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ments at the expense of entrance requirements sufficiently advanced 

 to insure thorough college work, and he believed that the land-grant 

 colleges could not consistently do less than to insist upon four years 

 of approved high-school work as a condition of entrance. 



The discussion of this paper was led by E. A. Bryan and Howard 

 Edwards. The former emphasized the fact that the entire group of 

 separate land-grant colleges and land-grant departments of State 

 universities together constitute the basis of a national system of edu- 

 cation. He believed this solidarity of interests should be fostered 

 among the institutions represented in the association, and cautioned 

 against a too narrow conception of the scope of education contem- 

 plated in the land-grant acts. For example, the teaching of agri- 

 culture in all productive lines is much further advanced than is the 

 teaching of methods for distributing and marketing farm products 

 in an economic way. 



President Edwards's contribution to this discussion was mainly 

 directed to the formulation of an answer to the question which had 

 been asked him by the president of the Carnegie Foundation : What 

 is the definite function of the separate agricultural colleges? He 

 called attention to the more restrictive language of the act of 1890 

 as compared with that of 1862, and proposed a set of resolutions 

 designed to express the understanding of the association on the sub- 

 ject of the question. See p. 507.) 



President Butterfield raised a question concerning the proper place 

 for college extension work and its director in the functions of the 

 college. President Storms held that the head of each main depart- 

 ment of the college should have general oversight of "the instruc- 

 tional, research, and extension w^ork of his department, each of these 

 phases being more particularly in the hands of an assistant, and that 

 the general director of the extension department should cooperate 

 with the other department heads and their subordinate assistants in 

 charge of extension work. 



The entrance requirements and standards for land-grant colleges 

 was presented in a paper by J. L. Snyder. He believed that en- 

 trance requirements were purely a local problem, dependent in each 

 State upon the advancement of the secondary schools within reach 

 of the people ; but that graduation requirements should be practically 

 uniform in all the colleges, and in keeping with traditional under- 

 standings in regard to the worth of academic degrees. The speaker 

 particularly^ deprecated the tendency to alter land-grant college en- 

 trance requirements in order to ineet the conditions of pension benefits 

 on the Carnegie Foundation. "As the public educational system 

 develops in each State, standards for college entrance will advance. 

 They should be sufficiently high to serve as a stimulus to secondary 



