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and the heads of the departments through the dean, to report 

 their needs. 



In the interest of economy and efficiency, I would strongly 

 recommend that the budget for the college be agreed upon and 

 announced before the beginning of the fiscal year so that the 

 officers may know what funds are available with which to carry 

 on their work. It goes without saying that the dean of the col- 

 lege should prepare and recommend the budget for the consid- 

 eration of the president and the board. 



The courses of study. — The departments of botany and chem- 

 istry in the college are exceptionally well organized and well 

 officered. In these fundamental sciences, the work of the college 

 will compare favorably with that of the better colleges of the 

 United States, but in the practical subjects the college is not 

 nearly so far advanced. The curriculum requires all students 

 to devote their entire time during the first two years to academic 

 subjects as a preparation for the technical instruction which is 

 to follow. Thus, all students are required to remain in the 

 institution two years before they are permitted to receive in- 

 struction in agricultural subjects. In the third year only one 

 agricultural subject is offered. In the fourth year the proportion 

 of agricultural to cultural and scientific subjects is satisfactory. 

 In the fifth and sixth years the agricultural work is concentrated 

 and somewhat congested. In this respect, the present course 

 of study in the Philippine College of Agriculture resembles the 

 course of study in the American college of agriculture of twenty- 

 five or thirty years ago. American teachers have learned the 

 importance of introducing agricultural subjects at the very 

 beginning of the course, and from the first they are giving prac- 

 tical and theoretical instruction side by side. 



I would recommend that a strong and very closely supervised 

 course of five hours in farm practice be added to the first year 

 of the curriculum. This course should consist chiefly of the 

 methods of performing modern farm operations — a sort of farm 

 manual training course — wherein the student is taught how to 

 do in the most approved fashion for the Philippines those things 

 with which he will need to be perfectly familiar when he seeks 

 to instruct others in modern farm practice. There does not 

 seem to be any pressing need of eliminating anything now in 

 the course of study to make room for agriculture, but to avoid 

 overcrowding, German should be reduced to three hours a week. 

 I question seriously the wisdom of requiring these inadequately 

 prepared students to take a strong course in Germanic languages 



