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control. He favored the latter method, which places the matter of 

 discipline entirely in the hands of the president of the college and 

 does away with the necessity for elaborate rules and regulations. The 

 discussion following seemed in general to favor this view. 



In discussing the relation of the land-grant colleges to the State 

 universities, President W. J. Kerr stated that since 1862, in response 

 to a demand which found its first concrete expression in the land-grant 

 act, the courses in the State universities have been greatly modified, 

 the changes being toward "education related more directly to the 

 practical affairs of life." The logical division of work in the States 

 having separate institutions he thought would be for the universities 

 to offer courses in liberal arts and the professions, while the land- 

 grant colleges would offer all of the technical courses in agriculture 

 &nd the mechanic arts. 



In a paper on The Normal Schools, President K. C. Babcock brought 

 out the fact that comparatively little is now being done to train teach- 

 ers for small towns, villages, and rural communities. He urged that 

 the land-grant colleges should help the normal schools by offering- 

 short courses for teachers, holding institutes, and sending out their 

 officers to give courses and lectures in normal schools. The same gen- 

 eral conception of the duty of the land-grant colleges in the movement 

 for the improvement of public schools was held b}^ Dr. A. C. True, 

 who read a paper on The Public Schools. He said that the colleges 

 should study the programmes of the public schools, come into close 

 touch with their school officers and teachers, provide courses of study 

 which will be attractive to school officers and teachers, and by summer 

 schools or otherwise seek to bring such persons into direct contact 

 with the system of education represented in these colleges. Elemen- 

 tary and secondary courses in agriculture and mechanic arts in the 

 public schools are required to direct students to the land-grant col- 

 leges and to prepare them to enter their courses. 



Prof. John Hamilton discussed the relation of the land-grant col- 

 leges to the farmers, and pointed out three great fields in w T hich these 

 institutions should work, viz, (1) the college class room— four-year 

 courses, short courses, and post-graduate courses; (2) college exten- 

 sion work, including correspondence courses, farmers' institutes, 

 movable schools of agriculture, and practice farms, and (3) normal 

 schools of agriculture for training capable farmers to take part in the 

 extension work of the colleges. 



SECTION ON EXPERIMENT STATION WORK. 



The two subjects arranged by the programme committee for consid- 

 eration in this section were (1) soil investigations and (2) how much 

 demonstration work and what kind should the experiment station 

 undertake \ 



