Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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-. . , . , r. ■.-•,, ..:■■■ ' .,; „ J State Board of Higher Education Caliistcr Oliver Scarr Coll Pmsc Watzek THE State board of higher education is a new department of government in Oregon. Up to 1909 all the institutions of higher learning in the state were exclu- sively governed by their respective boards of regents. In that year the state board of higher curricula was created to supplement the functions of the two boards of regents of the state universitv and the state college by determining and defining the courses of study and the departments of instruction to be developed by the two institutions. On July I, 1919, all the former boards were superseded and their functions taken over by the new state board of higher edu- cation, created by a law of the 192.9 state legislature. The law provides for nine members, serving for nine-year terms, ap- pointed by the governor subject to the ap- proval of the senate. An executive secre- tarv serves as educational expert to the board. { ' }

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DMIMISTRATIOM OSA E. Lautner Editor

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r T T T T e V . T T 1- , 1 p .. K •% %k HH H lIh President ' s Message President W. J. Kerr ' ' I HE land-grant colleges, of which Oregon State - • is one, had their beginnings before the scien- tific age had fairly dawned. They pioneered the new epoch in education. By observation and experi- ment they blazed the wav for others to follow. In their laboratories, science, stimulated by the needs of industry, took on a new and profound signifi- cance. Step by step they fought their way upward through inertia and prejudice to the strategic posi- tion they occupy today. Oregon State has been a pioneer in this held of scientific education; it was first in the Pacific northwest to introduce the studv of agriculture, engineering, home economics, com- merce and allied subjects. That it arrived in due time, like others of the land-grant colleges, at a confident epoch of symmetrical growth and expan- sion, is cause for profound gratitude to the pioneers who shaped its early career. They did a great work in a spirit of noble endeavor. The super-structure of the past twenty years has been erected on the broad foundation that they laid. Now it is for a new generation, taking advantage of the unparalleled opportunities of the scientific age, to press forward to new conquests in the service of the common- wealth and humanity. W. J. Kerr. { O