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grant Colleges to Meet the War Emergencies of the Nation, main- 

 tained that " no portion of our people responded more quickly or 

 more intelligently than did the men and women of the land-grant 

 colleges. From every one of these institutions there was sent at once 

 to State and Federal authorities not only assurance of loyalty but the 

 free offer of men, military departments, laboratories, machine shops, 

 experiment plats, engineering plants, agricultural workers, and the 

 entire staff of our extension divisions.'' This service took the form 

 of cooperation with State and Federal governments, assistance in the 

 production and conservation of food materials, the work of the ex- 

 tension divisions and experiment stations, aid rendered along military 

 lines, the offering of special emergency courses, and many forms of 

 individual aid by students, faculty, and alumni. 



Appreciation of the part played by the land-grant institutions 

 along military lines was voiced by Major Clark, representing the 

 Adjutant-Generars Office of the War Department, who specially 

 commended the work of the men entering the officers' training camps; 

 and by President James of the University of Illinois, who drew atten- 

 tion to some of the potentialities of these institutions as military 

 assets. Maj. David wS. White, of the Veterinary Corps of the U. S. 

 Army, in a discussion of the organization and workings of this 

 branch of the service, indicated the substantial aid rendered by many 

 institutions in supplying competent veterinarians. 



Interest in past achievements of the colleges and stations, however, 

 was far overshadowed by the evidence of their desire to serve the 

 Nation in the most effective way possible in its present and future 

 needs. The program was, therefore, constructive rather than remi- 

 niscent, and dealt quite largely with ways and means for immediate 

 application. For example, in addition to papers already referred to. 

 President Soule, of Georgia, took up in the college section the question 

 of how the land-grant colleges may be organized to serve the Govern- 

 ment in the war emergency, and the engineering and home economics 

 divisions considered modifications in their respective curricula to 

 meet the emergency conditions. 



As would be expected, special interest centered in the developments 

 along the line of extension work. The Federal program for extension 

 work during the war period was outlined by Dr. A. C. True. The 

 program suggested for the agricultural colleges and the Department 

 of Agriculture included as its principal items the full maintenance 

 of the food supply and its conservation, the preservation of a perma- 

 nent and safe sytsem of agriculture, the rendering of assistance in the 

 solution of such problems as farm labor and the handling and market- 

 ing of farm products, and assisting the Federal Government in spe- 



