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of both pure and applied science. The other courses were so ar- 

 ranged that the students naturally divided into smaller groups along 

 the lines of their chief special interests. 



The faculty numbered forty-eight, in addition to six speakers at 

 special conferences on general questions relating to agricultural edu- 

 cation and research. It included seven officers of the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, fifteen members of the faculty of the JMichigan 

 Agricultural College, and eighteen professors and experts from four- 

 teen other agricultural colleges and experiment stations. In addi- 

 tion, lecture courses and seminars were given by Dr. T. N. Carver, 

 professor of economics of Harvard University; Dr. IT. C. Sherman, 

 professor of food chemistry, Columbia University; Dr. L. B. Mendel, 

 professor of physiological chemistry, Yale University; Dr. Oscar 

 Riddle, research associate of the Carnegie Institution of Washington ; 

 and H. N. Ogden, professor of sanitary engineering, Cornell Uni-, 

 versity. 



Many interesting and valuable matters were also brought out fromi 

 an international viewpoint in the lectures given by Dr. E. J. Russell, 

 Director of the Rothamsted Experiment Station, England; Dr. F. H. 

 A. Marshall, professor of agricultural physiology, Cambridge Uni- 

 versity^, England; and Dr. Oscar Loew, of the Hygienic Institute, 

 Munich, Germany. 



The total enrollment of students at the close of the session was one 

 hundred and eighty, including forty-one women, who were also 

 ejirolled in the Graduate School of Home Economics. This latter 

 school was under the genernl management of the American Home 

 Economics Association, and for the first time prolonged its session 

 to cover four weeks. As heretofore it was conducted in close affilia- 

 tion with the Graduate School of Agriculture. The students in both 

 schools came from thirt^'-four States and Porto Eico, Canada, Rus- 

 sia, China, and Japan. 



The public opening exercises were held on the evening of July 3 

 in the auditorium of the Agricultural Building of the college, and 

 iwere well attended. Dr. H, P. Armslw, chairman of the committee 

 on graduate study of the association, presided and made an intro- 

 ductory address. An address of welcome was made by President 

 Snyder on behalf of the Michigan AgTicultural College. Dean R. S. 

 Shaw, of the agricultural division of this college, spoke on the leading 

 features of Michigan agriculture. Dean Maude Gilchrist, of the 

 home economics division, spoke on the work of the Graduate School 

 of Plome Economics. Dean True, of the Graduate School of Agri- 

 culture, gave a brief summarj' of the history of the school during the 

 decade of its existence, and pointed out in a general way the devel- 

 opment of American agriculture and agricultural education and 

 research during that period. The substance of his remarks on the 

 latter topic are as follows: 



