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Show OB, PETERSON TAKES OFFICE SEPTEMBER 1 Keynote of New Administration of Utah Agricultural College i Service to People. 4f September 1. 191(i, Dr. E. G. Peter-eon Peter-eon lakes office as president of the l'tah Agricultural College, succeeding Dr. J. A. WidLsoe, who becomes president presi-dent of the University of Utah. September Sep-tember 19, 191G, the doors of the col-ege col-ege open for the twenty-seventh year of its existence. These two facts ! make it imponw.it that the people of this state be furnished with a statement state-ment of the aims and ideals of the great industrial school, the Utah Agricultural Ag-ricultural College. Education today means that men and women be educated to think and trained to do. The people of L'tah demand" de-mand" that their sons and daughters ! receive, during their school career, an i appreciation of the worth while things in life, and they demand, just as persistently, per-sistently, that their sons and daughters daugh-ters receive a training that will enable en-able them to do the necessary work of the world in a creditable manner. When education combines these two ideals, culture and training, it is a tremendous power for social advancement. advance-ment. The Utah Agricultural College has combined these two ideals. The work of the institution is so arranged that all of its students receive the cultural advancement so necessary to our present society. At the same time they are being trained in their chosen field for a life of service. Historically, the college was created in a time of national distress, the pe- t t i - ' ' 1 I !- w i . ' ' i J f ' - I ' 1 1 t- - - ';: T A Dr. E. G. Peterson, new head of Utah Agricultural College. riod just following the Civil war. It was organized, primarily, to train citizens. citi-zens. Therefore both state and federal fed-eral provision for a broad and liberal training in agriculture, agricultural engineering, home economics, commerce com-merce and business administration, and in the' natural and physical sciences. The college can aud does make of its students complete citizens as well as industrial or commercial experts. Problems of the farmer of the business man, of the mechanic, are its problems. The training of women in the greatest of fields, home-building, home-building, is its duty. The welfare of the entire rural community is its interest. in-terest. The field of industrial education Is vast. In the rural community there are farmers to be trained, and farmers' farm-ers' homes to be built. Roads, over which the farm products may be carried, car-ried, must be maintained. Problems of rural sanitation and water supply must be met and solved. The social life of the farm presents special problems prob-lems for the student of sociology, ami the marketing of farm products presents pre-sents intricate problems for the agricultural agri-cultural economist.' Mechanics must be trained to study the needs of the farmer and create for him lavor-sav-ing machines. Many young men and young women have not and do not care to take a high school education. The college realizes the needs of these people and knows that, could they avail themselves them-selves of the equipment and instruction instruc-tion an institution such as the college offers, they would gladly do it. For tliat reason, all who are eighteen or over, are welcome to take any courses at thevv Utah Agricultural College which they can pursue with profit. |
