Comments of letter of Mr. Coupland retiring Regent of the University to the members of the Legislature. Paragraph 2 of this letter states: "The act submitting the question specifically provides that should the voters decide to develop the city campus then "THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE IN ANY EVENT SHALL BE LOCATED AT THE STATE FARM" and one-third of the building fund provided by the law to be used for the erection of buildings thereon." In so far as known one seriously wishes to vary from this policy. At one time during the last Legislature session it was suggested by prominent alumni and others that the College of Agriculture should be brought to the city campus. This idea was not practicable because it was necessary to maintain the agricultural department at the Farm on account of the Farm being the seat of the School of Agricultural and the Experiment Station. To bring them to the city campus would mean duplication and waste. Paragraph 3 says: "In spite of this plain provision of the law and understanding and agreement of members of the last Legislature who supported it the Board of Regents now propose to continue the policy of compelling the students in the College of Agriculture to do a large proportion of their work at the City Campus". Let us now get a clear conception of what is meant by the work of the College of Agriculture. In accordance with the law and a reasonable interpretation of it the Regents are developing to the best of their ability all the departments that are strictly agricultural at the Farm. Mr. Coupland then refers to those things which the faculty of the College of Agriculture desire their students to take which are not agricuture such things as rhetoric drill history and electives including modern languages engineering subjects and possibly even football. In other words he appears to wish the University to build up a separate and distinct University at the Farm in order that a student of agriculture may have such occasional non-agricultural subjects as the course for the time being might require. The next paragraph says: "As a member of the Board of Regents and having in mind the highest and best interests of the College of Agriculture I do earnestly protest and advise against the continuance of the policy which the law referred to sought to prevent". Mr. Coupland is at his old tricks again in sending in a report to the members of Legislature as a Regent of the University. One would think that considering the result of the election and the defeat of his pet scheme that he would not expect his name to have great weight. However he is improving his last opportunity to use his official title. The next paragraph says: "All of the academic and technical work necessary for a student to graduate from the College of Agriculture should be provided at the State Farm thus obviating the great loss of time and money to these students which the proposed policy would entail." As a matter of fact the Regents in their report to the Governor any that they are endeavoring to make as little travel between the two places as possible. Whenever the intructor can be sent to the Farm more conveniently than sending the students to the city campus the instructor will be sent instead of the students. This applies of course only to the non-agricultural subjects. The agricultural subjects will be taught at the Farm in any case. It should be remembered further that the Agricultural College has several courses for its students. Some are designed to make agricultural engineers some are designed to make good housewives some are designed to make foresters some will doubtless be used to turn out agricultural editors county agents and other leaders of agricultural thought. As a matter of fact of the courses listed for convenienced under the name of College of Agricultural only one or two courses are designed primarily to turn out farmers. By putting an extreme construction that would compel the Regents to duplicate on the Farm all of these things Regent Coupland is evidently trying to enforce a policy which would compel the Regents to build up a University at the Farm such as the people of the state by an overwhelming majority refused to move out from the city campus. Even now the faculty of the College of Agriculture with the help of Dean Engberg and the Chancellor are endeavoring to work out a course of such a character that a student can take all his work at the Farm. This will be done by permitting the students of the College of Agriculture to take their military drill with the students of the School of Agriculture to send certain instructors from the city campus to the Farm to gove certain academic courses and to eliminate some of the academic work substituting agri cultural work for the same. It is not proposed to compel any students of the College of Agriculture to take this course but to make it possible for them to take it. It is believed that many of the students of the College of Agriculture will want to take advantage of the proximity of the great University so near to it. Plans are being worked out without duplication and waste whereby traveling back and forth will be reduced to a minimum if the students so desire. Regent Coupland says further: "The Agricultural College and Mechanics Arts was endowed by a gift from the United States of ninety thousand acres of land and has also and is now recieving a very generous yearly subsity from the Federal Government". This is true. Our College of Agriculture and our College of Engineering as Mechanical Arts is now interpreted by the Federal Government recieve and enjoy these federal funds. But there is no more reason in law precedent or in common sense for building up seperate department of academic subjects for agriculture than there is for engineering. As a matter of fact the whole question is one of schedule. In accordance with the law everything strictly agricultural will be at the State Farm. There are some academic things that it is well for a student of agricualture to know something about. If the Legislature will keep its hands off the Regents will arrange this so as to

conserve the students' time to develop the College of Agri culture and to avoid unnecessary duplication and waste. The tendency of the time is all in the direction of economy. Neighboring states have recalled from the agri cultural schools a great part of non-agricultural work and said "If you want it go to the State University". In conclusion the Regents intend to develop agriculture at the Farm to the very best of their ability. If a studnet wants to take all of his work at the Farm and not come to the city campus it will be arranged that he can do so by con fining himself very largely to agricultural subjects. Arrange ments of schedules along this line is now actually in progress but the Regents do not intend to unnecessarily waste the revenues of the state in accordance with an extreme con struction put on an initiative vote by a defeated candidate for office.