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that education in all its forms, from the lowest to the highest, is a State 

 function, in which the State has the fullest rights and for which it must 

 bear the responsibility, sharing the privilege and responsibility with 

 private corporations only as it thinks best." The speaker considered 

 State aid and control in higher education as necessary to the* best 

 national development, and especially so because in this way the results 

 of higher education become the property of all the people. The 

 address concluded with an eloquent tribute to the memory and worth 

 of Justin S. Morrill. 



The report of the executive committee presented by its chairman, 

 President H. H. Goodell, of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 called the attention of the association to the fact that the bill for 

 the establishment of schools or departments of mining and metallurgy 

 in connection with the land-grant colleges passed the Senate, but failed 

 to be called up in the House of Representatives during the last session 

 of Congress. The introduction of a similar bill into Congress early 

 next session was recommended. 



The report of the committee on revision of the constitution called 

 forth a vigorous discussion. The association refused to change its 

 name. Among the important amendments adopted were those provid- 

 ing that the election of officers shall be by ballot upon nominations made 

 on the floor of the convention, and that the programme of the annual 

 conventions of the association shall hereafter be made up and distrib- 

 uted sixty days before the meeting of the convention; and the sub- 

 jects provided for consideration by a section of any convention of the 

 association shall concentrate the deliberations of the section upon not 

 more than two main lines of discussion, which lines shall as far as pos- 

 sible be related. Not more than one-third of the working time of any 

 annual convention of the association shall be assigned to miscellaneous 

 business. % 



The committee on graduate study at Washington reported that no 

 progress had been made since the last convention in securing a Govern- 

 ment bureau in Washington for the administration of graduate work. 

 The association directed the committee to continue its efforts in this 

 direction and, in the meantime, to secure if practicable the same oppor- 

 tunities for study and research in other Departments of the Govern- 

 ment as are at present afforded graduate students in the Department 

 of Agriculture. A resolution was also adopted by the association 

 recording its appreciation of the action of the Government in making 

 available the facilities for research and advanced work in the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, and expressing a desire that these facilities may 

 be still further extended and that a national university devoted exclu- 

 sively to advanced study and graduate and research work be estab- 

 lished. 



The sixth report of progress was submitted by the committee on 



