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Show 1 : ; I 1 Utah's Famous Agricultural School I p S Unquestionably Logan's choicest possession is the State Agricultural Agri-cultural College. It is a possession which Logan City and Cache y county cherish, or should cherish, most jealously, and support most loyally. It is an institution of which the entire state of Utah is justly ; proud. I To those who are familiar at first hand with the magnificent, J sweeping outlines and smiling fertile expanse of Cache valley, any at- f tempt at description seems beggarly, inadequate. To those not so t fortunate it is quite futile to make even the merest attempt to suggest the beauty and variety of the views from College Hill. On the com- manding eminence just east of Logan the shining walls and red 1 turrets of the many college buildings seen distinctly through the smokeless air, in bold relief against the towering Wasatch mountains, are visible from almost every part of the valley. The annual suc- cession of shimmering, dreamy, Indian-summer scenes, the clear-cut snowy expanse of winter, and the teeming odorous, stirring sights of J spring, arc a source of daily inspiration to both students and teachers. Ever since its foundation the school has been generously dowered by the Federal as well as the State government, and as a result its equipment and facilities have reached a very high plane of perfection. The one aim of the institution is to serve the State. Notable and val-I val-I liable additions or improvements are made each year in order to facili- 1 tate the training of the future citizens of Utah in all the arts and sciences in the production of wealth and its proper uses, in the correct estimate of "plain living and high thinking." The most potent factor in this all-important process of developing develop-ing men and women is the teaching force. At the A. C. U. there arc nearly sixty men and women of varying ages, of varying degrees of ' scholastic training, from various parts of the Union, but all united in zealous, earnest endeavor to raise the standard of physical; intellectual and ethical development of our population. All are united in hearty approval of the new, the industrial education ; at the same time it is constantly borne in mind that financial success is not all of life, and proper attention is given to the developing of the aesthetic emotions. (i Chief among all the excellences of the new education is the mar- t vellous combination of intelligence and manual craft, the application : ! of science to every-day processes. As a result routine and drudgery disappear, and what was formerly the most mechanical operation as- sumcs a new significance. To the educated farmer the trickling of the water down the garden rows, the fertilization of the strawberry blossoms, blos-soms, the incubation of the chicks, arc fraught with hidden meaning. All the manifold avenues to wealth become equally tempting, and not tempting because of the goal only, but also because of the interesting, inter-esting, absorbing vistas along the way. And how numerous, how bewildering these avenues to wealth in our young state! The Agricultural College has merely begun its f work in point of time, yet already it has powerfully stimulated, or ; altogether originated, such industries as arid farming, poultry craft, j horticulture, dairying; it has done much to inculcate a rational use ,j of irrigation water, to popularize thoroughbred cattle, sheep, swine j and poultry, to emphasize the importance of organization for commer cial purposes in rural communities. All this information, and much in addition, is disseminated throughout the Stat three ways. First , and foremost the College acts through its sU. itnts, each of whom serves in a measure as a nucleus of educational ferment. Secondly, 1 thousands and thousands of the. people arc reached each winter and interested in-terested in vital, educational questions through the Farmers' Institutes Insti-tutes conducted by the College. Finally, the results of experiments, and much other agricultural information, is distributed free in the form of bulletins. Through its students, the College acts most directly and most extensively. I low is the information instilled into their minds and memories? Largely by actual practice, by repeatedly doing the thing they wish to learn. It is well worth a trip to Logan to sec the students stu-dents at work in the many shops and laboratories of the A. C. U. It is a sight which cannot be paralleled in the State, for nowhere else is practical education taught so extensively. Whether you see the girls in their white aprons cooking delicious meals in the kitchens and serving the same in the most approved style, or the boys, score-card score-card in hand, judging thoroughbreds and grades at the barns, whether your ear is deafened by the clatter of a large roomfull of typewriters, clicking all at once in the Commercial Department, or ydur eye delighted de-lighted by hundreds of pure-bred chicks "just out" in the incubators operated by students of poidtry craft you arc sure to be at once interested and instructed. In the roaring forges and clanging anvils of the blacksmith shop, in the buzz and hum of the great carpentry shops, where hundreds of men and boys arc becoming skilled mechanics, me-chanics, you feel the promise of a great industrial future, and a triumphant tri-umphant justification of practical education. A scene at the veterinary veter-inary clinic, where scores of farm animals with all manner of injuries and diseases are operated upon by the students themselves, is full of interest, especially to the farmer, whose most valuable horse may die in an hour for lack of proper treatment. A class of students in the orchard, pruning or budding, or grafting or spraying, is especially significant just now, in view of the hundreds of acres being planted in apples and pears. A glimpse into the busy, cheerful sewing rooms where, from morning till night, scores of girls arc learning to make their own clothes, or into the commodious laundry, where they arc learning how to wash and iron them, would be sure to delight any mother or father of girls. The dairy with its white-capped students is another scene of spirited, bustling activity; so is the great bookkeeping book-keeping room ; so are the conservatories and greenhouses, the machine shops. The laboratory method is especially prominent in the subjects of chemistry, physics, zoology, bacteriology and mineralogy. The departments de-partments of Music, Art and English also follow it almost exclusively. In short, the Agricultural College is the school where students learn to do by doing. That it is the right method for this age is amply demonstrated by the remarkable success of the A. C. alumni. Few schools have greater occasion to be proud of their graduates, for, without exception, the alumni of the Agricultural College have won distinction in sonic line or other. Many have entered the government service in remunerative remun-erative positions in some of the bureaus of the Department of Agriculture, Agri-culture, Forestry, Plant Pathology, Reclamation Service, etc. A number num-ber have gone into the professions, particularly that of teaching, and it is an important fact that the demand for teachers of agriculture, domestic science and arts, mechanic arts, and other practical subjects, always exceeds the supply. This fact, in connection with the unlimited un-limited opportunities for practical scientific agriculture in the State, proves that the Agricultural College has before it a great and growing grow-ing mission. |