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chusetts Institute of Technology, which shared in the funds 

 allowed the Commonwealth by the national government. 

 By this arrangement the College was left to teach what 

 pertains to agriculture. At the tenth annual convention of 

 the Association of American Agricultural and Experiment 

 Stations, held in the City of Washington, November 12, 

 1896, four college presidents from different parts of the 

 country were appointed to discuss the question, "What 

 should be taught in our Colleges of Agriculture? " In these 

 papers the individuality of the writers stands out clearly, 

 and in none more prominently than in the paper presented 

 by the representative from Massachusetts. President 

 Goodell presented the subject as it had been developed at 

 Amherst, and the reader is referred to his address printed 

 in this volume. It is to be noticed that, in his schedule of 

 studies, he made English an important factor in fitting a 

 man to be a farmer. Some of the speakers dismissed the 

 subject at the end of the first year, while he carried it 

 through the whole course. His reason for this is thus co- 

 gently stated: "The student's mind being brought in con- 

 tact with the great minds that have adorned the pages of 

 American and English history, his mind, his powers are 

 quickened and developed thereby, his mental horizon is 

 enlarged, and thus a most important educational advantage 

 is secured." 



Dr. E. W. Allen, Assistant Director in the Office of Ex- 

 periment Stations at Washington, and a graduate of the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College, in a private letter, 

 which he has kindly allowed to be published, has summed 

 up the whole subject of President GoodelPs ideas of agricul- 

 tural education, in a most admirable way, as will be seen 



