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EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD
VOL. 74 JANUARY 1936 No. 1
EDITORIAL
THE FORTY-NINTH CONVENTION OF THE ASSOCIATION OF LAND-GRANT
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
Deviating for the first time in many years from its custom of
alternating its meetings between Washington and Chicago, the Association
of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities returned to the National
Capital for its forty-ninth annual convention, holding it in
this city from November 18 to 20, 1935. This innovation was decided
upon, it is understood, because of the interest of the association
at this time in its Federal relationships and especially its relationships
with the Federal Department of Agriculture. Not only was
the formal program built directly around this theme, but the convention
period was probably utilized more extensively than ever before
for personal contacts and the advancement of much institutional
business with the various Federal agencies.
Registration at the convention disclosed the representation of
every State in the Union, as well as Alaska and Hawaii. The total
number recorded was well in excess of 300, many institutions being
represented not only by their presidents but by the deans of agriculture,
home economics, and engineering, the directors of experiment
stations and extension work, and not infrequently by other members
of their staffs. Attendance at most of the sessions was large, and
the subsections of experiment station and extension work and the
section on home economics found it desirable to supplement the
scheduled sessions with less formal gatherings before, during, and
after the convention itself.
Following a brief address by Dr. Frank J. Kelly, who brought
greetings from the Office of Education of the Federal Department
of the Interior, the presidential address was given by President
Frank L. McVey of Kentucky. President McVey took for his subject
The High Obligation of the Land-Grant College and University.
He traced the course of national development with its trend toward
either an increased centralization or a decentralization on a regional
basis, and warned the land-grant institutions of the necessity of
readjustments to the new environment. This situation, in his opinion,
called for sound research as the basis of the reliable information
which has become so essential.
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