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tion from him and the men who have received instruction in that old 
classical college, I think you would agree with me that at Aliddletown, 
Conn., there is a first-class agricultural college — a better one than we 
find in many of our States to-day. There is a representative here from 
the Institute of Technology, and in the Institute of Technology there 
exists now an admirable course in agriculture ; they do not call it 
agriculture, but that is what it really is. For that reason I think it 
important that we should stamp out, if we can, the word "agricultural 
college." Any college with the word " agriculture" 7 in its name seems to 
the public something less than other colleges. If there is such a thing 
as an agricultural college, it is first a college, and afterwards agricul- 
tural. Xow. what shall the name be? It is proposed that we shall 
follow the organic acts, but you will find no name there. Does not the 
Pennsylvania State College conform to the organic act as well as the 
agricultural and mechanical college of some State or other? Does not 
the University of Wisconsin conform to the act better than some other 
institutions? What,' then, shall we select? Some one out of many 
characteristics must receive emphasis. I believe that the most impor- 
tant idea we represent is not agricultural education, nor the wider 
industrial education, but State education — the assertion that the State 
owes it to every boy and every girl to give, not the meanest education 
it can get oft' with, but the very best education, which shall take him 
from his A B C's until he receives his diploma from the State university. 
For these reasons I am in favor of my own amendment, and I should 
call the Association the "Association of American State Colleges," and 
include all the arts, the old-fashioned liberal arts among them, when 
you can. 
Mr. Heney. We have been quarreling about what the baby's name 
shall be ever since it was born. To-day it is said that the mechanical 
section of this Association is already leading the agricultural. They 
seem to be doing very well; why not let them alone? I learn that 37 
States are represented in this convention ; I learn that adjectives do not 
represent them, and yet we propose to add another adjective. If the 
mechanical section is doing its work so well, why not let it go on? Our 
name is good enough, and I move that the proposed amendment lie on 
the table. 
Seconded. 
The yeas and nays were called for, with the result that 33 yeas and 
10 nays were recorded, as follows: 
Yeas— Messrs. A. L. Emigb, C. S. Plumb, A.W. Harris, H. IT. Goodell, W. M. Hays, 
W.C. Welborn,W.P. Headden, C.D.Woods, R. H. Miller, S. M.Tracy, 8. P. McCrea, 
I. P. Roberts, J.P.Power, W. H. Scott, H. E. Alvord, T. C. Earns, M. H. Backhaul, 
C. L. Goodrich, P. W. Pane, N. L). Pratt, A. A. Johnson. A. C. True, A. E. Blount, 
H. H.Wing, E. P. Ladd, W. J. Green, H. P. Armsb 
C. P. Vanderford, J. E. Hills, J. A. Myers. W. A.Henry 
Nays— Messrs. W. L. Broun, A. X. Raub, O. (lute. J. K. Patterson, W. W. Tyler, 
R. II. Jesse, P. II. Mell, M. A. Scovell, C. S. MnrMand, A. Scott, A. Q. Holladay, 
J. II. Washburn, P. P. Craighead, E. P. Voorbees, E. E. Emery, V.L.Roy. 
