useful form for the Association to take to accomplish its future 

 work, and it seems expedient to present two different propositions. 



A majority of the Committee and of those whom iUaas been 

 practicable to confer with favor a radical change in the Con- 

 stitution, and this is first submitted for consideration and action. 



This plan proposes the abolition of all sections, so that if 

 adopted, the Annual Convention of the Association would there- 

 after be a meeting of the Executive Officers of Colleges and 

 Stations, with such other and special delegates as the institutions 

 respectively saw fit to send to these conferences. 



It is believed by those favoring this plan that it will effectively 

 bring the Association back to its original purpose, namely, the 

 consideration in annual conference of the problems of College and 

 Station administration, as affecting (a) internal working, (b) 

 relations of the government of the United States, (c) relations to 

 the state governments respectively, (d) relations to other institu- 

 tions, and (e) attitude toward new legislation proposed from 

 time to time. 



The delegates who are able to assemble annually as representa- 

 tives of the institutions forming the Association need the entire 

 time at their disposal, to enable them to give undivided attention 

 to these subjects of paramount importance. 



If the sections are continued, the natural tendency will be to 

 increase the number, because, if it is good policy to have any 

 departments of colleges and stations represented by specialists, 

 it is expedient and right that all departments should have equal 

 opportunities. Following this logical course, it will be more 

 and more difficult than it now is to select and limit the attendance 

 at these conventions. 



There are, however, other organizations of chemists, engineers, 

 botanists, etc., which professors and investigators desire to attend 

 at which they have ample opportunities for the work they now 

 seek to do at the conventions of this Association, and where for 

 many reasons, it is better for them to go. At these other meetings 

 delegates from the various land-grant colleges and experiment 

 stations come in contact not only with men from institutions 

 of like character, but also with men from all the other colleges and 

 universities and technical schools. This opens a wider field and 

 presents superior advantages. Many believed that, forced on 

 economical grounds to make choice, the institutions concerned 



