THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES AND 

 EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



OFFICERS. 



President, 



W. M. Liggett, of Minnesota. 



Vice-Presidents, 



W. 0. Thompson, of Ohio. J. H. Washburn, of Rhode Island. 



H. J. Waters, of Missouri. J. H. Worst, of North Dakota. 



J. C. Hardy, of Mississippi. 



Secretary and Treasurer, 



E. B. Voorhees, of New Jersey. 



Bibliographer, 



A. C. True, of Washington, D. C. 



Executive Committee, 



H. H. Goodell, of Massachusetts, Chairman. Alexis Cope, of Ohio. 



G. W. Atherton, of Pennsylvania. H. C. White, of Georgia. 



Ex officio, the President; the Junior Ex-President (A. W. Harris); the Secretary. 



FIFTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. 



The fifteenth annual convention of the Association of American 

 Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations was held at Wash- 

 ington, D. C., November 12-14, 1901. President A. W. Harris, of 

 the University of Maine, presided at the general sessions and delivered 

 the president's annual address. This address set forth clearly the 

 more important things for which the land-grant colleges stand and 

 summarized the results of their work. The land-grant act of 1862, 

 was considered important not only as providing for agricultural educa- 

 tion, but as the first sufficient recognition of study and investigation 

 as the basis of the best success in the arts and industries. It also pro- 

 claimed the duty of the National Government to promote industrial 

 education, and in its results demonstrated the effectiveness of govern- 

 mental cooperation. The most important of the direct results of this 

 act to agricultural colleges was the experiment station. "If .the agri- 

 cultural college did nothing more than to establish, maintain, and officer 

 the experiment station, it would be justified many times over." The 

 establishment of the agricultural colleges also caused the strengthening 

 and broadening of industrial education along all lines and has culmi- 

 nated in a great system of technical education. " It is also a great result 

 of the land-grant college to have asserted and established the doctrine 

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