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Prin. C. T. R. SMITH, Lansingburg Academy.

Prin. ROLAND S. KEYSER, Middleburg Academy.

Prin. JOSEPH E. KING, Fort Edward Collegiate Institute.

Prin. E. J. PECK, Owego Free Academy.

Pres. ETHELBERT D. WARFIELD, La Fayette College, Easton, Pa.
Pres. J. M. TAYLOR, Vassar College.

Pres. JAMES MAC ALISTER, Drexel Institute, Philadelphia.

Pres. H. E. WEBSTER, Union University.

Prin. O. B. RHODES, Adams Collegiate Institute.

Are the abnormally high requirements for admission maintained by a few colleges an injury to higher education?

Prof. EPHRAIM EMERTON, Harvard University.

Prof. HORATIO S. WHITE, Dean of Cornell University.

Prof. ADOLPHE COHN, Columbia College.

WILLIS BOUGHTON, M. A., University of Pennsylvania.
Prin. GEORGE H. OTTOWAY, Canastota.

A. W. NORTON, Oswego Normal School.

Examinations and degrees. Should the M. A. degree be abandoned or given a distinct pedagogic significance ?

The specialist vs the M. A. degree.

MARCELLUS OAKLEY, Little Falls Academy.

General discussion:

Pres. J. M. TAYLOR, Vassar College.

Prof. H. S. WHITE, Cornell University.

Prof. EPHRAIM EMERTON, Harvard University.

The proper academic recognition of results of higher examinations conducted by the University: report by the committee representing colleges, to whom this question was referred by the regents with the request to report for further consideration by Convocation.

General discussion:

Prin. SOLOMON SIAS, Schoharie.

Prin. GEORGE H. OTTOWAY, Canastota.

Bishop WILLIAM CROSWELL DOANE, Albany.
Rev. CLARENCE A. WALWORTH Albany.

Regent T. GUILFORD SMITH, Buffalo.
Pres. J. G. SCHURMAN, Cornell University.

Copies of the definite plan for higher examinations adopted by the regents February 11, 1892, were sent applicants and were at the registrar's desk for distribution.

Topics from question box till recess at 12:30.

Wednesday afternoon, July 6

Convocation was called to order at 3.30 p. m. by Regent T. Guilford Smith.

The seminar method of advanced instruction; its organization and details. To what extent should it be used in university, college and academy?

The seminarium: its advantages and limitations. Paper by Prof. E. R. A. Seligman, of Columbia College.

This paper, summing up the history and theory of the method, was printed and sent before Convocation to all applicants. Copies were also at the registrar's desk.

Limitations and dangers.

Prof. EPHRAIM EMERTON, Harvard University.

Advantages and limitations.

Pres. J. G. SCHURMAN, Cornell University.

Seminar method in undergraduate work.

Chanc. JAMES H. CANFIELD, University of Nebraska.

General discussion:

Pres. E. BENJAMIN ANDREWS, Brown University.

Prof. GEORGE STUART FULLERTON, University of Pennsylvania.
Prof. FRANCIS H. STODDARD, University of the City of New York.
WILLIS BOUGHTON, M. A., University of Pennsylvania.

Topics from question box till recess at 5 p. m.

Wednesday, 7 p. m. Kenmore hotel

Annual Convocation dinner with after-dinner speeches strictly

limited to five minutes.

Thursday morning, July 7

Convocation was called to order at 9:40 a. m. by Bishop Doane.

Study of economic and social science in university, college and academy: paper by Pres. John F. Crowell, Trinity College, N. C.

Discussion:

Pres. JAMES MAC ALISTER, Drexel Institute, Philadelphia.

Prof. HERBERT E. MILLS, Vassar College.

Prof. HERBERT B. ADAMS, Johns Hopkins University.

Prin. W. R. PRENTICE, Hornell Free Academy.

Prin. F. J. CHENEY, Cortland Normal School.
Prin. W. E. BUSTEN, Ulster Free Academy.

Sup't EDWIN E. ASHLEY, Troy.

PRIN. D. C. FARR, Glens Falls Academy.

Report of committee on necrology, by C: W: Bardeen, editor School bulletin, Syracuse, chairman. Only name, position, age and date of death are read, as the notices are printed in full in the proceedings.

Memorial meeting of friends of the late Assistant Secretary of the University, Dr Albert Barnes Watkins.

Memorial prayer by Bishop William Croswell Doane.

Biographical sketch for the proceedings by Prin. Orlo B. Rhodes Adams Collegiate Institute.

Remarks by former associates.

Ex-Prin. N. T. CLARKE, Canandaigua.

Prin. D. C. FARR, Glens Falls Academy.

Prin. HENRY WHITE CALLAHAN, Kingston Academy.
Prof. H. S. WHITE, Cornell University.

Thursday afternoon, July 7

Convocation was called to order at 3.10 p. m. by Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler, chairman of Convocation council.

University extension. Practical workings of university extension.

This subject will be taken up where it was left by the last Convocation. Discussion on the actual working of the extension system in America, omitting history, theory, and foreign experience.

Class work in extension teaching.

JOSIAH H. PENNIMAN, University of Pennsylvania.

Teaching mathematics to extension classes.

Prof. EDWIN S. CRAWLEY, University of Pennsylvania.

Report on New York centers.

RALPH W. THOMAS, Regents' office.

General discussion:

Prof. GEORGE STUART FULLERTON, University of Pennsylvania.
Prof. W: H. MACE, Syracuse University.

Prin. MARCELLUS OAKEY, Little Falls Academy.

Award of Library School prize of $100 for best essay on "Relation of university extension to local libraries."

PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS

Tuesday evening, July 5

The Convocation was called to order at 8 P. M. by Bishop William Croswell Doane. Prayer was offered by Warden R. B. Fairbairn of St Stephen's College, Annandale, N. Y.

ADDRESS OF WELCOME ·

Bishop Doane-It may be necessary for me to say at the outset, not to anybody who lives in Albany but to some of our friends who are gathered here from outside -I think perhaps it may not be necessary for me to say it, for I am sure you will find it out for yourselves before very long-that I am not Mr George William Curtis, that I am not Chancellor of the University of the State of New York. If anybody is more disappointed than I am in the necessity of my standing here in his place I should be very glad to shake hands with him. It is a very great regret to the regents of the University of the State of New York and to this University Convocation that that distinguished gentleman and scholar of whom the University is as proud as the state of New York is for his life-long reputation in letters, in politics and public life is clean and clear-it is a matter of infinite regret, I say, to this Convocation that the Chancellor is unable to be here. By that sort of coincidence which is described by the saying that extremes meet, in the place of the head of the University of the State of New York there stands here the tail, because I am the latest and youngest of the board of regents. It is my duty, however, leaving aside personal questions and personal considerations to

address myself to the task in hand. It is indeed a great privilege to meet in this Convocation, held in the oldest incorporated city in the United States, the friends and promoters of the great work of education. The fact that I am the newest and greenest member of the board of regents gives me I think the privilege and right to say certain things which older members of the board who have had something to do with shaping its course and controling its career would be too modest to say.

The University of the State of New York is an institution which, it seems to me, is very largely misunderstood. I remember two or three years ago when the Chancellor, filling the place which I am filling to-night, made a statement in his own most admirable way of the peculiar character of the institution which is called the University of the State of New York, differentiating it absolutely and entirely from any remotest relation or likeness either to the English or continental university. It is purely and absolutely an American institution in that it stands for things which are very valuable and very important. It stands for everything that goes to care for the difficult and detailed administration of educational interests of the highest order in the state of New York. It stands for the elevation of this whole matter of education in the academies and high schools of New York; and I think I may say farther than that, in its colleges and technical universities. As a new-comer in the board of regents and a new member of this University of New York, may I say to you who are gathered here from this state and from other sister states, that in the first place the office of the regents and I can say it with the utmost possible independence and impersonality is one of the most elaborate, one of the most laborious, one of the most difficult, one of the most thoroughly administered departments of the state of New York. Nobody, unless he has taken pains to go into the office in its busy hours, hours that begin, I was going to say, at sunrise and stop at sunset, has any idea of the amount of work which is done there. The eight-hour law has not found its way into the regents' office yet, wherever else it may be in vogue. There is no office in this great capitol that is more carefully, thoroughly and nobly administered than the office, specially of the Secretary, of the board of regents, to whom everybody owes very much for the admirable administrative work of the University. I should like farther than that to call the attention of those who are here to two or three things that lie outside the question of administrative detail. The work of the University means not merely the distribution of several funds of money appropriated by the state, it means not merely overseeing the

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