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Utah College. — .7. A. Bexell, head of the coiiuiieroe department, has heen made 

 seeretiiiv of tlie iroveriiin^ ])oanl, vice P. W. Maughan, repi«rned. 



Virginia College and Station. — A. "SI. Soule, formerly director of the Tennessee 

 Station, ha.s l)een ele<'ted dean of the department of ajjricnlture of the colletre and 

 <lirector of the station, to take effect September 1. 



Wisconsin Station. — AV. B. Richards, assistant in animal hn.<l)andry at the station, 

 has been elected to a similar i)osition in North Dakota. He will 1)e succeeded at 

 Wisconsin by J. (i. Fuller, a jiraduate of the Wisconsin Agricultural College. 



Wyoming University. — President Lewis of the university died, after a l)rief illness, 

 June 19. 



First Convention of the American Civic Association. — The American Civic Association 

 is the name of a new organization formed by the consolidation of the American Park 

 and Outdoor Art Association and the American League of Civic Improvement. 

 These are strong national organizations, whicli for a numl)er of years have been 

 working along the same lines, each duplicating to a certain extent the work of the 

 other. Committees have been working on the plan for two years, and the union of 

 the two organizations was finally brought about at their recent joint convention at 

 St. Louis, June 9 to 11. The active propaganda of the association will be conducted 

 largely through departments under the leailership of departmental vice-presidents 

 and secretaries. 



The officers elected were as follows: President, J. Horace McFarland, Harrisburg; 

 first vice-president, Clinton Rogers Woodruff, Philadelphia; general vice-presidents, 

 George Foster Peabody, New York, Franklin MacVeagh, Chicago; secretary, Charles 

 Mulford Robinson, Rochester; treasurer, William B. Howland, New York. Woman's 

 Outdoor Art League: President, Mrs. Charles F. Millspaugh, Chicago; first vice- 

 president, Mrs. Sylvester Baxter, Boston; second vice-president, Mrs. Basil Duke, 

 Louisville, Ky. ; recording secretary, Mrs. Cieorge T. Banzet, Chicago; correspond- 

 ing secretary, Mrs. Francis Copley Seavey, Chicago; treasurer, Mrs. William H. 

 Crosby, Racine, Wis.; directors, Mrs. W. J. Washburn, Los Angeles, Cal.; 3Irs. H. 

 B. Stearns, New Orleans; ^Irs. A. W. Sanborn, Ashland, Wis.; Miss Elizabeth 

 BuUard, Bridgeport, Conn. 



The departments of work of the American Civic Association and their respective 

 vice-presidents are as follows: Public recreation, Joseph Lee, Boston; arts and 

 crafts, Mrs. M. F. Johnston, Richmond, Ind. ; city making, F. S. Lamb, New York; 

 outdoor art, Warren H. Manning, Boston; factory betterment, Edwin L. Shuey, 

 Dayton, Ohio; children's gardens, Dick J. Crosby, Washington, D. C. ; libraries, H. 

 Putnam, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. ; parks and public reservations, G. 

 A. Parker, Hartford, Conn.; rural improvements, O. C. Simonds, Chicago; school 

 extension, Charles Zueblin, Chicago; social settlements, Frank Chapin Bray, Chi- 

 cago; press, Mrs. Conde Hamlin, St. Paul. 



Agricultural Education. — The Travelers' Protective Association at its annual con- 

 vention in Springfield, 111., June 8, adopted resolutions favoring radical changes in 

 our educational system. The resolutions demand among other things that "our 

 entire educational system should be so remodeled as to teach every child to be a 

 lover of nature and the country, and to train them toward the land as a source of 

 livelihood rather than away from it, and thus counteract the drift of population to 

 the cities and turn it back to the land;" that farm training schools should be estab- 

 lished by county, municii)al, State, and the National governments; that what 

 remains of our public domain "should. l)e sacredly reserved for actual home build- 

 ers," and "that a permanent committee on education, irrigation, forestry, and land, 

 should be appointed by this association," and that this conmiittee should formulate 

 without delay a plan for actively enlisting the personal cooperation of all members 

 of this association in the movement for thus modifving our educational svstem. 



