CONVENTION OF COLLEGES AND EXPEETMENT STATIONS. Ill 



Ohio; E. E. Sparks, of Pennsylvania ; D. H. Hill, of North Carolina; 

 W. H. Jordan, of New York ; and C. F. Curtiss, of Iowa. 



The vacancies occurring in the standing committees were filled 

 as follows : Committee on instruction in agriculture, H. J. Waters, of 

 Kansas, and H. C. AVhite, of Georgia ; committee on graduate study, 

 H. J. Webber, of New York, and E. Davenport, of Illinois; com- 

 mittee on extension work, W. C. Latta, of Indiana, and C. F. Curtiss, 

 of Iowa ; and committee on experiment station organization and 

 policy, C. E. Thorne, of Ohio (for two years), H. J. Wheeler, of 

 Ehode Island, and E. B. Voorhees, of New Jersey. The personnel 

 of the new committee on college organization and policy will be as 

 folloAvs: For three years, W. E. Stone, of Indiana, chairman, and 

 A. R. Hill, of Missouri ; for two j^ears, W. D. Gibbs, of New Hamp- 

 shire, and el. M. Hamilton, of Montana ; and for one year, S. Avery, 

 of Nebraska, and J. C. Hardy, of Mississippi. 



The following were chosen officers of sections: College section, 

 W. D. Gibbs, of New Hampshire, chairman, and J. F. Duggar, of 

 Alabama, secretary; station section, H. L. Russell, of Wisconsin, 

 chairman, and W. H. Beal, of this Office, secretary; section on exten- 

 sion work, P. G. Holden, of Iowa, chairman, and Alva Agee, of 

 Pennsylvania, secretary. 



An invitation was extended by Dean Davenport to hold the next 

 convention of the association at Urbana, 111., in connection with the 

 semicentennial celebration of the university. 



SECTION ON COLLEGE WORK AND ADMINISTRATION. 



The four topics discussed in this section were entrance require- 

 ments to college courses, correlation of secondary and short courses 

 with the four years' course, a plan of university organization, and 

 the administrative relations between the board of trustees, the col- 

 lege president, and the dean and director. 



The first topic was discussed in a paper by H. J. Waters, who be- 

 lieved that as far as the quantity of work required — the number of 

 units for college entrance — the land-grant colleges should follow the 

 lead of other colleges, but as to the kind of work he would recommend 

 a change. He pointed out that the college preparatory work now 

 demanded is a serious burden on the country high school, owing to 

 the increasing demand upon these schools for more practical courses — 

 greater attention to agriculture, domestic science, and manual arts; 

 and he recommended that the land-grant colleges offer liberal credits 

 to vocational subjects for entrance to any college course. Considera- 

 tion should be given, not only to the college courses, but also to the 

 needs of the pupils in schools below college grade. For this reason 

 courses should be encouraged in the seventh and eighth grades of 



