CONVENTION OF ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN ACRICULTURAL 

 COLLEGES AND EXPERIMENT STATIONS, 1910. 



The twenty-fourth animal convention of the Association of Ameri- 

 can Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations was held at 

 Washington, D. C., November lG-18, 1010. It was unusually well 

 attended, representatives being present from the agricultural colleges 

 and experiment stations in all of the States and Territories except 

 Idaho, Oklahoma, and Texas, as well as from the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture and the U. S. Bureau of Education. This convention 

 was one of several of interest from the standpoint of agricultural 

 education and research held in Washington about the same time. 

 Accounts of some of these have already appeared in the January 

 issue of the Record. 



A varied and interesting progi'am of papers, addresses, and re- 

 ports bearing upon the organization and administration of college, 

 station, and extension W'Ork was presented. 



President W. J. Kerr, of the Oregon Agricultural College, wdio 

 presided, set forth in a forceful address the substantial progress and 

 creditable achievements of the agricultural colleges in the face of 

 very great difficulties, and vigorously refuted recent criticisms of the 

 work and position of these institutions. 



President J. K. Patterson, of Kentucky, in an eloquent and 

 scholarly address, presented in retrospect the industrial development 

 and the progress in industrial education during the past fifty years. 



Captain M. J. Lenihan, as the representative of the War Depart- 

 ment, presented a paper in which he discussed the relations of that 

 Department to the land-grant colleges, and emphasized the value of 

 military instruction to the student, to the college, and to the Nation. 



N. Kaumanns, German agricultural attache to the United States, 

 read a paper dealing with certain aspects of American agriculture 

 as seen through German eyes. The executive committee was re- 

 quested to arrange for the separate publication of this address. 



Dr. A. C. True in his report as bibliographer dealt with agencies 

 and methods now employed in the publication of the results of scien- 

 tific research under official, semiofficial, and private auspices. 



The report of the committee on graduate study, presented by H. P. 

 Armsby, chairman, dealt mainly wnth the Graduate School of Agri- 

 culture held at the Iowa State College, July 4-29, a report of Avhich 

 was presented by A. C. True, dean of the school. This report showed 

 a larger attendance (207) at Ames than at any previous session of the 

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