North Dakota State College of Science - Agawasie Yearbook (Wahpeton, ND)

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IV. Engineering Department Professor Riley Assistant Professor Mapes Instructor Ness HE engineering curriculum has been planned to serve two purposes. The first of these—and for the present perhaps the more important of the two—is to provide a course which will lit a man. upon its completion, to go out and deal with the engineering problems ordinarily met with in rural communities: the handling of the machinery of the farm, garage, small factory, the electrical generating or distribution systems; the second, to provide fundamental training necessary to lit a young man to enter some special branch of engineering, if he desires to continue his training for the professional engineering degree. Espccialy during the winter months, the Engineering Building fairly bristles with activity. One going past gains inspiration from the young men coming and going, clothed with greasy overalls. The noises that come forth are full of mystery to the student who does not take part in their making. At times large quantities of white smoke pour forth from the doors and windows and we are told that one of the boys had succeeded in starting a motor that he has himself taken apart and put back together. It is not hard to distinguish the student who has accomplished this great work, for he fairly radiates when he comes over to Burch Hall for dinner. The interior of the Engineering Building is full of wonderful things to the students of the departments. The main entrance of the Engineering Building is in the machineshop, where a number of lathes and other machines for the cutting of iron are located. Back of the machine shop is the forge shop, noted as a smoky, dirty place where the young engineer burns his lingers and raises blisters on his hands trying to learn to make a weld by sticking two pieces of red hot iron together. Back of the machine and forge shop is a large space used for the tractor and auto shop. Here are located several makes of automobiles, tractors, and trucks of various kinds and ages. Some of these machines are in a running condition and are occasionally seen, after they have been overhauled, making trial trips around the oval. Many of the other machines consist of separate gasoline engines, rear axles and other parts of automobiles, tractors, and trucks. The wood shop is located next to the tractor and auto shop, and is probably the cleanest place in the building- Here the future engineer is taught the handling of wood in all of its various branches. Adjacent to the wood shop, the old diawing room has been remodeled to make a modern automativc electric shop. This is the newest addition to the Engineering department. It consists of several complete starting-lighting systems, various kinds of magnetos, coils, switches etc. It is well tquiped and really something of credit to the college. HAUL TWENTY-ONE

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Ill. Home Economics Department Professor Forkner Assistant Professor Coffing WO and ten years ago, our State Board of Regents brought forth in our | | School a new department, conceived by the idea, and dedicated to the prop- osition that all girls should be good homemakers. Then we were engaged in great discussion whether that department or any department so conceived and so dedicated could long endure. We are met after twelve years of successful experience. We have come to dedicate a portion of this book in appreciation of home-making education. It is altogether lining and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense we cannot estimate its value to the individual, we cannot measure its worth to the community, we cannot forctclll the extent of its influence on the homes of tomorrow. The former students, homemakers or otherwise, have proved its worth far above our poor power to add or detract. The girls may little note nor long remember what we tench here but they can never forget the school influence. It is for us rather to be dedicated to the unfinished work which they who realized the importance of good homes to the nation, have thus far so nobly advanced. It is for us to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from this knowledge we take increased devotion to that phase of education which has long been overlooked or underestimated, that we here highly resolve that girls so educated shall not have been Educated in vain and that this type of training shall have a place of greater importance in the field of learning and that education of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. H'ilb apologia to Abraham Lincoln. PACE TWENTY

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AGAWASIB . Business and Commerce Department Professor Rank Miss Walton Miss Inker INCK the organization of the State School of Science a department for the teaching of commercial subjects has been maintained. Two main courses are covered. Commerce and Secretarial work, each covering the regular secondary school work in three years, and continuing into the Junior College for two years. One hundred and twenty hours are required for graduation from the secondary curricula and 44 hours from the Junior College curricula. Short courses are open to students without the standard entrance requirements—one in shorthand and one in business, and a Winter Term. Another course is also open for high school graduates, covering one year. A student of ordinary intelligence, graduating from our courses in Commerce, or Secretarial work, in the Junior College, should be able to go into the business world and, with a year or more of adjustment to conditions there, be able to handle the most difTicult managerial, secretarial, or administrative job; and rank shoulder to shoulder with men and women already there from the best schools of the land. The work given is scientific, broad, and thoro and is in the hands of instructors who rank with the most able in the profession. An outline of the two courses offered in the Department, together with the descriptions of the various courses, may be found in the annual catalog.