1917] EDITORIAL. 611 



the additional member to be selected by the extension section, was 

 offered for consideration at the next annual meeting. 



The section officers included for college work and administration, 

 President E. C. Perisho, of South Dakota, chairman, and President 

 R. D. Hetzel, of New Hampshire, secretary; in the station section. 

 Dean W. M. Jardine, of Kansas, chairman, Director W. P. Brooks, 

 of Massachusetts, secretary, and Mr. W. H. Beal, of the States 

 Relations Service, recording secretary ; and in the extension section. 

 Director C. R. Titlow, of West Virginia, chairman. Dean E, C. 

 Johnson, of Kansas, secretary, and Mr, Bradford Knapp, of the 

 States Relations Ser\dce, recording secretary. The engineering divi- 

 sion elected President W. M. Riggs, of South Carolina, chairman, 

 and Dean A. A, Potter, of Kansas, secretary ; and the home econom- 

 ics section. Miss Isabel Bevier, of Illinois, chairman, and Miss Mary 

 Sweeny, of Kentucky, secretary. 



The 1917 convention was thus an unusually interesting gathering, 

 quite different in many respects from any which had preceded it. It 

 revealed how closely the war has been brought home to the land- 

 grant institutions, depleting the faculty and student body, interrupt- 

 ing many well established projects, and compelling a redirecting of 

 their entire program and point of view. More strongly, however, 

 did it indicate how largely the Nation is relying on these institutions 

 in the present emergency, and how important are the functions which 

 are theirs to fulfill. It put this great body of public service insti- 

 tutions, already conspicuous for a season's successful endeavor, for- 

 mally on record as enlisted for the war, and with their full resources 

 mobilized in the national service. 



