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Dr. Dabney urged that the Government 

 take steps to recognize these institutions 

 more fully as agencies for the training of 

 the officers who will be needed for our in- 

 creased military establishment. A consid- 

 erable number of the graduates of these 

 institutions served with distinction in the 

 war just closed, and there is good reason to 

 believe that in the reorganization of our 

 volunteer army it will be necessary to look 

 to these institutions very largely for the 

 trained material needed to put the volun- 

 teer army on a more efficient basis. 



A notable paper was read by President 

 A. W. Harris, of the University of Maine, 

 on the relations of the churches to State 

 colleges and universities. The author 

 thought the different denominations should 

 make some special provision at these col- 

 leges for students of their membership by 

 building dormitories and chapels, and by 

 organizing special courses of instruction in 

 the immediate vicinity of the State college. 

 In the discussion which followed, it was 

 generally held that the churches might 

 safely be left to promote their own interests 

 through the agencies for church activity 

 which are common in American communi- 

 ties. 



The committee on methods of teaching 

 agriculture presented its third report of 

 progress, in which it gave a syllabus for a 

 course of instruction in agronomy (plant 

 production). The committee on indexing 

 agricultural literature presented a library 

 classification of agriculture (in its narrower 

 technical sense) devised by Mr. W. P. 

 Cutter, Librarian of the Department of 

 Agriculture. The committee appointed by 

 this Association to cooperate with the com- 

 mittee from the Association of Official Agri- 

 cultural Chemists on uniformity in fertilizer 

 laws brought in a schedule of twenty points, 

 which both committees agreed were suitable 

 for incorporation in the laws of the several 

 States. By a very decisive vote the Asso- 



ciation rejected propositions for the amend- 

 ment of the constitution of the Association 

 which looked to the abolition of the sections 

 or their reduction in number. Meetings of 

 all the sections were held during this con- 

 vention and a number of interesting papers 

 were read. Among the subjects most eai-n- 

 estly discussed were the inspection of nur- 

 sery stock for the repression of insect and 

 fungus enemies, and horticultural nomen- 

 clature. 



The following officers of the Association 

 were elected for the ensuing year : Presi- 

 dent, H. P. Armsby, Director of the Penn- 

 sylvania State College Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station ; First Vice-President, J. E. 

 Stubbs, President of the Nevada State Uni- 

 versity ; Second Vice-President, C. S. 

 Murkland, President of the New Hampshire 

 College of Agriculture and the Mechanic 

 Arts ; Third Vice-President, J. L. Snyder, 

 President of the Michigan Agricultural Col- 

 lege ; Fourth Vice-President, P. H. Mell, 

 Director of the Agricultural Experiment 

 Station of the Agricultural and Mechanical 

 College of Alabama ; Fifth Vice-President, 

 F. P. Anderson, Professor of Mechanical 

 Engineering of the Agricultural and Me- 

 chanical College of Kentucky ; Secretary 

 and Treasurer, E. B. Voorhees, Director of 

 the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment 

 Stations; Bibliographer, A. C. True, Director 

 of the Oflice of Experiment Stations of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture ; Executive 

 Committee : H. H. Goodell, President of 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College ; Alexis 

 Cope, Secretary of Ohio State University ; 

 J. H. Washburn, President of the Rhode 

 Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic 

 Arts ; W. M. Liggett, Director of the Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station of the Uni- 

 versitj' of Minnesota. 



The following is a list of the papers read 

 before the sections : 



Section on College Work : ' Some Recent Changes 

 in the Theory of Education,' E. A. Bryan, President 



