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round-table stylo the report of a committee of their classmates who had been inquir- 
ing into the market gardens and ascertaining what crops are raised and in what 
order of succession ; how many in the year ; how the gardeners meet the first demands 
of the market in the spring; how they use forcing honses; how they handle trans- 
portation; how they get to market; how they live — that is to say, how they sleep 
and cat while on the way to the city and while there. All these little practical items 
become interesting and suggestive when discussed in this way. The uneducated 
person lives and acts, but does not think about the method of his living and acting. 
School education sets the individual at once to considering the method in which 
things are done. What an interesting thing it would be to compare the methods of 
market gardeners in New Orleans, Cincinnati, Boston, New York, Chicago, St. Louis, 
Baltimore, etc. Set to study these processes, the students of the agricultural college 
become centers of information and directive power for their neighborhoods when 
they return as graduates to their homes. 
It has been found that university extension stands in need of endowment much 
more than the regular teaching work of the colleges of the country. There should 
be fellowships founded by wealthy men interested in agriculture so that young men 
of genius may repair to the college on these fellowships and have their necessary 
expenses all provided for. This is the one country of the world for endowment of 
educational institutions by private munificence. I presume that each college presi- 
dent knows of certain persons who would be glad to erect monuments for their fami- 
lies in the shape of scholarships in the State university, if they were sure that the 
money would increase the practical acumen of students who seek higher education. 
I believe that in this direction large endowments may be expected in the near future 
and that a proper account of the practical work done by agricultural students when 
published in the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education will be found the 
best means of attracting from men of wealth numerous endowments for the purpose 
of founding fellowships in agriculture. Many of the wealthy men of this country 
look askance at the liberal education furnished in our colleges and universities. 
Many have devoted large sums to establish nondescript institutes with the hope that 
they would better tit young men for industry and the practical demands of life. 
They want something, but they do not know how to obtain what they want. I 
believe that it is in the future of these land-grant colleges founded for agricultural 
and mechanical instruction to solve this problem and to hold up for the would-be 
practical philanthropists a kind of education which makes the most of the talents 
of the youth and to stimulate him to original investigation and to lead him onward 
into the abstruse and highly technical studies which are necessary in order to endow 
him with power to solve the highest problems. I have ventured to make these 
remarks in order to show more clearly what kind of contributions I should like from 
the presidents and professors of agricultural colleges who will kindly undertake to 
record for mo these items of progress in the development of the pedagogical form 
for the new branches of instruction. 
Evening Session, Wednesday, November 14, 1894. 
The Association was called to order by Chairman Morrow, at 7.30 p. m. 
Mr. Alvord. .1 call attention to the fact that the constitution, while 
it names the number of vice-presidents, does not indicate any difference 
in their relative rank. It has been thought best to dispose of any 
possible complications by the following resolution, which is recom- 
mended by the executive committee: 
Resolved, That the nominating committee be instructed to designate the vice- 
presidents in numerical order when making their report to the convention. 
Adopted. 
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