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whose final report, presented two years later, was adopted. 

 This report recommended as a standard of entrance require- 

 ments for college courses (i) physical geography; (2) United 

 States history ; (3) arithmetic, including the metric system ; 

 (4) algebra to quadratics ; (5) English grammar and composition, 

 together with the English requirements of the New England 

 Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools ; and (6) 

 ancient, general or English history ; and suggested that all 

 colleges should unite in requiring the first five subjects as a 

 minimum for their lowest collegiate class. The committee 

 also urged that the colleges should require for four years' 

 courses leading to a bachelor's degree (1) mathematics, i.e., 

 algebra, geometry and trigonometry ; (2) physics and chemistry, 

 with laboratory work in each ; (3) English language and 

 literature ; (4) other languages (at least one modern) ; (5) 

 mental science and logic or moral science ; (6) constitutional 

 law; and (7) social, political or economic science." 



In 1895 the Association appointed a standing committee 

 on methods of teaching agriculture, which presented up to 1904 

 eight reports, with suggestions as to courses of instruction in 

 agriculture, which have been of great value to colleges in develop- 

 ing their courses in this subject, reducing them to pedagogic 

 form and enabling them to co-ordinate their courses with those 

 of other universities. 



At the head of the departments of original research and 

 graduate study stand the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture and the agricultural experiment stations in the different 

 States and Territories, which are organised chiefly as depart- 

 ments of the land-grant colleges. 



These institutions, organised originally mainly for purposes 

 of research, have done much to promote agricultural education 

 by opening their laboratories and libraries to assistants, who 

 participate in research work by continuing their studies there. 

 The graduates of agricultural and other colleges are thus 

 trained as helpers in scientific work. 



The Secretary of Agriculture in his report for 1903 said with 

 regard to the educational work of his department : — 



" This department has thus become a post-graduate institu- 

 tion, where groups of sciences are taught and applied. Com- 

 paratively little time is devoted to the ascertainment of abstract 



