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tion to take more active and appreciative interest in the Graduate 

 School of Agriculture. This school is setting standards and develop- 

 ing ideals. These standards should be propagated everywhere. They 

 are capable of greatly increasing the effectiveness of education b}?^ 

 means of agriculture, and of extending its application. The com- 

 mittee thinks that every land-grant institution must accept the 

 responsibility of furtliering this enterprise. Moreover, it is also con- 

 vinced that no land-grant institution can now expect to do the best 

 work in education unless at least some of its staff actively participate 

 in these graduate schools; and the administration of the institution 

 must also officialh^ recognize the type of work for which the graduate 

 school stands. If for no other reason, the colleges should feel the 

 obligation of cooperating in these schools for the purpose of increas- 

 ing the supply of available teachers of agriculture. 



" In short, the committee feels that the graduate school idea is now 

 established, and far beyond the experimental stage. All the land- 

 grant colleges must now recognize it.'' 



Attention was also called to the injury which may result to the 

 school b}^ the holding of any considerable number of meetings of 

 other organizations during the period of its sessions, a tendency 

 toward which was apparent at the last session. The report of the 

 dean of the school, A. C. True, showed that the last session of the 

 school was very successful in point of attendance, breadth and in- 

 terest of programme, and general results. An editorial account of 

 the school has alread}' appeared in the Record (E. S. R., 19, p. 1101), 



Cordial invitations were received to hold the next school at St. 

 Anthony Park, Minn., and Ames, Iowa. 



An important feature of the proceedings was an address by Major- 

 General J. Franklin Bell, Chief of Staff, U. S. Army, on Military 

 Instruction in the Land-grant Colleges, emphasizing the importance 

 of utilizing military instruction at these colleges as fully as possible 

 as an aid in preparing for national defense. On the invitation of 

 General Bell, the members of the convention took lunch at the War 

 College and inspected the work of this institution. The thanks of 

 the association Avere tendered General Bell, and the executive com- 

 mittee was instructed, if practicable, so to arrange the programme of 

 the next meeting of the association " as to give one session in con- 

 ference with the War College in relation to military instruction in 

 the land-grant colleges, as suggested and requested by General Bell." 



Commissioner E. E. Brown, of the U. S. Bureau of Education, 

 addressed the convention briefly on the importance of enlarging the 

 scope of the activities of the National Government with relation to 

 agricultural education and of more perfect coordination of such in- 

 struction with the general work of education. He emphasized the 

 importance of considering agricultural education as an essential 



