Annual Report of the Office of Experiment Stations, June 30, 1905 Page: 18
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18 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS.
The value of the additions to their permanent endowment and equipment
in 1905 is estimated to be $3,501,513.19. The number of persons
in the faculties of the colleges of agriculture and the mechanic
arts was 2,672, and in other departments 1,889, making a grand total
of 4,561. The number of students in 1905 was 59,812, of whom 2,638
were white students in four-year courses in agriculture, 4,634 white
students in shorter courses in agriculture, dairying, horticulture, and
veterinary science, and 1,624 negro students in agricultural courses.
The graduates in 1905 were 5,061, and since the organization of these
institutions, 62,081.
PROGRESS IN AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.
The year 1905 marks the semicentennial of the founding of agricultural
colleges in this country, and it has been a year of great
progress in agricultural education, not only in the United States,
but throughout the civilized world. The most notable event of the
year in this connection was the holding of two international congresses
at Liege, Belgium, namely, the Second International Congress
of Agricultural Education and the First International Congress of
Agricultural Mechanics. At both of these congresses this Office was
represented.
In the United States progress has been manifested in a material
way by more liberal appropriations for the equipment and current
expenses of the agricultural colleges, and in a less tangible but no less
hopeful and wholesome way by the attitude of the general public
toward agricultural education. At no time in the history of the
Republic has there been such free and favorable discussion of ways
and means for developing and extending the various phases of agricultural
education as during the past year. At the recent convention
of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment
Stations in Washington the section on college work discussed
very fully. and freely the field and functions of the land-grant colleges.
This discussion indicated quite clearly a better understanding
and a closer agreement concerning the nature of technical courses, as
well as a growing belief that the agricultural colleges should do more
to aid secondary and elementary instruction in agriculture through
the preparation of courses of study and the training of teachers. The
association decided to assume responsibility for the future sessions of
the Graduate School of Agriculture, the second session of which will
be held at the University of Illinois in July, 1906, and instructed its
executive committee to take steps to secure'the establishment of a
department of rural and agricultural education in the National Educational
Association.
The latter association has already shown considerable interest in
the subject of elementary agricultural education, which formed a
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