1102 EXPEEIMENT STATION RECOED. 



The total enrollment of students at the close of the school was 164, 

 of whom 15 were registered in the Graduate School of Home 

 Economics, which was in session at the college of agriculture July 

 13-21, and conducted in close affiliation with the Graduate School of 

 Agriculture. This enrollment was a material increase over the previ- 

 ous sessions, 75 students being registered in 1902 and 131 in 1906. 

 The school was an even more representative body, with students from 

 37 States and the District of Columbia, in addition to 9 students from 

 Canada, 2 from China, and 1 from India. The character of the 

 school as an institution for advanced study was also clearly ajDparent, 

 more than two-thirds of the students occupying positions in the agri- 

 cultural colleges and experiment stations, including at least forty 

 heads of departments. The membership was further augmented by 

 the instruction corj)s of 78 to a total of 242, If to this be added the 

 large number of visitors in attendance at the various conferences held 

 during the session, it may be safely estimated that at least 350 per- 

 sons came into direct association with the school. In the words of 

 Dean True at the closing meeting, " j^robably never before had there 

 been gathered together for so extended a period so large and enthusi- 

 astic a body of scientific men interested in agriculture." 



The public opening exercises of the school were held on the evening 

 of July 8 in the auditorimn of the college of agriculture and were 

 numerously attended by members of the university community, 

 teachers in attendance at the summer session of the university, and 

 members of the graduate school. 



Addresses of welcome Avere made by President J. G. Schurman 

 on behalf of Cornell University and Director W. H. Jordan on behalf 

 of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station. In the opinion 

 of Director Jordan the present session of the graduate school was 

 esj)ecially important because our agricultural colleges and experi- 

 ment stations, having passed through a period when their material 

 equipment and resources were greatly enlarged and strengthened, are 

 now giving much greater attention to the character of their personnel. 

 A great demand for better trained men has therefore arisen, and if 

 is the province of this school to encourage and stimulate the more 

 thorough training of agricultural teachers and investigators. 



President J. L. Snyder, of the Michigan Agricultural College, as 

 president of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and 

 Experiment Stations, responded to the addresses of welcome on 

 behalf of the association and spoke briefly of the relations of the as- 

 sociation to the graduate school. He also emphasized the importance 

 of good teaching in the agricultural colleges and the need that the 

 agricultural specialists employed as teachers should study pedagogy 

 and adapt their instruction to the requirements of different grades 



