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Show Interesting Resume of What The Utah State College Has To Offe r Radio talk given Au: 30 by W. D. Porter KSL on Logan Ch j ber of Commerce ; gram. j t College has Rapid Grov The following is weekly radio talk off by the advertising com tee of the Logan chan of commerce and was en this afternoon over L by Prof. W. D. Pc ' o the Utah State Agri tural College. Hello Friends! I'm happy to chat with yo day for a few minutes about State Agricultural College at I Because I can't determine .ach one of you would lik know about this eminent in tion of learning, I'm goin pick out a few things that a to be of state and regional In It was in 1888, just 47 ago, that the legislative assi of Utah accepted the t rn the national law passed by gress on July 2, 1862. Undei act 200,000 acres of land granted to the state of ! This land was to be sold the proceeds establlsh.d as a petual fund with the in going to maintain the collegi Other federal grants fol from that time up to a few ago when thj Jones Banl Act passed congress which additional funds to our state lege for teaching, extension i reasearch work. Just 47 years ago the stats islature appropriatedl SIS.OO' start the college; and ( county and Logan city gavf acres of land as a college 1 ing site. Through the foresightednes; Integrity of state officials, State College has enjoyed but healthy growth. In the time of many of you, the brush delta chosen as a c ! site, has been transformed a thriving educational center have seen the $15,000 buildi; the first appropriation grow a plant valued at two and half million dollars. We have ' a student body grow fron students in 1890, when the c j doors first opened for Instn to an association of 2421 sti during the 193fc35 school y This growth has been unu rapid during the past ten The chief reason for this re able growth is explained by dent Elmer G. Peterson wh said that the College was fo on the basis of human Those wise officials who pi the college courses, did so an und irstanding of what tr is necessary to operate the homes, businesses, and ind of this rapidly developing try. They also had in min addition of refinement and c to the citiz tis of this regioi economic crisis through whi (Continued on Page Eig Interesting Resume of 1 What the Utah State College has to Offer (Continued from Page One) have been struggling has borne out the fact that the curriculum of the Utah State Agricultural College was wisely constructed and intel-1 intel-1 ligently executed, i Largely through this and other ; i Institutions, agriculture is being j made over into a new profession, I based on cooperation and scien-: scien-: tific aid furnished largely through i the Land-Grant oalleges. j Our authorities are well aware j that the world needs trained men j and women. They tell us that we i need ten trained leaders today where we needed but one yester-j yester-j day. The country needs econo-i econo-i ' mists, experts in soil erosion and j soil management, land-use plan- ners, homemakers, agricultural and j home demonstration ag nts, research re-search workers. foresters. wild life and game experts, engineers, chemists, bacteriologists, teachers, math maticians, business men, journalists, dramatists, artists, and many others who are trained in the basic arts and sciences. Efficient Effi-cient training in all these and other lines is now given at your State Agricultural College. Our colleg eofficials believe that the aesthetic and cultural subjects moist be emphasized. To meet these demands the curriculum offers of-fers excllent training in literature, litera-ture, speech, dramatics, art and music. The Utah State Little Theatre The-atre has won national recognition because of the type of plays chosen for presentation and thi professional manner in which the dramas have "been staged. The |