Iowa State University - Bomb Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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and inspiring educatio nal ideal; it is enrolling under its banners an ever increasing army of the best of the young manhood and wo- manhood of the State; it is enlarging its faculty and equipment, multiplying its buildings and making material addition to its sup- port fund. It has a loyal alumni, a host of enthusiastic friends, and possesses in no small degree the confidence of the State. The times are auspicious, the tide is with us. Loyalty, honesty and unselfish devotion, and the proud ship that flaunts the cardinal and gold shall fear no sunken mines or treacherous torpedoes, but shall bear down all opposition and in the years that mark the close of the school life of ' 05 gain greater victories and make more sub- stantial progress than ever before in its history. — 13 —

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durability of construction. All College buildings erected hereafter will be of a like substantial character. The campus of the future will, it is safe to say, be adorned with structures which in design and construction will honor the College and the State and the splendid purposes to which they will be devoted. The present era will be noted for the establishment of this policy. The College income has not kept pace with the College growth. The institution is however to be congratulated that it has over- come, in the period we are contemplating, a most serious obstacle to the increase of its support fund. The College is at once a National and a State institution. The national law requires the State to furnish the necessary buildings. Somewhat naturally, perhaps, the State came to consider this as the extent of its obligation. Through all the early years of the College the Legislature gave buildings, and buildings only. Not until 1900 was this limitation upon state aid overcome. Without this change in policy the College of today would have been impossible. Already the state aid equals that received from national sources, and before the present year expires will probably largely exceed it. This second adoption of the Col- lege by the State is one of the most striking facts connected with the history-making years which lie so close to the college life of the Class of 1905. The to-day of College history is freighted with high hopes for the future. There is not a department in the institution in which the outlook is not full of promise. The students are many and, in general, they are actuated with the spirit that goes with hard and successful endeavor. The work is difficult but the results most gratifying. The College is ever coming nearer to the fulfill- ment of its mission. As the years pass it multiplies and strengthens the cords which unite it to the industrial life of the state. In its agricultural and engineering experimentation it renders direct aid to these industries. In its class rooms, laboratories and shops it is training men and women who are to be potent factors in the indus- trial progress of the future, conservators of a high ideal of citizen- ship, builders of homes, and leaders in the social and moral life of their respective communities. It is not I believe an unwarranted optimism which paints for the Iowa State College a future in which its sons and daughters may have deep rejoicing. Its work is centered around an enduring — 12 —

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PRESIDENT A. B. STORMS. — 14 —