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RECENT INFORMATION 



RESPECTING 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION 



ELSEWHERE. 



In order to ascertain the experience of other institutions whose 

 aims are kindred to those of the University of California, volumi- 

 nous collections have been made of their reports and catalogues, 

 and many letters have been interchanged with the most enlightened 

 leaders of education in this country. Attention is particularly 

 called to the experience of Cornell University, the University and 

 Agricultural College of Michigan, the Illinois Industrial Univer- 

 sity, the Universities of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and- Iowa, and the 

 Iowa Agricultural College ; as well as to the experience of the older 

 States, the Amherst Agricultural College, the Renssalaer Poly- 

 technic School, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the 

 Stevens Institute at Hoboken, the Bussey Institution of Harvard 

 College, and the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College. 



Some interesting utterances on the subject of modern agriculural 

 education are contained in the following extracts from printed or 

 manuscript papers in the possession of the Regents. 



These extracts are npt <jotbpiled for the purpose of exhibiting the 

 full activity of these institutions, but in order to show that some of 

 the difficulties which are experienced in California are encountered 

 elsewhere, and also to show that some of the best institutions in the 

 country are declaring that Agriculture is to be advanced by care- 

 ful investigations, and that' the scope of the National Colleges must 

 be liberal and comprehensive not narrowed and partial. 



