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cnulonc'ss of thoii<ifht and characler. Such trainiiii";, it was believed, 

 should take the form of instruction in foreign languages, literature, 

 liistory, economics, philosophy, and especially ethics and religion. 



Even though tlie function of the land-grant colleges is to produce 

 industrial experts, the speaker held that they should graduate liber- 

 ally educated experts, men who know one subject thoroughly and 

 many fundamentally. " The great j^'oblem of the higher education 

 now before us is how to integrate specialism with the totalit}^ of which 

 it is a part ; " and each college was urged to see that its strongest em- 

 phasis is put " upon what in any and every educational institution is 

 its main object and should be its highest ambition and satisfaction and 

 glory — its human output." 



The rej^ort of the executive committee, presented by Dr. H. C 

 AVhite, reviewed the events of the year — the passage of the Adams 

 Act; its interpretation, the limitation of the period for which the 

 act makes appropriation, the Comptroller of the Treasury holding 

 that it terminates with the fiscal year 1911, the second session of the 

 graduate school, and the efforts of the committee in behalf of various 

 measures before Congress. Initial steps were taken by the committee 

 for the establishment of a department of rural education in the Na- 

 tional Educational Association, but failure of the association to hold 

 a meeting prevented action. The committee was in correspondence 

 during the year with the president of the board of trustees of the 

 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, with refer- 

 ence to including the land-grant colleges among the beneficiary insti- 

 tutions of the foundation. It Avas invited to present the matter to 

 tlie trustees at a meeting to be held November 21, lOOG, and Dr. H. C. 

 White was subsequently designated by the committee as its repre- 

 sentative in that matter. 



The association passed a resolution expressing its gratitude to the 

 executive conmiittee for its painstaking and efficient efl'orts in connec- 

 tion with the passage of the Adams Act. 



The report of the treasurer showed receipts from dues of $1,500, 

 disbursements amounting to $1,537.4!), leaving — Avith the balance car- 

 ried over from last year — a balance of $958.38. The treasurer also 

 accounted for subscriptions to the fund for the graduate school from 

 22 institutions for 1905 and 10 for 1906, amounting in all to $950. 

 Of this amount $127.48 was paid for expenses of the committee on 

 graduate study, and $822.52 was turned over to the University of 

 Illinois toward paying the expenses of the school. 



The rei^ort of the bibliographer. Dr. A. C. True, consisted of a 

 list of books written by agricultural college and experiment sta- 

 tion officers. The list included 385 titles of books, the work of 195 

 men and women now or at one time connected with airricidtural 



