CONVENTION OF COLLEGES AND EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 511 



knowledge or of fundamental faith in a beneficent Providence, and 

 a resultant feeling that the individual must shoulder the responsi- 

 bility of thinking for the race."' 



At one of the evening sessions L. H. Bailey, by special request, 

 briefly described the work of the Commission on Country Life. 



Officers were chosen for the ensuing year as follows: President, 

 "W. J. Kerr, of Oregon; vice-presidents, H. J. Waters, of Kansas; 

 VI. P. Brooks, of Massachusetts; C. A. Lory, of Colorado; P. H. 

 Tvolfs, of Florida ; and L. Foster, of New Mexico ; secretary-treasurer, 

 J. L. Hills, of Vermont; bibliographer, A. C. True, of Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



The annual vacancies in standing committees were filled as fol- 

 loAvs: Committee on instruction in agriculture, J. F. Duggar, of Ala- 

 bama, and W. E. Stone, of Indiana ; committee on graduate stud}', 

 W. O. Thomi^son, of Ohio, and Brown Ayres, of Tennessee ; commit- 

 tee on extension work, A. M. Soule, of Georgia, and E. A. Burnett, 

 of Nebraska; committee on experiment station organization and 

 policy, M. A. Scovell, of Kentucky, and L. G. Carpenter, of Colorado. 



The following officers of sections were chosen : College section, S. 

 Avery, of Nebraska, chairman, and W. D. Gibbs, of New Hampshire, 

 secretarv; station section, F. B. Linfield, of Montana, chairman, and 

 H. L. Russell, of Wisconsin, secretary; section on extension work, 

 A. M. Soule, of Georgia, chairman, and G. I. Christie, of Indiana, 

 secretary. 



SECTION ON COLLEGE WORK AND ADMINISTRATION. 



The following topics were discussed in this section: (1) The Dis- 

 tinctive Work of the Land-Grant Colleges — Their Function, Scope, 

 and Organization; (2) Entrance Requirements and Standards for 

 Land-Grant Colleges; (3) Function of Land-Grant Colleges; 

 (-t) How Can the Agricultural Colleges Best Serve the Farmers in 

 Solving Rural Problems. 



The first topic was presented in a paper by A. B. Storms. He be- 

 lieved that the independently-established colleges were more dis- 

 tinctly typical of the norm contemplated in the original Morrill 

 Law than those established in connection with vState universities, and 

 that there are good pedagogic and administrative reasons for main- 

 taining them as separate institutions. In reference to organization 

 he favored a strong organic unity of all the college departments, as 

 against a degree of independence that encourages '' department pro- 

 vincialism." The ability of men, especially of the heads of co- 

 ordinate departments, to work and fit with other men without fric- 

 tion, was emphasized as a necessary requisite in the working com- 

 promise that must always be made between technical and administra- 

 tive efficiency. The speaker deprecated the zeal for large enroll- 



