanic Arts. The school 

 will, as formerly, be under the general management of the Associa- 

 tion of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations 

 through its committee on graduate study, of which Dr. H. P. 

 Armsby is chairman. Dr. A. C. True, of this Office, has again agreed 

 to serve as dean. 



THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES. 



In 1909 agricultural colleges receiving federal funds were in 

 operation in all the States and Territories except Alaska. Includ- 

 ing the separate colleges for negroes in the Southern States, there 

 were G7 such institutions. There was also established a college of 

 agriculture in the Philippines, in accordance with the provisions of 

 act 1870 of the Philippine legislature of June 18, 1908, which pro- 

 vided for the establishment of the College of Agriculture and the 

 College of Veterinar}' Science of the University of the Philippines, 

 the latter college to be located at ^Manila on the site of the animal 

 quarantine station at Pandacan. The college of agriculture was 

 opened at Las Banos with E. B. Copeland as dean and professor of 

 botany. Sixty students enrolled at the opening of the college. 



The Rhode Island general assembly changed the name of the Rhode 

 Island College of Agriculture and Mechanics Arts to Rhode Island 

 State College, and increased the membership of the board of 

 managers of the college by the addition of the state commissioner 

 of education and a representative to be elected from the state board 

 of agriculture. 



In Montana the executive board of the agricultural college has been 

 replaced by a new governing board consisting of the president of the 

 college and two members selected by the state board of education. 

 The powers of the new board are restricted, suj^ervisory control of 

 the finances being vested in the state board of examiners. The change 

 became effective April 15. 



Permanent legislation enacted at the last session of the Tennessee 

 legislature has greatly improved the status of the University of 

 Tennessee. It is now fully under the control of the State, and its 

 governing board has been reorganized so that different sections of 

 the State are represented on it. A general education law has been 



