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schools, but not so far advanccMl as to create a gap between the public 

 school system and institutions of higher learning." 



"\V, E. Stone heart il}^ indorsed the main features of this paper, and 

 emphasized further the view that the high schools of a State have 

 an independent dut}^ toward their constituencies, as finishing schools 

 for those who do not go on to college. He believed that " the colleges 

 should adjust their requirements to what is proper for the high 

 schools to do." 



President MacLean emphasized the necessity of frequent readjust- 

 ment between the school, whether secondary or collegiate, and its 

 constituency. The uniformity which has become almost standard 

 throughout the country must be tempered with a variable content in 

 the curriculum which is specially adapted to local conditions. 



Under the third topic, H. J. Waters discussed the Function of 

 Land-Grant Colleges in Promoting Collegiate and Graduate Instruc- 

 tion in Agriculture Outside of the Course of the Graduate School. 

 In a rapid survey of the development of college work in recent years, 

 he pointed out the fact that the pressure of attendance and of outside 

 calls for information had seriously hindered the development of 

 superior teaching and further research. " We have been giving the 

 world the benefit of the discoveries of science for the past fifteen or 

 twenty years; . . . but to do this alone or even chiefly is fatal to 

 progress. The farmer will soon catch up with the college teacher, 

 and then all opportunity for leadership is lost." The speaker held 

 that upon the experiment station devolves the duty of " making an 

 exact science of agriculture." Higher standards of teaching will 

 now be required, as well as better equipment for research. He be- 

 lieved that the resources of the experiment station should be utilized 

 in developing graduate work, and gave illustrations of how this had 

 been done in his own college. The paper closed with the suggestion 

 that the DeiDartment of Agriculture demand graduate preparation 

 for its employees, in order effectively to encourage graduate study 

 in the colleges. 



In discussing this paper, L. H. Bailey emphasized the thought that 

 careful discrimination must be used in determining what men should 

 be permitted to take graduate work, so as to eliminate those who have 

 a history of failure or inefficiency. He would allow no station work- 

 ers to have any stated part in undergraduate instruction, but w^ould 

 use their abilities in graduate teaching germane to the lines of their 

 own research work. 



The second division of this topic. The Function of the Land- 

 Grant College in Promoting Agricultural Education in Secondary 

 Schools, Avas presented by E. A. Burnett. He maintained that the 

 college can not escape the responsibility of directing the lines along 



