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labored for the development of the institution along- more advanced 

 pedagogic lines as rapidly as the funds at its disposal would permit. 



President Goodell was extremely fond of books and appreciated 

 their value to the student and the investigator. He was the leading- 

 spirit in the building up of the college library, devoting a great amount 

 of time to this work and serving voluntarily as librarian for many 

 years. The result was the gathering together of a large and well- 

 selected library, systematically arranged and catalogued, and excep- 

 tionally rich in agricultural writings, which will remain a monument 

 to his memory for } T ears to come. 



Always keenly alive to the importance of experimentation in agri- 

 culture, he imbued his coworkers with the spirit of investigation, and 

 when the Hatch Act was passed he became director of the college sta- 

 tion, which he organized. A few years later, when the college and 

 State stations were combined, he retained the directorship, which he 

 held to the time of his death. In this position he stood for a high order 

 of work and a clear, condensed, and lucid presentation in its published 

 form. His duties as director were necessarily quite largely executive. 

 but he gave special attention to the editorial supervision of the publi- 

 cations and to the economical administration of the funds. 



With the organization of the agricultural colleges and experiment 

 stations of the country into an association. President Goodell became 

 a conspicuous figure in the national association, and was prominently 

 identified in all the movements supported by it during the first fifteen 

 \<ars of its existence. He was a member of its executive committee 

 from 1888 to 1902, and for the last eight years of that period was 

 chairman. As a member of that committee he had a prominent part 

 in securing the legislation leading to the establishment of agricultural 

 experiment stations in every State and Territory, and the further 

 endowment of the land-grant colleges. 



As chairman of the executive committee he devoted much time to 

 the business of the association and to looking after the interests of the 

 institutions represented in it. He was conservative in his action, and 

 his management helped to economize the time of the association and to 

 make its meetings effective. He urged a strict interpretation of the 

 Morrill and Hatch acts, and a careful use of the privileges conferred 

 by them. He pointed out the dangers to the college and station funds 

 of legislation which reduced the income from the sale of public lands; 

 and his committee was instrumental in securing the passage in 1900 of 

 a clause providing that if at any time the proceeds from the sale of 

 public lands should be insufficient to meet the annual appropriations 

 to the colleges and experiment stations, the same should be paid from 

 an}' funds in the Treasury, thus placing these funds on a sure foundation. 



President Goodell was president of the Association of American 



