North Carolina State University - Agromeck Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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Dr. E. C. iiRduKs President of the College Page Seventeen

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OUR COLLEGE WIIAT is nur Collegf? It is an acrunnilalioii nf lamls ami l)uildings and otlicr physiiral e(|iiipment. it is an assenil)lage of executives and teachers and students and (itiuT luniian agencies. It is a soul, of whicli tlie material and tlie Innnan are the hddy tiirougli wiiicli the si)irit. a significant ]iaii of llie life of the i)ast and the present, seeks its ideal. It searches for new truths and strixes to make new applications of old truths. It seeks to instruct, to gi e definiteness of pur])0sc to studw in order to lead the youth to a more wliolesomr life and lo pla - a large i)art in the advancement of social welfare. i ' .ach individual is self-made, and since society is composed of individuals, it is ever making and remaking itself, and suc- cess or failure is determined hy the uses made of the ojjportun- ities at hand. 1 tow then can students use State College, this large opportunity afforded hy the State for the specific inirpose of aiding young men in the task of making themsehes? ' I ' he - mav think with it and dc clop their several capacities for moral and intellectual growth. They may master the tech- nique of a great jirofession and make new applications of truth to our iHdiioniic ami social life that sh.all win another great vic- torv fill ' humanit -. The - may imhilie its true spirit and increase their friendship for those who lead and those wdio labor until their capacities for leadership reach that mastery over men that shall again set the world aright. ( )ur College is what we make it. Its soul is nourished hv the moral and intellectual forces of those who draw strength from it. an l its spirit is again reflected in the lives of those it serves, its power is determined by its use. Page Sixteen

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The Greater State College By Uean Clovu o Iv r,iii ,. (. I.IIVII ' Sliiili-iils tlu- tuciity-sixlli (I;i of May. 1SS4. the Watauga Club aduptcd a prospectus of its priuciplcs which contained the following clause : W ' c proceed upon the assumption, which cau- Mot lie denied, that there is iu our community a serious lack of accurate and practical inforniation upon the most common economic questions which arise for our consideration. Al the next regular meeting of the Clul) one of its members read a paper upon Indus- trial Kducation and the Feasibility of Establishing an Industri.-d School in Xorth Carolina. Thus in the minds of this grocp of f.ar-seeing Aoun.i; men was conceived the North Carolina College of ■ Vgriculture and Mechanic Arts which has now grown into the Xorth Carolina State College. Every organization in its Tiormal growth passes ihrough three distinct p eriods; namely, the Period of Enthusiasm, in whicli all acclaim the jiraises of the new organization; this is folllowed by what, for l.icl of a better name, we call the Period of Depression, during which period the enthusiasm of the new or.ganization is soniewdiat abated and, having come lo be looked upon as a matter of course, the organization does not attract so much attention and has man obstacles to overcome and some opposition to encounter: in surmounting these obstacles and subduing its opponents the organization emerges again into its greatest period, that is, the Period of Achievement. The history of State College has followed very closely thai of ,l11 otlier organizations. I ' Voni the enthusiasm at its opening it has had its days of struggle against lack of funds and equipment, it has met opposition and overcome it. and we sec it today emerging into its greatest period of Achievement and Service. In his N ' ew Year greeting to the students President I ' .rooks saifl ; The School of Agriculture will present a new purpose, and its aim will seek a larger life for the people of the State: the School of Engineering will measure more accurately the natural resources of the State and give a new meaning to undeveloped industries : the School of General Science will afford a better understanding of the physical world and our dependence upon it: and the School of Social Science will explore the laws governing human rel;it ' onsliips and our adjustments to them. . ' lready we see this program of development hegiiming to mtfold. To our dormitory system is lieing added one of the most attractive and convenient units in the South : thcre has been added to our teaching staff a Professor of Physical Education .-ind Inter-collegi:ile . thlet:cs who will have as his headquarters the Frank Thoni])s in Ciymnasium, the fotmda- tion for which has already been laid: our facilities for nient.il ilevelopment and research will be greatly increased by the completion of the new Library building; and our aesthetic natures will be enriched by the beautifying of our eampu-. according to di finitely thought out idaus of a skilled I,an lscape Architect. In proposing a name for the Watauga Club, Honorable W. J. Pcele said: In Watauga County there is trickling down a mountain rock a stream of water no larger th.ui a nian s finger — clear as crystal and sparkling like silver — which is the source of a mighty river that turns many thousand spindles and Hoats many ships of commerce. Let us begin with ifty and n rv jmrposc to serve our State and wc may liecomc a mighty force for the 1.: moral and material advancement of its grand old commonwealth. So the North Carolina State College, the child of the W.itauga Club, like the stre.im from which the Club selected its name, has grown through these thirty-four years of its history from a bubbling sjiring in 188 ' ) to a great and niiglity stream ever increasing in its volume and its usefulness and ever contrilniting more and more to the richness and fullness of the life of North Carolina and reaching out through its graduates to the uttermost parts of the world. Page Eighteen