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C. W. Hickman, assistants in animal husbandry; A. R. Haas and J. B. Demaree, 

 assistants in botany; II. R. Kraybill, assistant chemist; and Karl J. Seulke, 

 teaching fellow in animal husbandry. 



Rhode Is! nd College and Station. — R B. Cooley has been appointed head of 

 the department of animal husbandry in the college and has entered upon his 

 duties. Miss Alabel Campbell, of the Illinois Wesleyan University, has been 

 appointed head of the home economics department, vice Miss Sarah W. Landes, 

 resigned. Laurence S. Crosby (Harvard, 1913) has been appointed chemist iu 

 the station. 



Sonth Carolina College and Station. — F. J. Crider, of the North Carolina 

 College, has been appointed associate professor of horticulture and associate 

 horticulturist. J. N. Hook, secretary and librarian of the station since its 

 organization, died August 26. 



Washington College and Station. — Recent additions to the staff include 

 Charles A. Magoon as associate professor of botany in the college and assistant 

 bacteriologist in the station; Horace Woolman assistant plant pathologist in 

 the station ; and Charles K. McWilliams, formerly of Stanford University, as- 

 sistant chemist in the station, vice W. L. Hadlock, whose resignation has been 

 previously noted. 



Wisconsin University and Station. — Dr. S. M. Babcock has retired after 25 

 years' active service, becoming professor emeritus. Andrew W. Hopkins, editor 

 of the Wisconsin Farmer, has been appointed agricultural editor and professor 

 of agricultural journalism. 



Wyoming University and Station. — New appointments include C. J. Oviatt as 

 extension professor of agriculture and state leader in farm management and 

 demonstration ; A. E. Bowman of the Utah College as extension professor of 

 agriculture and assistant state leader; and S. K. Loy as professor of agricul- 

 tural chemistry as well as research chemist. 



Agriculture at the National Education Association. — At the annual meeting 

 of the National Education Association, held at Salt Lake City July 7 to 11, 

 considerable attention was given to agricultural education and school gardens. 



Agriculture Within Schools was the principal theme discussed at the opening 

 session of the department of rural and agricultural education, held jointly 

 with the American Nature-Study Society and the School Garden Association 

 of America. Josiah Main, agricultural instructor in the Western Kansas State 

 Normal School, took as his topic How the Adoption of a Course of Study in 

 Agriculture and Related Subjects Would Help the Public Schools. He pointed 

 out that the preparatory and cultural value of agriculture as a high-school 

 subject is being unnecessarily handicapped by the bewildering diversity shown 

 in agricultural courses of study. He claimed that the utilitarian value may be 

 as easily secured by conforming to a course of study uniform throughout the 

 country as by permitting each school to make a random course, and that such 

 uniformity would make possible a standardization that would eliminate freak 

 specialties and unbalanced courses. In addition he advocated the compilation 

 of a comprehensive set of agricultural texts of high-school grade, each devoted 

 to a single topic, and conforming to specifications furnished by experts of the 

 association. From such approved texts, published in bulletin form, each school 

 might, by arranging them in a seasonal order, including all of the prescribed 

 subjects and electing others to suit local or state requirements, build up a 

 standard course of study. 



J. H. Paul, of the Utah State Normal School, having for his topic In What 

 Way Can the Nature-Study Movement Be of Assistance to Agricultural Teach- 

 ing and Social-Center Work for Rural Communities, presented reasons for 

 making a study of the forest and shade trees a part of the regular school 



