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Show & Tearing Holes in The College Course S I Constructive Destruction Destruc-tion at the Agricultural Agricul-tural College of Utah THE College Course has served for many years as a barrier between the great group of highly trained educators who make up the faculties of our educational institutions and the people who ultimately pay all tne salaries and to whom therefore is due the service of these institutions. "Here is a thing final and sacred," have stated some pedagogues of the past, pointing to the College Course, "this you may not change or criticize." criti-cize." But someone not many decades ago fired a shot into the College Course and after the first cries of "Sacii-lege" "Sacii-lege" died away the people saw through the hole which this heathen gun had made, the smug and self-sufficient self-sufficient educators as they were. They were bearded and old and were dreaming of the past, unconscious, like children, that the Twentieth Century is the greatest century in the history of the world. Since the first inroads were made on the College Course, it has been the centre of constant and severe criticism and it has been forced to an organization and readjustment readjust-ment to meet a real necessity. The fulfilling of this necessity, which has been made a part of College duty, is the history of the Agricultural College of Utah, especially during the last few years, when it has matured to a greater extent than ever before, Its ideals. The Agricultural College is an institution of service and in accomplishing accom-plishing this Ideal It uses various means. First it has affiliated very effectually effectu-ally its course of study with the course of study of the state of Utah, thereby coming In direct contact not with the few more or less trained graduates of the secondary schools, but rather has aimed to meet that "compact majority" which constitutes the real life of the state. In order to reach this great group of people which comprises 90 per cent of our school population it nas necessarily held its academic standards stand-ards a trifle lower in order to have its standard of service 'high. The Extension Division, which has boon magnified during the last year Is a remarkable development of the idea that it is the duty of the institution insti-tution to carry education to the very doors of the people. By means of industrial trains, farmers' schools and special lectures, co-operative work with the public schools and lastly by the organization of an energetic correspondence department. The Extension Ex-tension Division has been rendered among the most efficient organizations organiza-tions of its kind in the United Statos. The spirit of this work is admirable In the extreme. Disregarding no-called no-called scholastic dignity, disregarding BBBft BB Safe Ms MBBHBHHBBHRWWWiBHy r ii Its I fllBUfeffffiffTgilHB Bki. ' uxKBl rv9kflHftlB fi Bl jSnPISiMJ ll AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE AT LOGAN H the criticism of a certain element of alleged culture in the state and looking look-ing only for results and willing co make any sacrifice in order to obtain these results the Extension staff of the college has accomplished a work in the state of Utah in the last two years which means more for the development of the state than any other one factor. There have been enrolled at the college col-lege during the year a total of 1366 students including those registered for the industrial conferences and the summer school. The regular college attendance has been 1054. The year has been notable in that it has seen the addition to the faculty of the largest larg-est number of highly trained special ists that have even been added to an Utah faculty in a year. The college now has represented on its faculty eleven doctorates representing the leading institutions of America and Europe, a record unequalled by any similar institution in the west. The plans for the coming year are epoch making. They propose gradually gradu-ally abolishing the high school course (beginning in 1913) which has been maintained by the college because of the lack of sufficient development of these institutions throughout the state. The board of trustees, at a meeting In Salt Lake City held last month, expressed the opinion that the state had now sufficiently developed that the college could eliminate this feature of its work. At this meeting of the board of trustees it was also decided to require more work for tho college degree. This comes as a natural na-tural result of better laboratories, better bet-ter equipment and a more highly developed de-veloped instructing staff. All the special spe-cial work which has been given for many years at the college has been organized into courses of two years duration. To these will be eligible any person of mature years In the state, or any student who does not wish to take the regular college work but who has a certain amount of public school training But more important tnan all these changes on paper is the growth of the ideal in tho minds of the faculty that the work in which they are on-gaged on-gaged is the greatest work In the world. Today they are united to a man and all imbued with a spirit of service that will accomplish wonders In the state of Utah. |