North Dakota State University - Bison Yearbook (Fargo, ND)

Page 32 text:

AGRICULTURE Dice Stevens McCaul Scranton Thomton R. C. Miller The modernistic note in college education in America was struck when Senator Morrill laid the foundation which made possible college education in agriculture and the mechanic arts. The School of Agriculture in this college has been ringing the changes on that note ever since the college was established in 1890. That note has been muffled at times as financial stress has limited the ambitions of a far' seeing faculty and enthusiastic student body, but during the later years it has rung clear and loud, inviting the youth of North Dakota to listen to this call: Know why, that will teach you how and when. As the L'why is acquired, so grows the stu' dent in the science of agricultureg as the L'how and the 'Lwhenn develop, so grows the student in the art of agriculture. When the bell rings in the Department of Agricultural Economics, a sophomore is found trying to strike a balance on a set of books in farm accountsg he is after the why of financial success or failure. As the gong sounds in the Department of Agricultural Engineering, a junior looks up from his task of designing a dairy barn adapted to the climate of North Dakota. The whir of the bells finds the senior in entomology intent upon the life history of the grasshopper in order that he may discover methods for its control. The melody of this new note in edu' cation is in tune with the tapftap of the hammer and the ripfrip of the saw as Page 22

Page 31 text:

DEAN CF WOMEN Amongst the significant developments in recent years in educational institutions has been a rather abrupt change in the attitude on the part of adults and especially college faculty towards the problems that concern the young people in college. Formerly after the registration period and perhaps a 'Lbig sister tea or an all' college mixer, both sponsored by the organizations, the college freshman was left to go his own way. Not so today, however, for the freshman is, upon his entrance to college, of tremendous importance. Everything possible is done to help the new student find himself in his strange and bewildering environment. Our own experience last fall in an orientation program is evidence of the success of such an undertaking. From this small beginning we may look forward to an orientation program which will supplement merely acquainting him with the technique of college life. Further evidence of the interest on the part of adults toward college students is expressed in the interest manifest everywhere for the housing of students, in the carrying out of a health program for the student body, in the supporting of student activities on the campus, and in inaugurating personnel work. The State College is taking its place among forwardflooking instituf tions in the development of these new adult interests in the college youth remarkably well, and there is no doubt that it will not continue this work. In these and other various ways the school is making notable progress in improving condi' tions for the student body. But the faculty is not doing this alone. There is close co' operation between faculty and students, there is that keen appreciation and intelligent under' standing of each other without which no college can succeed. Page 21

Page 33 text:

AND ITS FUTURE another junior builds his model poultry house. A proud freshman looks up from his close inspection of a ring of fat steers just as this new note in education sings out to him the reason why better beef steaks could be cut from steer No. 1 than from steer No. 3, The senior, carefully weighing his colony of white rats from day to day, listens more sharply than ever before to the vitamin note in animal nutritiong vitaminfdeficient diets in man or beast have become real matter of concern to this modernistic inquirer after truth. The freshman, scratching his head over an English theme, learns to put his thoughts in tune, the art of expression becomes an instrument on which he will then ring the changes through his entire life. The sophomore, peering through his microscope, discovers that the tiniest of notes may set into vibration mighty forces for good or evil, for these minute bacteria with which he plays are potent forces in agriculture, and he learns to direct the good ones toward useful ends and to control the evil ones. Physical, biological, social, and economic science ring out their notes of truth in the service of that most modernistic of men, the farmer of North Dakota. .l Dean The School of Agricultwre and Some Agricultuxralists Page 23