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Show 48 THE DESERET NEWS. The attention of the public is invited to this fact, and it is desired that it shall feel if it desires to give its children a liberal and practical education in the several pursuits and professions of life, at least the leading ones, that it will find at the Agricultural College a welcome lor its sons and daughters and an opportunity for the pursuit of an education along the lines of the gieit industries mentioned The News earlv in the history of the College informed the public of the purposes of the institution. These purposes have been steadily and Mgorously pur80x36 feet. The second year the faculty had in- sued, and to d ly a visitor w ill find not creased from eight to fourteen, and now alone those evidences that foreshadow it numbers eighteen, with a recent ap- practical lines of work, but will find the pursued through pointment whose services begin in May, practicums making nineteen. The work of this fac- the several departments of the College, ulty is distributed among the five depart- that is to say, they will find young men means of illustration foi the several deThis expenditure includes partments. the purchase of some 3,01 books for the library, and a good beginning for a large museum. In this connection it may, with propriety, be stated that the completed building will contain a very large and fine museum 80 feet square, and library room of the same size, each being appropriately divided into sections; also a military drill hall 60x80 feet, with its associated armory and lecture room; a chapel that will seat about 1,400, and a dairy department ments mentioned, and includes an officer of the United States army, Lieutenant H. D. Styer, who has charge of military drill and science. The law makes the leading object of the College to be the teaching of such branches of learning as relate to agriculture and the mechanic arts, but adds: Including military tactics, not excluding the classics, in order to give a liberal and practical education to the industrial classes. True to the organic law the College makes prominent in its name its agricultural bias, yet it is made just as much its true function to teach mechanic arts, military tactics and such other branches as are essential to give a lib eral and practical education to the industrial classes. This includes, then, the several great industries, and includes not only a practical education but a liberal one. the youth who attend such schools to acquire the habit of observation and research, of original thought and action. And furthermore, because it is intended to educate the great farm public in the philosophy and art of farming through the presentation of discoveries made, by bulletins and otherwise. This department, then, deals directly with the economical problems of agricul-ture, and presents to the eye of youth who go out upon the farm processes and forces, the laws of agriculture in application, that they may carry them into the 1 affairs of life. This hasty sketch of the growth of this new factor, the Agricultuial College, in our educational system iscerta inly in-- I dicative of future prosperity. There is not in any department of its growth in- - Agiuciitural Coliegf of Utah. The graduates on the farm and in the barn on the farm dication of paralysis. with plants, or in the barn with stock, or seem likely to be very evenly dishandling tools, investigating diseases of tributed among the general departcattle under charge of the veterinarian, ments, every department being well in contact with the products of horticulrepresented ture, or pruning and grafting under the Perhaps the best augury of its future charge of the horticulturist ; or in the prosperity rests in the friendship and loydairy under the charge of the professor alty of the students to the courses alof animal husbandry, or in the field under ready organized. In this fact Is to be the irrigationist, or under the charge of! sought the secret of success and its proman expert in farm tools and soil physics, ise for the future In coin lusion it should be stated that etc. Nothing has been said directly, as yet, tins article intends merely to be narrative, of the department of investigation in its to convey to the people simply the knowlespecial features as an educational factor edge of the growth of the College and of the school system of Utah. While the the lines of work it is pursuing. This nominal function of the department of purpose alone requires more space than agricultural investigation, known as the should be allotted to a single article, and, Experiment Station, is agricultural re therefore, foregoes entirely the discussearch, yet it is associated with these sion of the philosophy of education in its great industrial schools because it aids relation to modem life. |