EDITORIAL. 505 



in the scicMicc of odiication in its relation to agricultural subjects, and 

 all should make provision for training teachers of agricvdture. 



By this it is not meant that the agricultural colleges should invade 

 the field of the normal schools. They should merely do the work 

 that the nornuil schools are not yet in position to do, nor can ever 

 be in a position to do fully. The normal courses offered by the 

 agricultural colleges should be no less thorough in their agricultural 

 features than the courses now crowned Avith the bachelor's degree. 

 On the other hand, it should not be thought sufficient for the agricul- 

 tural colleges to offer one or tAvo term electives in psychology or 

 pedagogy or history of education, and say that the students who 

 complete these subjects in connection with the regular four-year 

 course are j)repared to teach agriculture. The course for teachers 

 should include the essential features of both an agricultural and a 

 normal course, and these should be so brought together and combined 

 as to make a well-balanced course, sound pedagogically, and afford- 

 ing training for the mind and training for the pi'ofession of teaching. 



It may be said that such courses might now be arranged by elec- 

 tion from the subjects offered in departments of ecUication and in the 

 colleges of agriculture of some of our universities. True, but not 

 more than three universities in the country have thought this matter 

 to be of sufficient importance to warrant mention of it in their 

 catalogues. 



Nearly every young person when planning his college course takes 

 up old, well-established groups of studies or follows outlines sug- 

 gested in the college catalogue. Hence the mere announcement in 

 the catalogue of courses for the training of teachers of agriculture 

 would tend to increase the number of students in these courses, by 

 directing attention to them ; and the colleges of agriculture where 

 the necessary electives for a good normal course are now offered 

 might Avell give some attention to arranging and announcing gioups 

 of studies adapted especially to the training of teachers of agri- 

 culture. 



The colleges not now in a position to offer normal courses coidd 

 easily jjrepare foi- this work l)y each employing at least one teacher 

 of education and putting him in charge of the planning and arrange- 

 ment of the normal course, lie or his assistants would teach all pro- 

 fessional subjects in education, and the other instructors in the col- 

 lege would attend to the other college subjects as the}^ are now doing. 



The Carnegie Institution of AVashington has for several years 

 been interested in the study of problems in human nutrition, which 

 it has aided with grants. One of its first undertakings in that line 

 was in connection with the investigation carried on bv Prof. W. O. 



