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Show I FROMPINNACLES OF LEARNING THE FLAG! OF EDUCATION FLOATS AND W1VFS I AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE'S TWENTY-ONE TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF ACTUAL WORK How And Why Utah's Great State College Has Fought the Battle of Popular Education A History of Valiant Effort And Achievement , In Soptembcr 1890 tlio Agricultural I College of Utnh was first opened for admission of students. In the twon-ty-ono years of Its existence it has progressed fiom nn Institution of mediocrity me-diocrity to ono of national prominence in Its special field. In this twenty -ono yenis of fight upward It 1ms not been nil 6no easy victory. There lins been vicissitudes and hardships which are understood with .difficulty by the per son who sees today tho great Institution Institu-tion crowning the eastern delta and overlooking magnificent Cache Valley In very deed a monarch of the mountains. moun-tains. Tho story of Us rise from little more than a high school under the ex-I ex-I cellcnt leadership of Its first presl- I dent, Sanborn, to Its full flowering, H under tho eminent scholar who now Is Its president, is one of valiant ef-I ef-I fort and brilliant achievement. This 9 story Is not free from personal anl-U anl-U mosltles which, however, can be well burled because the Institution Is big- &er than any man. It Is an Idea; I which never dies. I Idealism and Practicality. I There must have been something In I tho grand old man Sanborn which I in I parted a distinctive spirit to the new iAfr l'orn Institution which he guided dur-HB, dur-HB, Ing Its first few years of existence. However that be, It has always been tho home of something which may be called fundamental dcmociacy mixed with a high Idealism which tolerated tol-erated nothing but tho. best. Us graduates grad-uates havo always been 'hnracterlzeu by the same spirit of democracy and nil seemed to havo been Imbued with an ambition to succeed much beyond their fellows. They havo peopled the west ns a consequence with engineers who were noted for doing their vvoriv well; with agriculturists who snw In si comprchenatvo way tho great Industry In-dustry In which they paitlclpatcd r.nd who havo lead constantly In the development de-velopment of thnt fundamental industry indus-try and who aro still leading, to tho great benefit of tho Intor-mountaln west: with skilled workmen who did their Job better than the other follow and with clean brpwed women who know tho dignity of their great work. Tho Experiment station closely affiliated af-filiated with the Agricultural College lias a magnificent record of sen Ice to the pcoplo of Utnh. In tho investigation inves-tigation of agricultural problems it has become famous, especially along tho lines of nrld farming and Irrigation Irriga-tion work. Its chemical laboratory respected for tho quality of Us research. re-search. The ' Insect pests, onco so great a monaco to tho agricultural prosperity of Utah, hnvo assumed a. place of Insignificance, comparatively speaking. Among tho enemies of ag-rlculturo ag-rlculturo who havo gone down in the f'Eht aio tho Codling Moth, tho White Fly, Tho Slug, the Grasshopper nnd many others. Just at present the station Is In n death grnpple with ono of the greatest pests that has chall-longed chall-longed conflict, the alfalfa vveovll with hopes of ultimate vlctoiy in many other Hues the season has rendered ren-dered and is rendering signal sen leu. , Not for a Day. There was a time in tho hlstoij ot tho Agilcultural College when agricultural agricul-tural uml Industilal education wu thought to bo a hubby unit not the gient and fiimlnmoiitnl thing that It is. Too gloat honor cannot be paid to the fow on the faculty at thnt time, who haw the gient future for the vnl lant fight against very gient odds In tho Interests of agilcultuial and industrial indus-trial training. It s not too 'much to say that tho splilt of this work has affected the hlbtoiy of the state ma-tcrlally ma-tcrlally and it might not be too much to say that tho spirit of the Institution which Is largely n result of n continued contin-ued effort of this kind has affected similar institutions throughout the west. The Utah Agricultural College In many was is the home In the western west-ern country of much that Is now looked look-ed upon us the new education. It has been flist and foicmoBt In the fight for practical farm training In the col-lege; col-lege; for the dignifying of skilled trades and for the application in general gen-eral of the sciences to the woik of life; nnd It Is not "bottling down." Kd- nc.itlon Is foicxer advancing nnd t-hnnging. The newest evidence ot en-ttrprlse en-ttrprlse and foresight In the management manage-ment of tho college Is In the establishment establish-ment of the now courso In Agricultural Agricultur-al llnglneoilng, Already other western itates are beginning nn agitation for the establishment of tills couise in their colleges. The course Is a direct outgrowth of the need of the Inter- engineering In general. Vitalizing Education. The piesent century Is n cenluty of violent readjustment in almost ev ery walk of life, ntul In nothing t,o mnikcdly as In education. From the school of commerce of tho Agricultural Agricultur-al College comes the announcement thnt the work In Industrial management; manage-ment; Is to be vitalized by associating mountuin country; a mnguitlcent adaptatkn and oigaubatlou of science to the business of life. It promises' to solo the question of ugilcult(un) ic-ilnmatloii, ic-ilnmatloii, due to the tinlulng which It will give in ii ligation and dralnago. In hydinulics, in farm machinery. In ngrlcultutnl nrchltciHuie, ami rnrnl ,!t dliectly with the Industiles and busluebs of the State of Utah. Thn vboys nnd girls coming for business tininlug will be forced to spend u pait of their time In factories, banks, nnd other conimi'iiinl enterpiises of tlu sfule This Is it long step In tho J Continued on Pago a. r A. DECBMHE'R S'CEJVE Of THE CA.MVUJT OE UTAH'S CREA.T STATE COLLEGE. WHICH OTEVS ITS VOOTiS JHEATT TVES-BAJ, TVES-BAJ, TiEGIMtflJVG ITS TWEVTy FI"RST I yEA."R or SERVICE. ARGRICULTURAL COLLEGE'S 'tWENTY-OUE fEA'RS OF ACTUAL WORK Continued rrom Page 1. right direction, a long step In the dl-lection dl-lection of rescuing education from disaster. It is not entirely an unjust criticism to say that tho educational' Institutions of tho last contury have failed in mnny respects, thnt they have becomo the home ot vnpld and mcnnlngless youth who dnbbled in athletics and society nnd who drank and smoked heavily. Ilecont severe condemnation of somo ot tho educational educa-tional Institutions of America are not without foundation. Tho fault Is not with the student hut with the system; sys-tem; n system which has emasculated the courses of study by taking from them their vital practicality. Utah may well bo proud of the paBt record of tho great Inslltutfon at Logan Lo-gan and should watch with Increasing interest Its development. Tho open-ing open-ing next Tuesday will be ono of tho most auspicious In tho history of the college. Its alumni rich with honor have come back to Its sorvlce. Its courses of study hnvo been broadened and thereby Its field ot servlco greatly extended. Its futuro is tho future of the com' monwenlth which It serves, o |