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Show College President Sends Out Message In outling the future and the past history of the Agricultural college at Logan, President Elmer G. Peterson has issued the following message: The Utah Agricultural College has just passed its thirty-third year of service to Utah and the Nation. In all that time it has been a part of the life of our State, working as best it could to solve the problems of the farm, the home, and our business and industrial life. The main service of the college has been in the field of agriculture, upon which our civilization rests, but it has, as have all similar agricultural colleges in America, been able to be of great service in other lines in the training of teachers, both elementary and high school, in the lines of commerce com-merce and business administration, in home economics and nursing, in egnineering and mechanical arts, in preparing scientific workers for government and state service, and, as in all institutions of higher learning, it has developed strong courses in the subjects which characterize all education. edu-cation. These are .English and litra-ture, litra-ture, mathematics, languages, the natural and physical sciences, arts, music, public speaking, history sociology, soci-ology, economics, and related lines, nil designed to give its students a "liberal and practical education," to quote from the national law creating the College. The College is not only an institution institu-tion where students are taught; it is an institution of direct social and industrial in-dustrial service. Through the Extension Exten-sion Division and Experiment Station it represents both Nation and State 'n solving the problems of the farm and the home. The College devotes only one-half of its energy in teaching teach-ing students; the other half is devoted to Extension and Experiment Station work. In this it differs from many colleges and universities which devote nil their energy to the teaching of students. Through all its work the College tries to embody what our people hold to be above all education standards of cleanliness and honor. There can be no worth-while education unless it s based upon observance of moral law. Much that is now wrong with education is due to the fact that many nlucators believe that men and women need not develop morally and spiritually spirit-ually as they develop mentally. Nothing could be more disastrous to us as a natioi than to divorce the :noral and spiritual from our schools. I venture to say that any educational institution so conceived is doig more harm than good to those who come to it. High scholarship is necessarily a part of any real college but high manhood man-hood and womanhoood come first. During the past two years the College has been subjected to very sever economics due to the prevailing dpression, yet it has been able to survive sur-vive this period without serious loss. The years ahead are years of great promise for our state and the West. Conditions already are sufficiently improved im-proved to indicate that although it nay be somewhat slowly, prosperous times are ahead of us. In this all will shave, th College included. It is a pleasure to be able to report that the College is in excellent condition, with a constantly increasing student enrollment en-rollment and an increasing influence for good in all other ways. In scholarship schol-arship the College now ranks evenly with the better institutions of America. |