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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1871
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258 COMMITTEE ON E X P E R I M E N T . I will announce, as the committee called for [as the Committee on Experiments] by the resolution adopted this afternoon, the mover of the resolution, Mr., Flagg, of Illinois, Professor Miles, of Michigan, Professor Hamilton, of Pennsylvania, and Professor Prentiss, of New York, The Chair desires to scatter the appointments pretty widely over the country, and would like to have added one name from the more extreme West, and one from a State further East. Dr. Miles—I move the committee be increased by the addition of two names. The amendment was adopted. The Chairman—I add the names of President Denison, of Kansas, and Professor Peabody, of Massachusetts. The discussion fixed for this evening is now in order. RELATIONS OF SCHOOLS OF A P P L I E D SCIENCE TO ONE ANOTHER AND TO OTHER INSTITUTIONS. Professor Gilman—Mr. President and Gentlemen : The remarks I have to make this evening will be quite desultory, as I had no expectation of saying anything. I shall endeavor to shape them so as to draw out other gentlemen I see here, partly by stating some points upon which I am wanting information, and partly by suggesting some of the topics which seem to me of wide and lasting importance to the country. I observe, by your remarks, that the sentiments which prevail here have very particular reference to the matter of Agricultural improvements. My interest in all this, and in the agricultural aspect, is very great; but by no means restricted to it. I believe there is going through our country, at the present time, a very great change in the notions of intelligent people, respecting the higher, middle and lower education. It seems to me desirable that, whenever an opportunity occurs like this, we should talk over among ourselves, in the most informal manner, the principles which should guide us. I am afraid that what I shall say will seem to most of you as of very Eastern character, and I am frank to admit that my knowledge of these institutions is largely based on observations made among those of the East. My object is, in coming to the "West, to learn what you have learned here; for, so far as I can observe, you are much more free from routine, from the weights of precedent, and from long practiced usages, which
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