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of 53 to 1. From this time on no further mention appears of 

 mechanic arts in the programme of the Association. By a series 

 of amendments to the Constitution there disappeared the sections 

 on agriculture and chemistry, on horticulture and botany, on 

 entomology and on mechanic arts. It would appear that the 

 Association had through a series of years with no little debate 

 steadily developed into a Convention of Administrative Officers 

 in which the two great interests were the Colleges of Agriculture 

 and the Experiment Stations. 



In stating this conclusion as of the date of 1903, it should be 

 noted that repeatedly there was represented to the Association 

 the need of Engineering Experiment Stations and that at one 

 time the Association expressed its preference between two bills 

 favoring the one for Experiment Stations. 



At the Twenty-second Annual Convention, held in Washington, 

 November 18-20, 1908, (see Proceedings, page 44), a proposal 

 to amend the Constitution by having a section on the Extension 

 Work, was announced. In the subsequent year at the Portland 

 meeting of the Association in 1909, the section on Extension 

 Work was adopted and is now a part of the Constitution. 



Subsequently a new Association was organized known as the 

 Land Grant College Engineering Association. This has now 

 been in active operation for a period of three years and is holding 

 its fourth Session during the current week. The question is 

 now raised whether this Association should continue as a separate 

 and distinct association or whether it should be recognized as a 

 division of the parent Association on the same basis as the Colleges 

 of Agriculture, Stations and Extension Division. 



It may be worth while to direct the attention of the Association 

 to the fact that the Act of 1862 recognizes the Colleges of Agri- 

 culture and Mechanic Arts. It does not recognize separate 

 Colleges of Agriculture or separate Colleges of Mechanic Arts. 

 The division into Agricultural and Mechanic Arts is an adminis- 

 trative convenience as constituted in separate institutions. In 

 some of the states like Iowa, Michigan and others, these institu- 

 tions have the subdivisions known as Agricultural and Mechanic 

 Arts, whether called schools or colleges or divisions, is not vital. 

 In other institutions like Illinois and Ohio, the universities have a 

 number of colleges or schools where agriculture is given a separate 

 administration, as is also Mechanic Arts, usually under the title 



