EDITORIAL. ll.'U 



the studies of their college days, . . . What the friends of agriculture 

 should ask is that in the future our great universities should recognize 

 agricultural science as one of the leading branches to which attention 

 should be paid in graduate si udies." 



Several conferences and informal meetings were held during the 

 session of the school, and a National Association of Dairy Instructors 

 and Investigators was formed. A conference for the discussion of 

 general questions relating t<> the organ izal ion of agricultural education 

 and research was held Julv 7. Dean Davenport outlined the organi 

 zation of tin* College of Agriculture of the University of Illinois. 

 The system followed there involves the division of authority and work 

 in such a manner that definite responsibility is laid on officers in the 

 several departments and full credit is given for each man's -hare in 

 the work. Questions involving "team work" are discussed at meet 

 ings of the workers, and every effort is made to secure full agreement 

 on plans before their execution is attempted. In order to secure 

 financial and moral support for the college and station the farmers' 

 organizations throughout the State are taken into confidence, and the 

 responsibility for the proper maintenance of the institution is laid <>n 

 their shoulders. 



Professor Bailey argued in favor of the establishment of regular 

 provision for agricultural studies leading to the doctor's degree in our 

 universities and would make this a matter to be controlled by the uni- 

 versity rather than by the college of agriculture. He also favored the 

 simplification of degrees and would have Ph. D., M. S., and B. S. (or 

 M. A. and B. A.) the only degrees to be conferred in course. This 

 suggestion met with much approval from members of the graduate 



school. 



Dr. \V. II. Jordan, director of the New York State Experiment 

 Station, spoke very earnestly of the need of more thorough scientific 

 research alone' agricultural lines, and impressed his hearers with the 

 great importance of maintaining the strictest integrity in making and 

 recording agricultural invest igations. 



Dr. \Y. ( ). Thompson, president of Ohio State University' and one 



of the founders of the graduate school, gave a brief account of the 



orio-in of the school, and expressed his strong belief in it- value a- an 

 aid to broadening and strengthening our system of agricultural educa- 

 tion. He predicted that it would have a career of increasing success 

 and usefulness. Dr. Brown Ay res, president of the University of 

 Tennessee, -poke from the standpoint of one interested in general 

 educational advancement, and emphasized the importance of the move 

 ment for the development of a thorough system of agricultural 

 education. 



A conference on extension work in agriculture was held July 21, at 

 which great interest in this feature was developed. Resolutions 



