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At a joint conference of the college representatives, superintendents, and 

 tciichers, home work with school ci'edit was discussed. The leader of this joint 

 conference, J. F. Marsh, of West Vlrginin. submitted a general home-project plan 

 aiming to give outside activities sullicient cultural value to warrant school 

 credit and thus bring about a closer I'olation between the home and the school. 

 The plan set forth methods for using the home, the garden, the farm, the shop, 

 and the factory as laboratories, thus making the school a factor in community 

 progress. 



The Southern Educational Council considered (1) whnt the school is, and 

 (2) what it shall undertake. Under these general propositions one of the topics 

 considered was what should be the relation of the country teacher to the home 

 and extension work in agriculture and home making. Among the topics con- 

 sidered by the teachers' conference m:iy be mentioned a plan for making the 

 club an integral part of the work of both town and country schools, including 

 (1) a boys' corn club, (2) a girls' gardening club, (3) an arts and crafts club, 

 with related exercises in reading, writing, drawing, etc. 



The theme for discussion at the college conference was The lieadjustment of 

 Ideals, Courses, and Methods to Develop Leaders. In discussing The Relation 

 of the College Curriculum to Human Life and Work, Dr. A. C. True, of this 

 Office, said among other things : 



" In a general way agriculture, mechanic arts, commerce, and the household 

 arts are the general terms under which the industries may be grouped. In the 

 elementary school the child can easily be brought into contact with materials 

 and principles dealt with in the industrial world through simple objective in- 

 struction in nature study, elementary agriculture, wood and metal working, 

 cooking, sewing, playing at store-keeping, etc. In the secondary school he can 

 go further in the technique and principles of the more fundamental arts. In 

 the college he should leam something of the great diversity of the industries, the 

 opportunities they offer for the application of scientific principles and for 

 original research, their relations to each other and to the professions and fine 

 arts, and the economic, sociological, ethical, governmenral and other factors 

 involved in their proper development, or in general their true place and func- 

 tions in the body politic. 



" In such studies agriculture, the most fundamental of the arts and much 

 more comprehensive la its range of activities and relations than most people 

 think, may well have a prominent place. The narrow way in which most college 

 men, including those brought up on farms, think and speak about agriculture 

 is to me very interesting and deplorable. It seems to mean to them merely the 

 raising of a few crops, e. g., corn, hay or beans, or a few animals, e. g., pigs or 

 cows. They seem never to have considered the wide range of even American 

 agriculture, the many sciences to which it is closely related, the great economic, 

 governmental, and sociological interests involved in the development of our 

 agriculture and our rural communities. Or if they have incidentally thought of 

 some of these things they have little appreciation of their real importance and 

 significauce. And this nai-rowness of outlook of college men pertains also to 

 other industries." 



Necrology.— Elisha Wilson Morse, editor of the sections of animal production 

 and dairying of Experiment Station Record from 1908-1013, and subsequently 

 engaged in editorial work in the Dairy Division of this Department, died at 

 Washington, D. C, April IS. Professor Morse was born at Brockton, Mass., 

 Axjril 20, 1S66, and attended the Massachusetts Agricultural College for a 

 short time. He was graduated from the Bussey Institution of Harvard Uni- 

 versity in 1S97, and remained there until 1908 as instructor in natural history. 



