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there were three students from India. In addition, there were a con- 

 siderable number of persons who came as visitors, to attend the exer- 

 cises for a few days, who were not registered. The attendance, 

 therefore, considerably exceeded that of the previous session, at Ohio 

 State University, at which 75 students were registered. 



The opening exercises of the school were held on the evening of 

 July 4, when the school was welcomed to the University by Dr. T. J. 

 Burrill, vice-president of the University. Prof. L. H. Bailey presided 

 and made an address in which he pointed out the need of a compre- 

 hensive system of agricultural education comprising institutions or 

 departments for research, graduate study, college courses, extension 

 work, and secondary and elementary courses. The graduate school 

 is needed to aid in the more complete establishment of such a system 

 and to stimulate workers in our agricultural institutions to more 

 thorough study and research. 



Dr. A. C. True gave a short history of the graduate school and 

 pointed out the great development of agricultural education and research 

 in this country since the first session of the school was held four years 

 ago. He also called attention to the pressing need for more trained 

 workers in different branches of agricultural service. The claim was 

 made that the battle for adequate recognition of agriculture in our 

 higher institutions of learning is essentially won and that our leading 

 educators are convinced that agriculture in some form should consti- 

 tute part of the industrial element of public school education. It was 

 pointed out that so great is the public interest in agricultural educa- 

 tion and research that funds are coming to our agricultural institutions 

 fully as fast as they can be utilized, and that a very great responsibility 

 is being laid on our agricultural teachers and scientists to make the 

 best use of the money put in their hands. 



A paper by Dr. H. W. Wiley, Chief of the Bureau of Chemistiy of 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture, was also presented, in which the 

 meager opportunities for study along agricultural lines in preparation 

 for the doctor's degree at our leading universities were shown. These 

 were contrasted with the wider opportunities for such work offered in 

 the German universities and the greater extent to which advanced study 

 in agricultural lines is encouraged. Dr. Wiley declared that "there 

 are no problems of a strictly scientific character which at the present 

 time have more intimate relations to the welfare of the people than 

 those which are connected with agriculture. The field of research also 

 in this region is more fruitful, the number of problems greater, and 

 the opportunities for discovery wider than in almost any other field of 

 scientific investigation. The establishment of agricultural colleges 

 and experiment stations is giving proper training to a vast body of 

 young men, many of whom ought to enter the university and continue 



