University of Nevada - Artemisia Yearbook (Reno, NV)

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COlLlLEeiE OF ACEICULTUEE IXTY-FOUR per cent o£ the grad- uates of the College of Agriculture are acftually following agriculture, while pracftically all of the others are follow- ing lines of work for which their agricultural training has helped prepare them. Of the 39 women graduates, 23 are married, 12 are teaching Home Economics, and two are dieti- tians. This year 8 men and 4 women grad- uate, as compared with the 5 men and i woman graduates of last year. Three of this year ' s women graduates plan on teaching Home Economics in high schools, and one intends taking up dietetics. All of the 8 men graduating this year are assured of positions along agricultural lines, three having already been employed by the Exten- sion Division as County Agents. The Agricultural Fair sponsored by the indents of the College of Agriculture in cooperation with the Farm Bureau has grown from a small affair in the Agricul- ture Building, attended by three or four hundred people, to a real fair held at the University Barracks, and attended by three or four thousand. Aggie Day was firft Parted in 1922, and each fair since then has shown marked improvement, and is of real value to the ftate and communitv. Robert Stewart n I First Row: Frandscn, Lehenbauer, Lewis. Second Row: Pope, Scott, Wilson - 4 25 ] ' -

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■.Mm-wmi% MiS a es aar 1 F. H. Sibley ]| (EOILLEGE OF ENCINEEEING I pi NCJINEERING COLLEGES are in a rtate ot transition wherein courses II J designed primarily to train artisans are giving place to courses that have in view a broad development in social and political as well as in natural science. With almoft every issue of the college catalogue some o£ the nar- row intensive technical work is replaced by hrcxider general courses. Induftriahsm is the word that characfterizes the acftivities of the human race at the present Jay more closely than any other. Training in the learned professions, such as Medicine or Theology does not necessarily prepare the ftudent for leadership in induftry. The educated leader whose training is based primarily on pure and applied mathematics is better adapted to 20th century thought when one observes how the engineer is taking over positions of great responsibility, formerly taken by men in other professions. At Nevada as well as elsewhere the engineering curricula are being continually broadened. A iludent may at the beginning of his sophomore year plan his own schedule so that on approval of the faculty he may get all of the general specific train- ing and still specialize in Chemistry, Physics, I ure Mathematics, Business Admin- iftration, and other subjects. First Row: Bixby. Boardman, Hartman. Second Row: Jones, S. G. Palmer, Searcy ■■ { 24 } »-

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[AGIIAY SCHOOL OF MINES I III IHE Mackay School o£ Mines during I the period elapsed since the laSt J|| Artemisia was published, has shown gratifying growth and development in all departments. The total yearly enrollment for the year 1927-1928 was 37, the same total for 1 928-1 929 is 48, an increase of almoft 30%- This growth is particularly gratifying be- cause out of a survey of 25 representative mining schools and colleges in the United States, only 14 show an increase in enroll- ment over the la college year and few of these show as large a percentage increase as does the Mackay School of Mines. That this growth will continue is Wrongly indicated by the number of inquiries received from different sedfions of the United States regarding the School from prospedlive indents. In 1925 we had requeils from seven prospedlive indents; in 1926 the same number; in 1927 four requefts; in 1928, 17, and for the firft three months of 1929, 23, and if one can judge from the tone of the inquiries the percentage of ftudents who will enter out of the 1929 lift will be larger than formerly. The moft important feature in the survey of the paft year is that dealing with the demand for graduates. All graduates have made excellent connexions at salaries ranging from $150.00 to $200.00 per month. John A. Fulton First Row: Carpenter, Couch. Second Row: W. S. Palmer, Smythe - ' 4{ 26 }2 »-