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An invitation was received forthe association to hold its next meet- 

 ing at Portland during the Lewis and Clarke Exposition. 



The association adjourned after the morning- session of the third day 

 and proceeded by special train to the State College at Ames, where a 

 most interesting and profitable afternoon was spent in looking over the 

 buildings and equipment of this institution, especially its agricultural 

 and engineering departments. Here the large amount of live stock 

 kept primarily for instruction purposes — over 30 head of horses 

 of various breeds and types, the new pavilion for stock and grain 

 judging, the well-equipped new department of farm mechanics, the 

 commodious soils laboratory, the new dairy building in process of 

 construction, and the plans for the new agricultural building to cost 

 from $250,000 to $300,000, typified the rapid advance which is making 

 in the material equipment for agricultural education, which will place 

 that department on a par with engineering at the better institutions. 



The officers elected for the ensuing year were as follows: 



President, E. B. Voorhees, of New Jerse} T ; vice-presidents, J. C. Hardy 

 of Mississippi, K. L. Butterfield of Rhode Island, C. D. Woods of 

 Maine, E. P. Nichols of Kansas, and E. Davenport of Illinois; secre- 

 tary and treasurer, J. L. Hills, of Vermont; bibliographer, A. C. True, 

 of Washington, D. C; executive committee, H. C. White of Georgia, 

 J. L. Snyder of Michigan, W. H. Jordan of New York, C. F. Curtiss 

 of Iowa, and L. H. Bailey of New York. 



Section on college work and administration. — Chairman, R. W. 

 Stimson, of Conneetieut; secretary, K. L. Butterfield, of Rhode Island. 



Section on experiment station work. — Chairman, H. J. Patterson, of 

 Maryland; secretary, M. A. Scovell, of Kentucky. 



SECTION ON COLLEGE WORK AND ADMINISTRATION. 



The question as to how far the land-grant institutions may or should 

 engage in teaching elementary subjects not generally recognized as 

 belonging to the college curriculum was discussed at length, and brought 

 out a quite marked difference of opinion. The discussion was opened 

 by a paper on this subject by President W r . O. Thompson, who defended 

 and justified those colleges of agriculture which have found it neces- 

 sary to begin their elementary instruction quite low down, owing to 

 lack of proper training in the public schools, and also commended the 

 short courses. From the standpoint of the Morrill acts, he assumed 

 that this elementary instruction was quite within the limits of the 

 law, and granting this, he held that the manner of the teaching was 

 wholly a matter of local jurisdiction. 



In discussing this paper, President R. H. Jesse took the opposite 

 ground, and maintained that the use of Federal funds for secondary 

 education was a misappropriation, since the money was given for 

 collegiate instruction. He disapproved of the establishment of agricul- 



