Texas A and M University - Aggieland Yearbook (College Station, TX)

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The School of Agriculture The organization of the School of Agriculture is shown in the following outline: Dean of the School Vice-Dean Productive Vice-Dean Economic DEPARTMENTS Agricultural Engineering Animal Husbandry Entomology Horticulture Poultry Husbandry Accounting and Statistics Farm and Ranch Management Agricultural Economics Agronomy Dairy Husbandry Genetics Landscape Art Rural Sociology Agricultural Economics Marketing and Finance E. J. Kyle, B.S., B.S.A., M.S.A. Dean irVH E four-year course in General Agriculture has for its main object the preparation of young dL men for the business of practical farming and ranching; for the pursuit of scientific investi¬ gations along some line of agriculture; for agricultural specialists for the State and government; for becoming county demonstration agents or extension workers, and for teaching in agricultural colleges and high schools. The men who finish the course in Agricultural Administration are well equipped to serve as research students in economics and commercial subjects; to enter government or state work in the field of marketing and statistics; to serve as economic and agricultural advisers in co¬ operative marketing organizations and chambers of commerce, corporations relating to agricul¬ ture and general businesses related to agriculture such as banking or merchandising; to administer landed estates (large or small) and to serve as county agents. Graduates of the Agricultural Engineering course are prepared for the following lines: With the colleges and government in teaching, extension and experiment station work; with manufacturers of farm machinery, gas engines, tractors, other equipment and farm buildings; in advertising, sales and design work, drainage and irrigation work, and with farm and trade journals. The purpose of the course in Landscape Art is to train the students in the development of outdoor areas, such as formal and informal flower gardens, large and small estates, parks and playgrounds, cemeteries and the surroundings of buildings, private, semi-public and public. The two-year course in Agriculture is intended for young men who wish to spend one or two years in preparing to go back to the farm to employ more scientific methods of farming which have been worked out in recent years. To this end the course is made highly practical. The School of Agriculture has undergone a remarkable growth during the past twelve years. It has increased from a few departments to fourteen departments. In 1914 it ranked seventeenth in enrollment of agricultural students. It ranks second today. During this period the enroll¬ ment has more than doubled itself, while all other institutions outranking it at the beginning of the period now have fewer students enrolled in their four-year agricultural courses than they had in 1914-1915. Page 21

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The Graduate School COURSES Agricultural Administration Agricultural Education Agricultural Engineering Agriculture Architecture Chemical Engineering Civil Engineering Electrical Engineering Industrial Education Mechanical Engineering Rural Education Science Veterinary Medicine Charles Puryear, M.A., C.E., LL.D. Dean f ' fP ' HE Graduate School was established in 1924. Prior to that time graduate work was ad- ministered by the General Faculty, acting through a committee on graduate st udies. The faculty of the Graduate School consists of various members of the teaching staff and of the staff of the Agricultural Experiment Station determined by the General Faculty, and has juris¬ diction over all matters relating to graduate work. The principal aim of graduate study is the development of the power of independent work and the promotion of the spirit of research. Each candidate for a degree is expected to have a wide knowledge of his subject and of related fields of work; the graduate student is not expected to get from lecture and laboratory courses all the knowledge and training necessary to meet the requirements for his degree. The completion of an approved course of study in the graduate school leads to the degree of Master of Science. Professional degrees in engineering—Ghemical Engineer, Civil Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Mechanical Engineer—are offered on the basis of acceptable professional experience, a thesis, and an examination. The Master’s degree denotes that attainment which a student of good native ability, who has received an appropriate bachelor’s degree, may reasonably expect to attain in one year of entire and successful devotion to advanced studies, with adequate facilities and under competent direction. The courses of study leading to this degree do not make research the chief considera¬ tion, but are intended to serve as an introduction to the methods and discipline of research. The College offers annually a limited number of graduate scholarships and of graduate fellowships. An applicant for a scholarship or a fellowship must meet the requirements for ad¬ mission to the Graduate School and must express his intention of completing in this College the requirements for the master’s degree. He must also agree, in consideration of the award, to render a reasonable amount of service, to be determined by the Dean of the Graduate School and the head of the department in which he takes his major work. Nominations to scholarships or fellowships are made on the basis of worthiness of character, scholastic attainments, and promise of success in the field of study to which the applicant pro¬ poses to devote himself. They are made by the Dean of the Graduate School, subject to the approval of the President. The Texas Power and Light Company offers a graduate fellowship in engineering having a value of six hundred dollars and open to graduates from the Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering courses. Page 20 jgr

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Tlie School of Arts and Sciences DEPARTMENTS Biology Economics Geology Mathematics Modern Languages Chemistry English History Military Science Physical Education Physics -vi varna Charles E. Friley, B.S., M.A. Dean HE function of the School of Arts and Sciences is two-fold: First, to serve the technical divisions of the College by providing thorough instruction in the languages, literature, the social sciences and the natural sciences, which constitute the foundation upon which the technical curricula, such as engineering and agriculture are built; and second, in accordance with the provisions of the Morrill Act, which created the College, to offer comprehensive programs of study in the natural sciences and the liberal arts, for those students who find that their talents do not lie along technical lines, but who are interested in the more general fields of education and who wish the benefits of the military training and discipline which constitute such an im¬ portant and valuable phase of the work of the College. In the School of Arts and Sciences are included the departments of Biology, Chemistry, Economics, English, Geology, History, Mathematics, Military Science, Modern Languages, Physical Education and Physics. At some point in his college career practically every student comes in contact with the work of certain of these departments, notably, Chemistry, English, Mathematics, Military Science and Physical Education. It is generally recognized that strong departments in the natural sciences and in the general studies are essential to the success of an institution of higher learning, and this is particularly true of technological institutions, the work of which is based upon the sciences, mathematics, economics, and kindred subjects. No student should be graduated from college, no matter what its type, who has not received adequate instruction in those studies devoted to general culture, which make him familiar with the best thought of the best minds that have gone before him. To provide an education whereby young men may satisfy their material wants more completely and in shorter hours, without at the same time opening up to them channels of culture and self-development in the wide range of human thought and activities is like the parable of the man who asks for bread and is offered a stone. We are placing great emphasis on professional and technical education as a means of training young men to utilize their working hours to the best advantage, but we have by no means fulfilled our obligation to teach them to spend their non-working hours pleasantly and profitably. This is an important phase of the work of the School of Arts and Sciences, whose courses form an essential part of every curriculum offered by the A. and M. College of Texas. “General culture cannot be too widely disseminated among a people. Neither can technological training be properly given without accompanying it with the appropriate cultural training.” There is no better atmosphere for the study of the sciences than in a technical institution, such as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, where the principles of the physical and the biological processes are being applied daily to the solution of the multitude of problems which confront us in all phases of our material life. Page 22