Show jo EDUCATIONAL 0 MATTERS t I ThoAgr cultural CollegeIts Aim Scopo Purpose and Equipment Equip-ment t IV IIOF ELIAlI MAC WAIf j Agriculture neon art ii I at old at the human race Agriculture as a science Is of only rtccnl devtljpment II It Ii I nol illllln the process or eiolullon Saga claus American statesmen taw long ago that the tilling of the soil the foundatIon of all Industries the Industry without which there never hat been and never can be any clillluilon the Industry winch II carried on successful recoinitea more natural tows employ more natural forces demands greater Intelligence kill and patience but promises more certain returns and aflords more sails if fAction than any other calling should be specially fostered and hould have placed at Ira disposal special facilities for lit iclenllfic development they wisely provided therefore for Its encouragement en-couragement and support Nearly half a century ago Michigan established an I Industrial school under the auspices of the State Agricultural society A quarter ol II century ago other states began to eitabllsh such school Gradually various other departments have been added until at length many have become i i be-come universities like Cornell Champaign Cham-paign Columbus and Iurdue Now i every stale and territory his In school of this character rllherasan Independent Indepen-dent Institution or a department of Its stats university Our Institution Is four tears old One of the youngest of the agricultural colleges yields to none In Its enterprise enter-prise and determination to become a listclass Institution whose object shall be the Intelligent Investigation and application ap-plication of subjects relating to agriculture agricul-ture anl the mechanic and domestic arts Hut le > ond the education ol young men and yonne women Into higher methods rdo better processes In i their chosen Industries this education undertake to guide them Into a more I cultured and practical 1 manhood and i womanhood There cl Is nothing original In Us Idea It has had the good fortune take able to select the best Ideas and best methods established In a score or more of older schools of the same son from Maine th California Men and women trained In these older schools for their special lines of work have been placed In Us faculty Subjects whose value for their purpose has Men proved beond question have been placed In Us I curriculum organisation equipment means ol Illustration methods instruction instruc-tion at well as Us fundamental purpose hive been approved In the Institutions horn which they have been tramp anted If It achieves I lit I urpose 1 like Us I prede cessuars H will r only I dignify 1 the choncur ottabor but II wlf Illumine with anew tight the pills of the larmer I he methanlrlan Ire hoiisf wife a new In I ref an ne > pica u c will urge them i uiwurd to further I improvement It will bring the Intellect the aid 01 the hand and awaken an appreciation of the dJI I full dignity ol their chosen pursuits tthile still in Its pioneer stage < < sllll subject to chills and levers mostly chilli Illi rapidly gelling out of tie nags brush and while to tar pi Ihng brush soil pKknlC up rocks grading lawns and digging ditcho have I shunted no I remarkable opportunity fur the application appli-cation of science the farm and garden and orchard and heids the hli ary Ulior atoeiei antI shops Ihat have been mean lime developing already offer meant and material lot careiul Investigation I We stand today well equipped for work and able to meet all just and reasonable demand tout I short yeaia amply demonstrate the ability of the college to dos great woik and render lIre clluens ol this Territory nllmable acrvlce More than seven hundred students have already taken advantage of In facilities Twenty men and women mature enough to have arrived Independent reatone I conclusions on their subjects but young I enough lo be lull ol teal and enthusiasm I In their work now comprise the acuity I Instruction Hut cltiient want to know more fully I the detallt loourplant ourpersonntl our purpose Thinking men are not utl < hd with lies general statements The location Ii I beautiful the Cache Valley la one ol the most charming In the errltory situated I on a bench just east of the city of Logan The college overlooks the enure valley with its rich field and thriving villages The I 1c Ehb I IT I cluster I ol colege buildings situ itest < n the brow ol I the hill and having In background ol mountain scenery Is an Imposing I sight from the city The clean well lighted I well lurnislied clati and lecture room he broad corridors I the well eihrrtirI library and laburj lotlt give the Inside ol lIe building as much attracllvness as Ihe situation and surrounding give to the outside Hut buildings I and apparatus and libraries do not make a college l at1 he old collegians r was a collection of men men lo Ittcn men to learn This Is still Ihe essential thing The college has the following drlraslnoenls the proietsors In whkh with their aultlantt do work In matt ol the dillerent course AtL botany soil hortkullur cheimstr I physics mathematics veterinary science I bIology hngllsh Ilieraiure mudern language elocution mechanical nil neenng civil and million II cng ruelinx I domestic economy sewIng musli bookkeeping and business law military science mental and moral science and lollllcal economy A notion sometime prevails that ecaiisa thesu schools are called agricultural agri-cultural colleges nothing can be Itarned III them but laming corn digging potatoes milking cows breaking bronchus and hoeing turnIp How false this is may be easily shown 11 I tended Insliucllon Is given In farming 41 I lions tho tcitnllfic sideIke nl > > otlilun and appl al n or tIle lawiof I agnrul tutalchtni I iii bum physiology the retailor < jl i 1 to vegetation and offertlhiersa d moisture to both cultivation culti-vation column nl marketing of crops together with Ihr < ire ol firm buildings and ken enenu and Ihe breeding and maniiim nt if shock Theoretical Instruction Ii I wit plemented Illustrated and enforced I y actual practice on a II arm ol one IumnrhrrI I = et with modern Inilldlnp lmileni > nlt and the best I breeds of animals I rtilt firm I sup puted to be managed according to the Cn fne g beat methods so mat the 1 students who rightly use them pportunliki may mIn 1 n 7 n1 the most enent A knowledge and skill In molt of the detailstrie fundamentals of arming The departments of botany hortlcul lure chtm str > physics btorog animal Industry veterinary Klenci are directly conlribuiory tu the science ol agriculture Iach Iron its fine laboratory and III valuable 1 val-uable apparatus toe Illustrating The hortIcultural department Its expert menial gardei and forcing house lo Illustrate class rrsm Inttructlon The animal Industry department hat Its farms with fl ckt and herds and Its dat y house wnii all the facilities for making butler and cheese The vtler mary department has Its collection of anatomical aisrl I physiological specimen Us museum dissecting room and opcr atnig room 1 ha < chrmlcal < physical department have their laboraloriM where gase liquids I solid mineral lolls I foods anything compound may be tiusrworthily ilyied Into In ultimate ulti-mate element and other proportions Here sludenli may not only lee the Instructor Illustrate the principles In the ulllh llhe er lecture but they themselvetmsy repeat vary and verily hu work Thli Ii alto true ol the work and the equipment the oilier natural science departments It will be seen that hoehg corn and sprouting potatoes do not constitute all the Instruction tntrmitf Hut there are several oilier course of study hostile the agricultural court The grant ol land from the United Stales < ronleinplaleit endowment support and ntenance of at least one college whose leading olject shall be without I eicludlng other classical and scientific iludle and Including 1 military I tactics to I Ht teach such branches as are allied lo agriculture and the mechanic arts Inttructlon In the mechanic art Is I under Ihe term of the grant as Impera live oslo agriculture The promoter uf Ihe land Kraut were In advance of the general public sentiment lit leading 1 nlrlls saw Ihat In twa near future In duslrlal training In I all III phrases would i be a > oicn actor Incur system if IsnI f education and I Hut at Ihe I mechanical I Industries grew Instruction In the I mechanic am woul I become a com modify ol lively demand It has been Hi for nearly a decade In college all sricr the country some of the brightest I minds hate been devoting themselves tu this lIeu line ol work Comments ml I wI en I urope much our senior In tunic In dustiles hung ago saw the necessity for I Ibis kind of education and lor a half century has been git Ing special attention to technological schuuii and loraard Ing the siltnces underllng all the Industrie TIre result has been astonishing astonish-ing inlandonce Imptiial a mistress 01 the ldlllal world as ol lIre commercial com-mercial world became alarmed at tIre competition of lg nations that Ion decade hl ai hid been her greatest purchaser In veillgaton showed that ability 10 compile with I her I In manufacture was attributable to the schools ol f technology and mechanic arts which other nallunt had had the foresight establish more than I aonl 1 hd to 0 ant nl or uch thought that l > rrt i schools wi tl I or IIIlvale benevolence tl > y Ihouhl be supported I I palroooe Epcrlencer f lUll notion Tie o ru tra planilMMnt M IS uncertain I enpevni I anditow All t cdu ai n pensive and to bomd l JtnO l m IbeafTorded sod sustaIned tr Ih stale Industrial education ii mu n ore expensive than classical or lib ral t1u anile It take longer to nleimh I lacllltlei It requIte re-quite more p l II requires larger ol in tru ion It took Europe corps hall l a u y U fi find tls I I out I but the re uln it Mperlment warranted tilid ranted the a m < We In Amer i i l ii rt special reasons for tottering th s kud I ol 1 education Our Indusmal art < arc in iheir infancy y 01 we must comi rtc 5 Ih the full grown of the old Industrial orkanMini world Men an rh I science It I now nra I far develope 1 hhlu t II mire artltan the man who gun ji hi > is lime and his whole energy l ilr nmual labor or bus employment rarnt pirvark Y have any CompretwiMif inca ledge of the Industry In-dustry In whir Pr 1 o rn and which he I would promut Itt len 1 under our system of clotru ire Iudoo of labor rel rel Iw ia the laborer i uaiy riirws only one thing and csrrprnluio i < nly one of tIre nunyoptralio Hat en to makeup a product He tmrlalii Ignorant of the Ifrr principle In ii it I He It only a machine pan u stem machinery The Industry I g urls n one way by the skill of this I iuan i machine but It II looses Is anomlrr oaf lry the II lack ol the Intelligent losurriie itemut llw lack of Ihe nun ol irruiuior I thought and experience Ie Iy I ol apprentlceahlp are over N i American buy will remain HOn yearn with master lo the pro cewea and I rrnr i Pie 1 ol Indiuiry To use a nk < PIIIIII i Life It I too > hortlo elicit l rcvea arln picking up the knowledge necessary to the mechanic Our Indiislnrt while not yet the con Irolllne factor in our body politic are already one of the tremendous powers i Our political ulure Is I to be shaped bar ely by our ability to manufacture as well and as chcatily as any other nation To accomplish II It Intelligence must be II put Into our si ops and theoretical Instruction In-struction and manual training must be put Into our xrhools Our shops and our schools must lie occupied by American fCal al 1 J rnn + Icon muscle and American brain Too larke a rportion of our master mechanic and foremen are foreigners the 1ud cre I r uroptan technical 1 Khool or of apprenticeship not In keeping with the genius uf our Institutions Institu-tions We must continue Import skilled rrr lame or else educate them here T > cre iou large and well denned place then for the work ol our me char put cr erg neerung eparlmentt where may be taught me adence on which our Industrie depend and where piadlke may bu had In all manner of I CMCllce hj rr Iroms bran anil wioJttirk The I workshop work-shop Is I no lunger I ItKient In this there is I neither time nor opiMirtumty lora lor-a ditcuision ol general principle on which lIne Industry It I bated there must be Institutions capible of making Intelligent mechanics engineers nuchln 1111 expert In ill Ihe mechanical law I of heat sound light motion In the kinds und strength of material ol application ap-plication of force ol Inertia ol friction and rtustance steam electricity and all the law ol chemIstry with enough manual skill lo embody tins knowledge I in a concrete product Any man with this knowledge can toon and easily distance Isis competitor Ignorant the general prim iple of science Industrial skill is much more serviceable wines II goes hand m hand with scientific knowledge know-ledge The oltect of IbIs mechanical department le of the colege Is to give the noon man who hmos aptitude and taste r In this direction a thorough course In drawing and detlgn thorough Instruction In all Ihe principle of science mentioned give him dally work at the lorge the lathe Ihe bench the engine and at the end of Ills course send him out nta Journeman or foreman or engineer with an Intelligence fitting him lor leadership with a moral purpose not above working himself and with hit capability of directing work developed Such a man It I on the road lo the head l of r his Industry whether In the shop or In the engineering corps It mutt be granted lint college bred mechanic are generally shunned by employee because of their tendency to beabovBthelrcalling Thelrattltude I toward labor depends on Ihe college where they are eeucated The average literary college necessarily tend to educate away from work It Is liable to breed contempt for a manual labor and the man who perform It too often Rivet Its studenli very stilted notions about the dignity of education and culture nnd Ihe eialted kind of work that awaits them at college graduate grad-uate Students possessing this notion are not calculated to blossom out Into the sonlmunnchnue aggrtwlve enterprising citizens who I IJel nIJ IIII = me ready to l do anything honorable till something better Irons ul and sure to make lh < lr ow n way In the world I believe It possible for a college lo educate edu-cate the scholar and preserve them the-m hinlc to give culture to the man and yet save the farmer to make the woman Intellectual and not destroy fie housewife I believe the Agntultural College of Utah Is I such an Institution It Is I the purpose throughout the student career at the college tu give to manual to make labor U Illustrative an Intellectual of principle j character I and tuggetllve of such Inquiries at become a mind awake to the beulleof the natural world and the grandeur ol the forces and the laws I that explain the iIOnnd Ila iIOnn operation and products of nature Labor may have added halt Intellectual dlgnit Not all men however un till the toil Not off men who do not till tho toll can inanuficture the material produced pro-duced In the Held tIre forest the mine Some mutt attend f to the exchange and Interchange of commoJliies To succeed suc-ceed In luis and render a real service to their communities men must conduct business on sound principle The law ol HUUIH and timin dust be observed Uniform and Intelligible records of transaction must he made where debits and codla I are Involved The law governing gov-erning In commercial transaction mutt be understood Theprl clplesof finance as practiced In banking and other lorms of loaning and exchanging money mutt be clearly grasped 1 or theto purpose the Commercial Department It an im porlant part oO the school lere 1 bunk ing J < lnkl and business counter college col-lege currency and coiUge coin adord students opportunity to buy and sell on their own account to rent places of business and keep uccuralo accounts of all transactions lluilrcss Is made ut real at possible and a thorough study ol commercial It I Insisted on livery I thing hero It I on the boratory plan Our course In dometlc arts Is I Intended Intend-ed to educate home makers Home 1 happlnex depends largely on good healthsupplemented I by good II leellnj and good manners Good Health dcpendi lartrly on sound sleep and a healthy stomach Our crls are taught home I hygiene They are not above giving careful attention a bed and Its aur I rounding Energy virtue and religion depend largely on the condition of the I itomach and this depends on the Iual Ity and quantity of food A well fed msn reasons better loves more warmly give more generously prays more fervently fer-vently and Is I generally more agreeable than a tan cling I It it not uIwas true that a man unadorned un-adorned It I adorned Ihe most We all demand tidIness stole filnetl In the costumes f our lady Mends We all respect either man oryoman or ourselves our-selves the more lor being well dressed KecognUIng the Importance uf this etc menl ol household and loclal economy we teach our girls lo desIgn cut lit and make urafllI kInds of garments from theslmplest collar to the most elaborate ball or reception costume or wedding IfFeeer addition to facilities fur these equipment for practical home life opportunity It l afforded for the shad history llteratue and lIne commonly com-monly spoken modern languages excepting ex-cepting Ameilcan slang I Any young woman therefore In completing this courie ought to be able la make or direct an Ideal home and do her part of all social duties no matter In what community her lot may fall No school the land mare fully rca hiss the Ideal of the new education Learn to do by doing At every step application goes with principle ehac not merely a school ol observation obser-vation and Instruction but A school where student work In all Its depart tnents on the farm In the garden In the laboratories the museums on the rostrum on the drill ground on the dissecting and operating table and In the ihops I may have Insisted so strongly on the material facilities afforded lor Instruction Instruc-tion 55 to have given an Impression that little care or stress U I laid upon Ihe genrral culture of our students there is such an Impression I wish to correct It Nothing could be more mistaken and nothing It farther Irom our Intention Inten-tion Wo Cannot hgnnore the fact that the man and the woman are before the farmer the mechanic or the housewife and that any system of education to be harmonious and complete must Include that liberal culture that loms so eaten hal a function In the permanent work of any worthy life W e do not forget that IrI IfII pure Lnglish sound logic I wide historical histori-cal reading n thorough knowledge ol the fundamental principles of Ihe law governing commerce and governing octal life well dehncd view on political politi-cal science and mental I and moral philosophy philo-sophy are necessary element In a practical education Ior 1 all these ample provision < Is made Hut above all beyond be-yond all we remember that morality and virtue and religion are the cornerstone corner-stone ol a true character and that our Institution should I by precept and example ex-ample I Inculcate pure morals and the highest virtue and should l recognlie In the fullest sense our obligations to our Divine i I Ilcnelactor url It Is for those who administrate Its alfalri and conduct Its exercises to assure the people of this territory that by our words and our works our leaching and our character we will bo true lo the highest duty and that at lar at In ut lies we will preserve Ihe Institution tree from the contamination contamina-tion of vice and will lend back from our tails the young men and young women committed lo our care not only uninjured I by their college associations I n but better lilted to become good useful I loyal beneficent citIzens We asserted thai while Ihe German had produced lol poeLi palnten tnhaniur culptor ichotari iclenllsti and slngr the American had produced a country full of Inventors statesmen and money king Wnl the C ermant are Conquer log the world ol mind the American had been conquering the world of mailer He would lion naturally and Knslbly have Germany conquer both TIre lad II that for I Year or mote Wi Ham had been eating American and II American pork anil those articles com are woiklng out In American enterprise |