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of governmental cooperation. The most 

 important of the direct results of this act 

 to agriculture was the experiment station. 

 "If the a-gricultural 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 culminated 

 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 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 re- 

 sponsibility, sharing the privilege and re- 

 sponsibility with private corporations only 

 as it thinks best." The speaker considered 

 state aid and control in higher education as 

 necessary to the be-t 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 Agricul- 

 tural 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 

 Eepresentatives during the last session of 

 Congress. The introduction of a similar 

 bill into Congress early in its next session 

 was recommended. 



The report of the Committee on Eevision 

 of the Constitution called forth a vigorous 

 discussion. The Association refused to 

 change its name. Among the important 

 amendments adopted were those providing 

 that the election of officers shall be by bal- 



lot upon nominations made on the floor of 

 the convention, and that the program of 

 the annual conventions of the Association 

 shall hereafter be made up and distributed 

 sixty days before the meeting of the con- 

 vention ; and "the subjects provided for 

 consideration by a section at any conven- 

 tion of the Association shall concentrate 

 the deliberations of the section upon not 

 more than two main lines of discussion, 

 which lines shall so far as possible be re- 

 lated. Not more than one-third of the 

 working time of any annual convention of 

 the Association shall be assigned to mis- 

 cellaneous business." 



The Committee on Graduate Study at 

 Washington reported that no progress had 

 been made since the last convention in se- 

 curing a Government bureau in Washing- 

 ton for the administration of graduate 

 work. The Association directed the com- 

 mittee to continue its efforts in this direc- 

 tion and, in the meantime, to secure if prac- 

 ticable the same opportunities for study 

 and research in other departments of the 

 government as are at present afforded 

 graduate students in the Department of 

 Agriculture. A resolution was also adopted 

 by the Association recording its apprecia- 

 tion of the action of the government in 

 making available the facilities for research 

 and advanced work in the Department of 

 Agriculture, and expressing a desire that 

 these facilities may be still further extended 

 and that a national university devoted ex- 

 clusively to advanced study and graduate 

 and research work be established. 



The sixth report of progress was submit- 

 ted by the Committee on Methods of Teach- 

 ing Agriculture. Attention was called to 

 the publication by the Department of Agri- 

 culture of the syllabi of courses in agro- 

 techny, rural engineering and rural eco- 

 nomics prepared by the committee last 

 year. In surveying the progress of agricul- 

 tural education in this country during re- 



