| Show How the Utah Agricultural College Has Forged Ahead I l Correspondence 1 GaAS SePt Sopt 16 Twenty years carll LOGo LOGAN L have passed since Inco the tho Agricultural Agricultural tural college coln frt gave Instruction Ion tion ton In the principles of ot scientific agriculture mechanic arts orl commerce and home economics The growth of or ortho tho the chol since then has hl been bell remark remarkable remak able l e A single structure then thell served as a homo home for all al depart departments ments of Instruction less lemma leI than n it dozen men main m n constituted the tine entire faculty and mans than O OO byn llYN and girls made modo up u utho uptime time the student body hod Now ow on the foothills east of nut ft Logan there are n more mote than tEnant 50 20 0 buildings occupied by b the various de departments of the lie great Industrial school The Th faulty faculty f ul comprise 70 10 well troll I trained and tho thu students number lumber more moors ore than n a thousand In spite of Its humble and IP feeble President Eliot lIot of Harvard who was S present I nt ot tho thin oj open Oln openIng tn Ing In exercises saw rant lIoW In iii Its Il plan of organization Iton Its 11 purpose and Ind Its II men tho the elements if t r greatness He lit predicted for fol the tho Institution a future of great grat and a 11 in n conversation with his hlA associates n In tn ten In yours lr litter Inter It I Is said d that he Inc od n a splendId tribute to tine the foresight ambition and unselfish un h labor of ot the time farmers in Utah who were liberally contributing from rein their hard corned funds to support an un Institution tile tho chief chie function of et which wits was wal to train young men and amid alli women for tOI Industrial pursuits It I Is I nn an especially fortunate nate thing that thin the founders ot of tho the school were at able abl o to secure ur u a I mite aie in a ii I section of the destined tn by nature flauiO to tie ho greatest create farming land In Cache val titi valley 11 ley Je to con t 1111 be found splendid 1 examples of nut lt 01 type of agricultural activity Im Inn 11 orchards thousand of at acres of or alfalfa and amid timothy mast ast Rt fields tolls of o su so sugar gar Ir rim beets Iehl largo large dry dr farms and anil equally large hinge Irrigated I rl tr is truck garden poultry fult farms antI attic attie le ranches make makeup up UI the th panorama i Tn from the col rol collego 01 lego III hill bill hi These are ar of o Inter cat to tha thu majority of the students for most of or thoin th nine are lre studying agricultural subjects s Agriculture Is by far fil thin the most moat popular I unit and Int best attended course coun given ghon at the tho college Last year GS 65 G per percent remit cent C 11 of nil all ni the male mAio students studying agrIcultural subjects Some Home of or them therm wore were In the dairy dalr some Rore were de do voting their time to veterinary medi medicine cine Ino and surgery others were studying agronomy a horticulture economic ento entomology entomology or 01 i lant pathology but all al were wert What ut a 1 contrast this presents to the tho existing In inn some of or tho the large lare universities where a n school of o agriculture Is IK maintained as a a n subordinate department and where tho Iho attitude of ot the student body by toward In Industrial du forces alt all nl t but ut the tho most courageous anti and Independent stu students sl students u dents Into the th cultural rather than practical courses from tho tine United States de tie of or agriculture tell t us that the tho character ter of ot the work done at nt tho the Utah Institution In compares favorably with wih tho work vork of oC tine the best land grant tnt colleges colef of ot America It I maintains higher stand standards Its ro re requirements ards arda mind and Ind Is h more exacting In 11 than many ln other agricultural tural turl colleges and Is li excelled by none Tho The womans building completed taut last year ear Is II tho the homo home of or tho the best bent equipped department of ot home heron hOln econom economics ics tl In the tine went vast we It I Is furnished with everything necessary for or thorough syn systematic ys work In inn cooking sowing sewing mil mali mi liner anti nil 01 other ether subjects pertaining to 10 the tine art of ot making Utah nr ll inn well nl be hi proud of at scientific technical tN school It I Is a I school hol for tho the common people |
