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the new section reflects honor and credit upon the association, and 

 becomes a vital a^iency for the further " advancement of science." 

 A great opportunity is afforded in the new setting to win recogni- 

 tion for the subject, and to attract to it the men of broad scientific 

 training it needs for its steady advancement. 



The inauguration of the new section was particularly auspicious. 

 The president of the association. Dr. Charles ^Y. Eliot, honored it 

 by presiding at the opening of the meeting, and in a brief address 

 expressed his approval of the new section and his interest and 

 confidence in the great work for agriculture. 



Dr. Eliot thought it was high time that we began to attend to 

 the building up of American agriculture, and making it a higher 

 expression of American efficiency. He saw in the teaching of agi'i- 

 culture an opportunity for furthering a reform clearly needed in 

 American education, namely, the devotion of much more time to 

 the teaching of the natural sciences in the schools. This, he de- 

 clared, is the great reform needed in American education. The popu- 

 lar interest aroused in agricultural teaching offers an entering wedge 

 in this direction, and gives hope for the accomplishment of even 

 greater reforms. 



Country life development he pronounced " one of the greatest 

 humanitarian movements in this .age." Our race can not endure 

 urban life and the factory system, he said; the ill effects of it have 

 already been seen. " Hence anything that leads men out into the 

 country where they ma}^ live a wholesome existence is contributing 

 to a necessary humanitarian movement." 



This was a happy introduction to Prof. L. H. Baile5^'s vice- 

 presidential address on The Place of Research and of Publicity in the 

 Forthcoming Country Life Development. The address was essen- 

 tially a plea for democracy, approached from the standpoint of the 

 public service institutions for agriculture, and especially the new 

 national work of agricultural extension. 



Taking up the history of the man on the land. Professor Bailey 

 showed how in the nineteenth century " he began to be recognized 

 politically^," and institutions were developed on public funds "to 

 train the farmer and to give him voice." Out of this, the great 

 American system for agricultural teaching, investigation, and more 

 recenth^^ for extension work, has grown. A strong plea was made for 

 maintaining the necessary balance and check in the future develop- 

 ment, and for meeting the demand for careful inquiry. 



" There must be a certain relation or equation between the research 

 effort and the teaching effort," he said. "The enlargement of one 

 ought to be conditioned on the enlargement of the other; and cer- 



