Report of the Executive Committee 



on the 



Amendment of the Constitution 



To the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experi- 

 ment Stations, in session at Berkeley, California, August 

 11-13, 1915: 



At the last meeting of this Association the following action was 

 taken : , 



" Moved, that the Executive Committee be requested to poll 

 the membership of the Association on the question: What 

 changes would you suggest in the Constitution and methods of 

 organization of this Association; and further, that the Committee 

 after this canvass is completed, report its own conclusions upon 

 the question and make such recommendations of changes in the 

 Constitution of the Association, or such other steps, as it may 

 regard as necessary or desirable in order to carry out its 

 conclusions." 



Pursuant to this action the Executive Committee addressed 

 a letter under date of May 22, 1915, to the several colleges and 

 stations, calling attention to the several motions and discussions 

 as reported in the Proceedings and to the action taken. Separate 

 printed copies of the Constitution were forwarded with the letter 

 and request made for replies in order that the Executive Com- 

 mittee might have the data desired for a report. 



Exclusive of those represented by members of the Executive 

 Committee, sixteen institutions responded. From one institution 

 three men wrote expressing three different points of view. Four 

 presidents responded. Twelve deans or directors and three 

 Extension officers responded. Obviously less than half the 

 Institutions replied. There was no such general response 

 on the part of the officers as would intimate to the Executive 



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