Show dm Student Life Mondoy March to Utah State University 20 years ago" 'The name was changed ammonds said "We really were a university because we had been since 1914 ” wanting graduate degrees as the Agricultural College of Utah known first was The university and more recently as the Utah then as the Utah Agricultural College College State Agricultural Simmonds said the university has had a couple of periods of enrollment noticeably rapid growth in "One period was right after World War II when enrollment jumped because of all the returning veterans” the 3 000 students in one year 7 1977 Page 1 1 archivist said The most consistent growth period was from 1960 to 1968 lot of people wanted to He said reasons for the growth were that a the from War II baby boom kids all the and draft avoid the were just getting out of high school 1965 made money available to all of the A state bond passed in state's campuses of higher education for construction Simmonds said some of the newer buildings are the Fine Arts Building Business Building Fxceptional Child Center Center and the newest the Foods and Nutrition Building One who has seen a lot of the university's history is Moyle CJ Rice He has taught Knglish at USU for 40 years Rice said students general attitudes are much the same as when he of the modem communications system began teaching but the impact has made a difference "Students are a lot brighter today and better informed" he said I came there was "They have more of a world awareness When almost an attitude that the world began and ended in Utah or for some in Cache Valley Rice said there was more of a "high school” atmosphere about the post-Worl- s r i i college "Students were a lot d 'groupier' and everybody knew everybody" said ‘‘Of course the campus was much smaller then and " very few buildings that weren’t right around the quad Rice said he has never resisted change in the university "I’ve felt like almost ail the things that have happened he there were have been and I have no nostalgia for any particular era" he said "I would hope that we don't get much larger than we are maybe not beyond 10000 students " said he has been a retired USU professor George Knowlton associated with the university since he was a student in 1920 He was good n involved in teaching research and extension services and still does some research in entomology Knowlton said that when he came to USU students went to school six days a week and tuition was around $70 a year "A lot of us had help getting through school by drinking buttermilk" Knowlton said "The dairy store used to have a 20 gallon container of buttermilk with a spigot on it that students could drink for free " Knowlton said the agriculture school was then the biggest school on campus and its various clubs had many activities pep rallies and contests I The chemistry lob aOs one of many deportments situated in Old Mam from the plaster missing m the ceiling these students may have hod per orient tn 1893 Judging o successful ex I esr car crH si 1 3TI ? IP5 c 1 XT ’ e! St aid" r£- ft 5 Sl3£ LSar1 ut&‘ StaaTt or if s dors'- - st 101V Students of 1898 sat somberly through chapel exercises which were compulsory daily The chapel was situated in the south wing of Old Mam |