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The conferences thus far arranged, with their leaders, are as follows: Agri- 

 cultural Research, Dean H. L. Russell, of the University of Wisconsin ; College 

 Instruction in Agriculture, Dean T. F. Hunt, of the Pennsylvania College ; Sec- 

 ondary Instruction in Agriculture, Professor W. H. French, of the Michigan Col- 

 lege, and D. J. Crosby, of this Office ; and Extension work, Director L. H. Bailey, 

 of Cornell University, and Superintendent G. I. Christie, of Purdue University. 



The faculty will include about 50 members of the staff of this Department and 

 various agricultural colleges and experiment stations, and the following addi- 

 tional specialists: A. D. Hall, director of the Rothamsted Station, F. H. A. 

 Marshall, professor of agricultural physiology, Cambridge University. Dr. Oscar 

 Riddle, of the Carnegie Institution, Dr. L. B. Mendel, of Yale University, 

 Dr. H. C. Sherman, of Columbia University, and Dr. T. N. Carver, of Harvard 

 University. 



The fourth session of the Graduate School of Home Economics will also be 

 held during July at the college, under the auspices of the American Home 

 Economics Association. 



Additional information may be obtained from the registrar, A. M. Brown, of 

 the Michigan College. 



The National Education Association at St. Louis. — The winter meeting of 

 the National Education Association at St. Louis, February 26-29, included the 

 regular winter meeting of the Department of Superintendence, special meetings 

 of the National Council of Education and the Department of Normal Schools, 

 and regular sessions of six affiliated organizations, among which was the National 

 Committee on Agricultural Education. The enrollment was the largest ever 

 recorded at a winter meeting — about 1,900 — and the program was full of interest 

 to those concerned with vocational education. 



The Department of Superintendence devoted one round-table session to agri- 

 culture in the rural school, at which several interesting papers were read, 

 including The Educative Value of the Study of Agi'iculture, by Earl Barnes, of 

 Philadelphia ; To What Extent Can Agriculture be Taught Below the High 

 School, by Hon. P. P. Claxton, U. S. Commissioner of Education ; and The Next 

 Step in Teaching Agriculture in the Rural Schools, by E. C. Bishop, of Iowa 

 State College. 



The National Committee on Agricultural Education held several sessions 

 dealing with courses of study in agriculture. A joint session with the Depart- 

 ment of Normal Schools afforded opportunity for a discussion of the place of 

 the normal school in agricultural education. The National Society for the 

 Study of Education held one session for the discussion of its annual yearbook, 

 which as usual was published in two parts, the first devoted to industrial edu- 

 cation, and the second to agricultural education in secondary schools. 



This latter publication was prepared under the direction of D. J. Crosby, 

 of this Office, and was by him discussed at the convention. It included the 

 following papers : The Training of Teachers for Secondary Courses in Agi'i- 

 culture, by A. C. Monahan : The Vocational Agricultural School, by R. W. 

 Stimson ; State-Aided Departments of Agriculture in Public High Schools, by 

 D. J. Crosby; High-School Agriculture Without State Subsidy, by W. H. French; 

 Short Courses and Extension Work in Agriculture for High Schools — In the 

 South, by H. F. Button, In the North, by F. R. Crane ; In Public High Schools 

 Should Agriculture be Taught as Agriculture or as Applied Science? by W. R. 

 Hart ; and In the Public High Schools Agriculture Should be Taught as Agri- 

 culture, Not as Applied Science, by G. F, Warren. 



Conference for Education in the South.— The Fifteenth Conference for Educa- 

 tion in the South was held in Nashville, Tenn., April 3-5, its purpose being the 

 improvement of economic and civic conditions in the South through education. 



