CONVENTION OF COLLEGES AND EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 11 



At the flual session, a report was given by President Brown Ayres of Ten- 

 nessee, for the executive committee, on the provisions and status of the Smith- 

 Hughes bill for federal aid to vocational etlucation, including an exi^lanatiou of 

 the work of the Federal Commission on Vocational Education (E. S. R., 31, 

 p. 401). Commissioner Claxton and others also discussed the scope and details 

 of the bill. The association declared itself in favor of federal aid to vocational 

 education along the general lines of the bill, and instructed the executive com- 

 mittee to cooperate with other agencies in perfecting the measure and aiding 

 in its passage. 



Various measures relative to military instruction in the land-grant colleges 

 were referred to the executive committee for consideration. An engineering 

 division was established in the college section, the officers of which are to 

 make provision for either separate or joint programs. 



A series of recommendations as to the title pages, pagination, and similar 

 matters in college and station publications was presented from a committee 

 of the agricultural section of the American Library Association. The executive 

 committee reported favorably as to these recommendations, and commended 

 them to the various institutions for their consideration. 



The officers elected for the coming year were as follows : As president, Presi- 

 dent E. A. Bryan, of Washington ; vice presidents. President J. H. Worst, of 

 North Dakota, Dean T. F. Hunt, of California, Director C. D. Woods, of Maine, 

 Director P. H. Eolfs, of Florida, and President C. A. Lory, of Colorado; 

 secretary-treasurer, Dean J. L. Hills, of Vermont ; bibliographer, Dr. A. C. 

 True, of Washington, D. C. ; executive committee. President W. O. Thompson, 

 of Ohio, chairman, President H. J. Waters, of Kansas, President Brown Ayres, 

 of Tennessee, Director W. H. Jordan, of New York, and Dean H. L. Russell, 

 of Wisconsin. 



The following were chosen officers of sections : College section, President 

 H. J. Waters, of Kansas, chairman, and President W. M. Eiggs, of South 

 Carolina, secretary; station section. Dean E. A. Burnett, of Nebraska, chair- 

 man, Director W. R. Dodsou, of Louisiana, secretary, and W. H. Beal, of 

 Washington, D. C, recording secretary; extension section. Director R. D. 

 Hetzel, of Oregon, chairman. Director C. R. Titlow, of West Virginia, secre- 

 tary, and Prof. John Hamilton, of Pennsylvania, recording secretary. 



The retiring members of standing committees were all reappointed, and a 

 vacancy in the committee on extension organization and policy filled by the 

 selection of Director W. R. Dodsou, of Louisiana. A special committee to 

 consider agricultural terminology was also authorized. 



The time and place of the next meeting were left as usual with the execu- 

 tive committee, and since announced for August 11 to 13, at Berkeley, Cal. 

 The proceedings of the association will be published, but, because of the heavy 

 outlay, in condensed form by the use of abstracts of papers and the elimina- 

 tion of oral discussions. 



SECTIOX ON COLLEGE WORK AND ADMINISTRATION. 



In the college section, the initial subject was The Relation of the Agricul- 

 tural College to Instruction in Agriculture and Home Economics in Secondary 

 and Rural Schools, and What the College Can Do to Promote General Rural 

 School Improvement. 



President E. T. Fairchild, of New Hampshire, reported on the basis of replies 

 from 30 agricultural colleges that the means most frequently adopted for aiding 

 secondary and elementary instruction were through summer schools for teach- 

 ers, boys' and girls' clubs, leaflets on agriculture, home economics, and nature 

 Study, correspondence courses, and demonstration plats. He suggested that the 



