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Show I! AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE IS UPBUILDING FACTOR President Peterson Explains Attitude and Ideal of Great Utah Institution; Large Increase in Enrollment During Five Years I Bv Dlt. ELMER G. PETERSON l-n -ill. in uf the U. A. O. The people of Utah have maintain B ed from the earliest pioneer flays nn Interest in education which dlatlntr-UlahM dlatlntr-UlahM thom anions the people of the HPftW world. This Interest hail not been In the fads and fancies of education, but hiLS demanded moral and spiritual qualities first and manual and mental H usefulness second. No snner sentl ment exists on earth than this. The I'tah Agricultural college has grown H ulonpr these lines for thirty years, con- H I entratlng its efforts on the probleni H of the farm, the home. I he shop, th H business office and the sciences and vris whl-h underlie industry and ogrl-H ogrl-H Culture and home miking. The last few years have witnessed the fruition of many years of effort. Attendance at the college has in-Creased in-Creased by leaps and bounds The in- H stitutlon will re.-ich over 74 is students in organized instruction dining 1921- 22. An analysis of the registration 1 llgures that, up to December of ih." year 1495 students had registered. counting the summer school regtstra- lion, ;is opposed to IT 2 7 for last year. The resident enrollment for this fl tn Pecember excluding the suin- H iner school, is 1021, as oppoBed to 10 for last year Two hundred students H arc expected to register between now and the close of the present school J year In addition to this enrollment, J the college teaches 7r.11 students by correspondence and extension classes 1 and reaches the remarkable total of Q 5191 women in special homo economic classes This brings the total nutn-H nutn-H ber of students in organized clfl reached by the college thl-- yeai I 1 418 Resides these the college annually an-nually reaches over 50,000 cltlasns of t'tah in lectures, demonstrations and by personal visits A survey of registration figures covering cov-ering the past t-n cars shows that the number of students enrolled at tin-college tin-college during this period has Increased In-creased over 66 per cent. This increase in-crease is in regular resldenl stu 1 enrolled and does not include additional addi-tional hundreds registered In short courses. FEDERAL M M Yi: SCHOOL. The Agricultural college is a federal fed-eral and state Institution created to be of direct social and Industrial service. ser-vice. It differs materially from the usual college or university in this n -pact. Thes.- older colleges and universities uni-versities are primarily teaching Institutions. In-stitutions. Practically all of their income in-come and energy Is devoted to teaching teach-ing students In residence at the college col-lege or university. Their teachers are employed on a school yt ar basis of nine to ten months. If they work in the summer they are paid extra. Their work is through, largely, when the classroom teaching Is done. Tlu Utah Agricultural college is a year round institution. Its faculty Is employed em-ployed almost entirely on twelve months' basis, in our case, slightly less than one-half of our Income and energy goes Into teaching students, one-fourth goes into research and Mlghtly more than one-fourth Into tension work. And practically every teacher is burdened With v.me ex-'enston ex-'enston work. Our work is not completed com-pleted until the principles we teach re embodied in the agricultural Industrial; In-dustrial; teaching, business and home activity of the state. s mi examph of this responsibility, I mention the work of our department of horticulture horticul-ture and landscape gardening. This department not onl teaches students in residences hero, but a report Jut filed shows the following: Under the direction "t in.- depart- . ment plans and specifications for public pub-lic grounds, church and school grounds havo been undertaken as follows: fol-lows: School grounds. Including unlver-ltles, unlver-ltles, academies, high schools and public schools, nineteen. Id. mo grounds, Including hospitals, factories, farm homen and city residences. resi-dences. 100. Of this las) number fifty plans have In . n submitted and fifty homes have been visited and Instructions and suggestions given regarding planting and arrangement. It Is the purpose of the college in its teaching work to train leaders in agriculture, engineering, business. I trades and Industries, teaching, the 1 sciences and in home economics. I The expanses at the college are ba-' ba-' Ing held at as low a point as possible. 1 We reach now in courses related to : agriculture ;i larger percentage of au: I people than any similar college in America. And our co.ts of Instruction Instruc-tion are lower than those of any Other agricultural college In western America. As regards standards of scholarship, the Utah Agricultural ollego iv" iu M high 0 plane of scholarship ls any agricultural coi- 1 lego in America Our graduates are aci epted at practically all the bett r and larger colleges and credit given j for all their work done at Logan. This 1 applies to the greater colleges, such 1 as Harvard Cornell, Chicwgo. Illinois I and Iowa. The policy of the colle-; Is one of universal education. We dc not adhere to the belief in selected land favored groups only, being cllg-; cllg-; lble for higher education. I Kducruion should be free or practi cally tree in our nigner eaucation;.i I institutions as In ur high schools, otherwise wo will put a college education edu-cation beyond the reach of all excent ' the well to do We must reach thi poor as well as those with adequuto means. No policy is more founds lional in American life and government govern-ment than that of making accessible the- blessings of education to all the I eople. I am personally In favor ol lowering the costs of entrance at thl 1 college. Small as it is. It Is denying many worthy young men and womei. an education and our state and nn tion Is bein denied their leadership. The college is establishing strong r 1 and stronger bonds with the high schools of Utah. The development of these magnificent centers of learning throughout our state is a remarkable development of recent years. The Utah Agricultural college has a standard of scholarship which puts the institution with the better col-leges col-leges of America. I base this observation obser-vation upon: First, the entrance requirements re-quirements of the college, which ire standard, second the requirements for sustained work after entrance in ' order to maintain good standing th e includes minimum of credits which a lu lent must ob'aln and a limitation Of the amount of work which he ma carry, thus tending to Insure intensive inten-sive work and h!h valuation of the credit obtained, and third, the practically prac-tically universal high rating given graduates of the college In the larger larg-er and better colleges. CRKDITS FREELY ACCEPTED. I have investigated the latter mat-! mat-! ter at the University of Chicago, tho University of Illinois, Cornel university. univer-sity. Harvard university and the gre it ! State Agricultural college at Ames j Iowa: these Institutions may be taken 1 as representative of the greatest In ! American education, Harvard proa- ably being the world's leading educa- tional Institution and the universal measure of excellence. In all -these In- stltutlona the credits of the Utah Agricultural Ag-ricultural college graduates Utt LC-cepterl LC-cepterl fully and In fach f thSSS colleges col-leges the reputation of i'tah Student! Is very high. The certification of our coih-ge faculty as to i student's stand-ins stand-ins i accepted fully In. these Institutions. Insti-tutions. At tho University f Illinois, for Instance, one of our student now doing special graduate work there re-portf. re-portf. "Th I'tah Agricultural col- legre i accepted 100 r" i cent at Illinois. Illi-nois. ' At th I'nlverslty of Chlcafl.0 law school, one of the greater law schools of America, for example, on' of our fitudents last year was admitted admit-ted to candidacy to the higher dr-grce- In law, reserved for very highest high-est ranking students only, on tho basil bas-il of our faculty rating of hoth hi college md his high school credits, the latter being deficient a to pr -scrihed credits but offset by his experience ex-perience and scholastic record at the colleKe. The dean of this law school Stated that T'tah students, both our own and thoan from the university and church bchools In Utah, rank higher at Chicago than students from any oilier stale. I con ha.rdly lmuglnf; a finer compliment to the citizens of Utah who havo sacrifli ed so much for education or to tho leaders of thesf Institutions who in tho past have done so well. Cornell university for man years has admitted 1". a. C. students, granting them full cred.t for every course taken In Utah. One .student In particular I remember, a graduate of thl-i cuili gi- . marine Cornell, Cor-nell, received such rating. This is also al-so true at Chicago and 'Columbia Utah A. '. students are doing i nn- mendabls work at Eastern college : There Is a generous sprinkling at H iT-v.ml, iT-v.ml, Columbia, Cornell. GeorgO W ishlnpton, Pennsylvania, Chicago, Iowa State. Illinois and elsewhere. The students at these colleges universally univer-sally a,ro bringing honor to their state and college. In Utah we have much to learn vh from thi great Eastern centers In many ways and still we have gone very far In education In no way is Utah more distinguished than in its love of real education and in iL adherence ad-herence to the highest moral and Intellectual In-tellectual standards. I'lah, however, does not believe In the passing whims in education. Our standards In Utah are eminently rtound. ENDOWMENTS IRE LAI KING. Probably in nothing are wo more backward in Utah than In the ntattci of endowments to our college! from those with surplus wealth. In every college Investigated private funds gifts from tho citizens or the state were accumulating for buildings, fni research and teaching professorships, for needy and worthy students, fot athletic fields, and memorials and endowments en-dowments for salaries to faculties. The time. 1 think, is rapidly coming when Ihls wave of hard times has passed, when our own college vvlll We the recipient of generous endowments endow-ments frum our citizens. Our collego particularly, should appeal to the industrial in-dustrial west Iri thi; regard. Uuh an unsurpassed location in the very hcarl of Intermountain Western America, In an Ideal college town which is the center of the great developing irrigated irri-gated west, away from the harassing, disturbing social ills which beset the larger cities with mixed populations, about equidistant from similar colleges col-leges which form a circle about us with a radius of some Tea miles, wo indisputably occupy the center geographically, geo-graphically, and must become, as years go' on, a stronger and stronger leader in the sciences and arts which underlie agriculture, engineering, home economies, trades and Indu-.-J tries, commerce and business, tea ing and tho general si len - and art. Not tho least of the factors to con- j tribute to this end is that of location and our. as yet, unspoiled and. un-J crowded building development. W need, now dormitories and additional ad-ditional endowments along the lin s suggested. To be sure, during the present depression all must pause ;vi await the return of what 1 confidently confident-ly believe will hi an era of vv ulespre ol prosperity. This prosperity will no I believe, be based upon inflated values. val-ues. It may bo based upon comparatively compara-tively low prices, low, that is. when compared wiih the Intemperately high prices of 1016, 1917 and L?18. A lowei geher il level over long period Ml years seems probable, with probably sharp rises and drops hui, in genen I writ a comparatively lower level. Intemperate In-temperate prices do not produce prosperity. pros-perity. They produce inevitable depressions de-pressions and even panics. What we I n ed is a lower level and Just relations in prl- . This produces c mlidi n o nd efficiency which, in turn, produce prosperity This prosperity may be I gin In a year or less or it may be delayed de-layed two years or more. Vet it is omlng BUrel and the wise will anli- ; clpate it. In this connection Roger Baboon, the ithorhyi on economics. vhoiii it was my privilege to meet while in Washington, speaks unhesitatingly unhesi-tatingly of the assured future of such basic industries as beef production. Hi- idvice la to stick. While through- 'iii the country farming and stock j raising Is at Its lowest ebb. everywhere every-where there is expectation of a sure i-viv.il. The years ahead are undoubtedly un-doubtedly to be years of good busl-n busl-n m; the tide Is going to run low for i' speculator, the gambler, the mere . i cplolter, and corresnondlnalv hiirh for the producer, the builder, the pnservatlve merchant and banker and the trained man In the profes-I profes-I sions, in agriculture. In the trades. In , engineering, and in teaching and the si li nces. The conv iction of the lead-I lead-I era is most pronounced that now is I the time for students to prepare for , the responsibilities In the basic lndus-I lndus-I tries and professions. Of these, agriculture, agri-culture, business, engineering, t. idling, idl-ing, the sciences and the professions ! are foremost. WELCOMES SUGGESTIONS. The college welcomes suggestions from every source looking tow j i r 1 1 t h - strengthening of its work In the Interest In-terest of tho state The discontent, which Is sweeping the world, m d find no dangerous expression here If we can keep our farms in the hands of our stronger citizenship and so regulate reg-ulate this basic industrv that the r- mers prosper. Build better homes upon these farms from year to year and the most Important measure Will have been i.u."n to keep our state sound and strong. More aid must he brought to the f irrne, The marketing market-ing problem must bo soU, ,i Koads and schools must be maintained and other important steps must be taken to Increase the prosperity of those who produce. Here Is the beginning and the end of our social md national problems. In no other way can we fortify our people against the calamities calam-ities which today so opprc- s. t,, world no . STEAMERS IN RACE . TACOMA. Wash A marine race from San Francisco to Tacoma ended bore In a dead heat. The schooner Phyllss, a lumber carrier, and the Admiral Ad-miral Scbreo of the Admiral Line, left Golden Gate at the same time, and as they squared away for their trip' north both crews determined to make i a roee of it They were neck and neok up tho coast but at Cape Flattery the Admiral Sobreo gained a short lead. Captain K. Arenaten Of the Phyliss, however, was equal to the emergency und he cut In between Dunrun Rqck and tho cape, thus .saving two miles. 1 1 WttS an even racy down Puget sound I to Tacoma. Captain Fred Nystrom I was In charge of the Admiral Bebree, ou Planet Venus moves around the sun at nn .Average i.e. d of 2 2 miles a second. |