TWELFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE ASSOCIATION OF 



AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES AND 



EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



W. H. Beal, 



Office of Experiment Stations. 



The twelfth annual convention of the Association of American Agri- 

 cultural Colleges and Experiment Stations was held at Washington, 

 D. C, [November 15-17, 1898. All sections of the country were repre- 

 sented, there being 154 delegates and visitors in attendance. Arizona, 

 Kansas, Oregon, and Texas were the only States which did not send 

 delegates. 



GENERAL SESSIONS. 



The convention was called to order and presided over by the presi- 

 dent of the Association, H. C. White. 



A report of the executive committee, briefly reviewing the work of 

 that committee during the past year, was submitted by the chairman, 

 H. H. Goodell. 



The usual section reports were submitted by the chairmen of sec- 

 tions, as follows : College work, Alston Ellis ; agriculture and chemistry, 

 K. J. Eedding ; horticulture and botany, S. T. Maynaid ; and entomology, 

 J. B. Smith. No report was received from the section on mechanic arts. 



The address of the president, H. C. White, was a scholarly presenta- 

 tion of the purposes and potentialities of the Association, showing the 

 breadth and strength of the scientific and industrial education offered 

 by the land-grant colleges, and pointing out how such institutions may 

 be made to produce the "scholar" just as truly as schools built on 

 classical foundations. 



"The industries whose fruits satisfy the material needs of man which, if you 

 please, accumulate his wealth, which regulate his commerce and direct his trade, 

 are no longer exclusively or best served by the unremitting muscular energy of toil- 

 ing millions, nor yet by high efficiency of manual skill. They have come to involve 

 in their prosecution intellectual abilities of the highest order and become not only 

 thereby fit occupation in activity for him who is to be the scholar but, indeed, unre- 

 munerative and unadapted to those lacking some part of scholarly training. . . . 

 The intellectual training which shall best serve the application of intellectual 

 power to industrial pursuits is not yet systematized, has not yet been given a sat- 

 isfactory form to serve for pedagogic purposes. To give it such form, to fit it to 

 the needs and the uses of the great masses of those who, in the nature of things, 

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