Show STUDENT LIFE 166 STUDENT LIFE Published Monthly by the Students of the Agricultural College of Utah STAFF JAMES T JARDINE Editor-in-ChiAssociate Editor E G PETERSON J EDWARD TAYLORBusiness Mgr DEPARTMENT EDITORS MISS MAY MAUGHAN Literary Student Affairs T C CALLISTER Departments J T CAINE III Locals A P MERRILL R H FISHER Alumni and Exchange ef The Agricultural College of Utah The following taken from the Presi- dent's report indicates something of our work and prospects: The Agricultural College of Utah is a national as well as a state institution It belongs to that class of educational institutions commonly called land grant colleges which were established in pursuance of an Act of Congress and which are maintained by both federal and state appropriations The College today comprises five distinctive schools: the School of Agriculture the School of Domestic Science and Arts the School of Commerce the School of Engineering and Mechanic Arts and the School of General Science also the Agricultural Experiment Station Its scope and work are in accord with the federal law and strictly in line with the spirit and policy of the best agricultural colleges of the country The mission of the Agricultural College of Utah is to assist in the great work of industrial education to meet the needs of the people for a "liberal and practical education” and to promote the development of the varied resources and industries of the state The value of the work done by any college can probably best be measured by the success of its graduates Nine graduates of the A C U are at present employed in the government service in the department of agriculture and the geological survey Representative graduates of the College are now teaching in the University of California the University of Wyoming the Agricultural College of Montana the Agricultural College of Utah and other institutions of higher learning Members of the present graduating class and of the Junior and Sophomore classes have been engaged for the summer in the government service The seventy-fiv- e creameries of this state are managed almost wholly by men who have received their training at the Agricultural College Besides these there are graduates and former students too numerous to mention who are engaged as successful busniess men engineers teachers and farmers in Utah and adjoining states The value of the work of the Agricultural Experiment Station is probably by the people of the state If the farmers were to adopt the suggestions made by the station regarding the time of cutting alfalfa and the suggestions regarding’ the different varieties of grains and grasses best adapted to Utah soils there would be saved annually hundreds of thousands of dollars The irrigation work of the station is conducted on a strictly scientific basis and is of inestimable value in the development of this arid region The last legislature ap- under-- estimated |