sentences:  Barringer disagreed, so Mann said he would appoint a Board of Visitors that was opposed to Barringer if the president did not resign.On 10 June 1912, Barringer tendered his resignation; the Board asked him to continue in office for another year until a new president could be selected.A year after Barringer's departure from V.P.I., the Smith–Lever Act of 1914 established a system of cooperative extension services, connected to the land-grant universities authorized by Congress.