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education, but as the "first sufficient recognition of stud}" and investi- 

 gation as the basis of the best success in the artis and industries. It 

 also proclaimed the duty of the National Government to promote 

 industrial education and in its results demonstrated the effectiveness 

 of governmental cooperation. The most important of the direct 

 results of this act to agriculture was the experiment station. "If the 

 agricultural college did nothing more than to establish, maintain, and 

 officer the experiment station it would be justified many times over." 

 The establishment of the agricultural colleges also resulted in the 

 strengthening and broadening of industrial education along all lines, 

 and has culminated in a great system of technical education. " It is a 

 great result of the land-grant college to have asserted and established 

 the doctrine that education in all its forms, from the lowest to the 

 highest, is a State function in which the State has the fullest rights 

 and for w^hich it must bear responsibility, sharing the privilege and 

 responsibilit}" with private corporations only as it thinks best." The 

 speaker considered State aid and control in higher education as neces- 

 sary, under present conditions, to the best national development, 

 especially as the results of this higher education thus become the 

 property of all the people. The address concluded with an eloquent 

 tribute to the memor}" and worth of the late Justin S. Morrill. 



The association expressed its appreciation of the address by a vote 

 of thanks, and directed that the Secretary of Agriculture be requested 

 to publish it as a separate. 



The report of the executive committee, presented by its chairman, 

 H. H. Goodell, called attention to the fact that the bill for the estab- 

 lishment of schools or departments of mining and metallurgy in con- 

 nection with the land-grant colleges passed the Senate, but failed to be 

 called up in the House of Eepresentatives during the last session of 

 Congress. The introduction of a similar bill into the present Congress 

 was recommended. Efforts of the committee to have all land-grant 

 colleges made designated depositories of Government publications 

 were unsuccessful. The plan for holding a summer school of graduate 

 instruction in agriculture during 1902, suggested by the Ohio State 

 University, was approved. 



The report of the bibliographer, A. C. True, noted the work of a 

 bibliographical character being done by the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, and enumerated, with explanatory notes, 44 general and partial 

 bibliographies in lines relating to agriculture which had appeared 

 during the past year. 



The report of the treasurer, E. B. Voorhees, showed that the 

 receipts during the j^ear amounted to $1,132.97 and the expenditures 

 to $1,105.40, leaving a balance of $27.57. 



The report of the committee on revision of the constitution called 

 forth a vigorous discussion. The various proposals to change the 



