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our having to refer back to our records. We are now about to 

 undertake a rather important ste]). The work has been given in the 

 freshman year, and we have fountl that while we have had some 

 success, yet we feel' we can do much better if we advance the work 

 two years, giving it in the third year. So the work from now on 

 will be given in the third year, and we are attempting to give some 

 laboratory work with it, and that is exceedingly difficult to work out, 



Mr. Sanders: I believe one of our greatest difficulties in teaching 

 entomology is that we work from cause to effect, rather than from effect 

 to cause. I have found in my work in Wisconsin that I can get the 

 interest of fruit growers very much better by addressing them on the 

 work of apple insects, and from that to the life history stage by 

 stage, working from the injury to the insect. I have applied that 

 method in my teaching to a large extent, and have taken the work 

 from effect to cause. Another thing I thoroughly believe in is to 

 divide and subdivide classes into small groups of six or eight, and to 

 talk to them in a conversational tone, using lantern slides, if neces- 

 sary. I believe personal contact with your men is far better than 

 attempting to teach a large number in a lecture. 



Professor Summers: I move we adjourn. Seconded. Carried. 



Morning session, Thursday, December 29, 1910 



Meeting called to order at 10.30 a. m., in Entomology Lecture Room, 

 Main Building, Department of Agriculture, St. Anthony Park, Minn., 

 by President Sanderson. 



President Sanderson: The first thing on the program for this 

 morning is the discussion of the presidential address. I will call 

 Professor Summers to the chair again. 



Mr. Summers (in the chair) : Gentlemen, our presidential address 

 is open for discussion. As I remember it, — it is such a long time since 

 it was dehvered, — he said something about preceding presidential 

 addresses being deeper and of greater import. I think all of us here, 

 without exception, will make an amendment to that, and strike out 

 the reference to past addresses. The discussion is open. 



Mr. Osborn: It is pretty hard to say which of the many strong 

 points in the president's address impressed me most. There were a 

 number of points which impressed me at the time, but several things 

 have come up since to drive them out of my mind; but one, the 

 matter of cooperation, it seems to me, is a very sensible idea. Now, 

 as stated in that address, a number of years ago a committee attempted 



