FOURTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE ASSOCIATION 

 OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES AND EXPERI- 

 MENT STATIONS. 



E. W. Allen, Ph. D. 

 Office of Experiment Stations. 



This year being the twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishment 

 of aw-ricultural experiment stations in this country as State institu- 

 tions, it seemed especially appropriate that the convention of the 

 Association which represents the combined interests of these institu- 

 tions and the colleges with which they are affiliated should be held in 

 the State where the station movement had its birth. The sessions on 

 November 13 and 15 were held at New Haven, Conn., in the assembly 

 room of the Sheffield Scientihc School, and those of November 14, at 

 Middletown in Judd Hall and the chapel of Wesleyan University. 

 The meetings were well attended and the representation was quite 

 general, delegates being present from every section of the country 

 and a considerable number coming from the far West. In all, 116 dele- 

 gates and visitors registered, representing 38 States and Territories 

 and 68 institutions. The opportunity afforded for looking over the 

 two stations in Connecticut and those in some of the adjoining States 

 was embraced by many of the delegates who came from a distance. 



GENERAL SESSIONS. 



The general sessions were presided over by President J. E. Stubbs, 

 of the University of Nevada, who delivered the presidential address on 

 the first evening of the convention. This was a scholarly discourse 

 on the subject. What is of most worth in modern education? The 

 answer to this question the speaker conceived to be the exaltation of 

 ethical values, "for the reason that ethical values are fundamental and 

 paramount in the ideas and ideals of modern education — the ideas as 

 representing present methods, organization, and spirit, and the ideals 

 as setting forth the high aims of ceaseless progress toward educational 

 perfection.''' Modern education seeks the development and the train- 

 ing of those human powers which make for individual worth and social 

 well-being, and he urged the importance of maintaining this union 

 of training for service and of culture for life up to the end of the 

 broadest and most privileged education. He pointed out that "the 

 purpose to be achieved by educators of the present time should be to 



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