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Show DR. PETERSON ADRESSED THE SCIENCE CLUB The basic value of experimental work In all educational advancement advance-ment was emphasized by President I!. G. Peterson of the Utah Agricultural Agricul-tural collcgo at the Initial meeting for this year of tho Science club ot the Institution, held Friday noon. President Peterson discussed the relationship re-lationship ot research work to extension ex-tension activities. While outlining the immense practical and fundamental fundamen-tal value of extension work, he declared de-clared that research work was the very source of our Information. "Research "Re-search professorships are indlsponsablo indlsponsa-blo to educational growth," said President Pres-ident Peterson. "This research work may well bo of Immediate practical value, but It must also concern Itself It-self with many problems of romote practicabilities. Not only must the problems of tho present bo solved, but the science of tho future must bo built." In discussing tho threo great divisions di-visions of the Utah Agricultural college col-lege the experiment station, the extension ex-tension division, and the division ot Interior Instruction President Peterson Peter-son likened them to a great stream. The experiment station might bo com pared to tho springs from which tho stream comes, said President Peterson. Peter-son. Tho fully grown stream running along always ready to supply power, to Irrigate fields, or carry commerce, is like the division ot Interior instruction, in-struction, whero tho experimental data aro standardized, where varlotis Ideas are corrected and whero Icad ers aro trained. Tho water diverted from the stream for purposes ot power pow-er or taken out in laterals for Irrigation Irri-gation Is similar to the extension workers in the field, translating into concrete results the forco of tho river. "Tho future ot extension work In Utth Is vast," continued President Poterson. "Developing from tho largoly Insplratfonal farmers' Institutes, Insti-tutes, it has grown with an ovor Increasing forco tending toward th-i general betterment of rural clvlllia-tlon. clvlllia-tlon. Tho valuo ot tho work Is amply am-ply proved by tho enthusiastic support sup-port afforded It by the people." In discussing the future of experli mentation, President Poterson savo It as his belief that betoro long the homo economics experiment station would be an established forco In our educational organization. |