and strength in the Association to which the work was entitled. 

 The Association is now considering whether it shall increase the 

 number of delegates by multiplying the Sections or Committees 

 so as to have practically two hundred or more men from these 

 institutions assemble every year in convention. 



Second : The other proposal is to create sections on a practical 

 equality, each one of which will be recognized substantially as an 

 institution, namely, the College, the Station, the Extension 

 Division, and the Mechanic Arts or Engineering Division. The 

 theory on which this has proceeded is that these subjects are of 

 large administrative importance. If we eliminate particular 

 subjects and confine the convention to administrative divisions, 

 the Association would then become a body of administrative 

 officers attended by Presidents, Deans, Directors, Superintendents, 

 or by whatever other title the administrative officers of these 

 institutions would be designated. 



The logical result of this second method would be to recognize 

 the parity of this subdivision. The opinion is here expressed 

 that a good many people act upon the theory that Mechanic 

 Arts is an administrative division on a parity with Agriculture 

 and that both of them somehow should be recognized as institu- 

 tions. The fact is that the law does not recognize any such 

 division. The Smith-Lever Act also recognizes that Extension 

 Service is a subdivision of the institutions founded under the 

 Act of 1862. 



Reference to the discussions that have taken place in this 

 Association as reported in the Proceedings from year to year 

 will disclose the fact that a considerable proportion of the men 

 attending this convention for the last twenty years has been 

 disposed to recognize the Stations as separate institutions and 

 thus to have in their mind two divisions, namely, the College and 

 the Station. There is some justification for the belief that 

 this Association has shown a tendency to regard itself as exclusively 

 Agricultural and to ignore the division of Mechanic Acts. The 

 success before Congress in passing distinctive Agricultural 

 measures has given rise to the belief that the Association's endorse- 

 ment of engineering measures, while sincere has not carried with it 

 the same sort of activity in their support as has characterized 

 its endorsement of distinctly agricultural proposals. The men 

 representing Mechanic Arts or Engineering believe that the 



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