Iowa State University - Bomb Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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E N G N E E R N G ♦ ♦ 1 T. R. Ago Dcdit of Engineering wi) inst riR ' tcirs. i meaf!:er wm-ksliiip, and less tliaii a score of students enrolled in one small Department of Mechanical Arts were everythinfr necessary to found an en- Siiu erin ' - school tliat later p;rew into the larftest west of the Mississippi. Now the Eng ' ineeriuji ' Division boasts of over 100 instructors and trained in- vestigators, 11 engineering buildings of the finest type, and over 1.000 stu- dents of collegiate grade ! It is interesting to note in the his- tory of this division that fiuaueial flurries have periodically caused a decrease in enrollment, and that panics and low peaks have been followed by rises. Strangely enough, however, it took the fall of 1! 18 to prove the popularity of engineering on the campus. That fall the Student Army Training Corps was established in connection with the engineering school. And it was then that a great influx of freshman engineering students — over a thousand strong — came to Iowa State College. All of them were too young to enlist direct, but all were con- fident that training in the Student Army Training Corps would lead directly and speedily to their participation in the World War. The 15 years since that fall have shown a remarkable increase in the num- ber of engineering graduates. Of the total number of graduates from this divi- sion, 92 percent have been graduated in the last 25 j ' ears. For those wlio cannot come to the College for acquiring industrial trade in- formation the Engineering Extension Department was oi ' ganized. Now short courses for plumbers, metei-men, firemen, janitors, telephone operators, bakers, painters, d.vers and cleaners are held throughout the year. ♦ ■ I S I k S A More lltdn UH men rotnjirise Ihe engineerinij faenllij ♦ I 54

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A G R CULTURE ♦ E. M. Hughes Act ill I) Dean ♦ ♦T, iiK president (iT tlie (I lectured nil liiiidseapp ai ' deniii ' ; ' . and Dr. Nor- t(in S. Tdwnsend. jjrofessor of a)rric ' ul- ture and lioftieiiltiire. etunprised the entire aiirienltnral faeulty when the ( ' iil!e ; ' e was tdriually opened in 1869. ow over ()() members of tlie aiiri- enltviral instructional staff are neces- sary to take care of the lartrest agrri- eultural enrollment of any institution in the T ' nited States. There were many handicaps to im- ])e(le the early ai;rieultural work — nieap-er equipment, limited fields of pursuit, and a period of administrat- ive instability in which a definite administrative jtolicy was decidedly lacking. But in 1891, with the coming of AVm. M. Beardshear as president of the College and James Wilson as professor of agriculture (AVilson was later to become Sec- retary of Agriculture in ] IeKinley s cabinet), a new era dawned for agriculture and for the entire institution. Enrollment in the College pa.ssed the 1.000 mark; more liberal state appro- priations for buildings and support were obtained; various imixirtant buildings were erected and equipment purchased. Anil the nanu of tlie institution, in 1898, was officially changed to the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Today Iowa State ' s fame as an agricultural institution has grown to be world-wide. This is demonstrated by the fact that of the 59 students coming from 81 different count I ' ies to Iowa State College last year, 23 enrolled in agriculture. Thi- Ay focullij turns nut in full force ♦ M4

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HOME ECONOMICS Ge.nevikve Fisher Dean of Home Economics ♦ u 4 4 jTiTTiNtiLY. ;Mrs. ]Mary i;. V(li-li. wilV of Iowa A{, ' riuultural ( ' (illciic ' s lirst president, was the iiiotlicr of lioinc economics instruc- tion on the campus. When tlic coUefre opened in 18ti8 she offered to women students :} hours if work a week in ])ractical honieniakin i. and so tlie col- Icii-e became tlie first institution of its rank in the country to give instruc- tion in home economics. A kitelien in tlie basement of Old JIain — said to be tlie first of its kind in any eollejre — was Jlrs. Welch ' s first laboratory. The weekly work of a home economics student (and in 1868 that meant all women students) was divided into three sections — practice in the kitchen, the dining: room and the laundry. From this homely beginning has developed Iowa State ' s highly modern Home Economics Division, with its laboratories, classrooms and facilities that Mi-s. Welch can hardly have imagined. Gradually it has been built up. The eourse in institution cookery, for instance, may be traced back to 1877, when cooking classes prepared and served meals for one table in the main college din- ing room. A home manaji-ement house (now there are four, and don ' t call them practice cottages!), added in 1916. was one of the first of its kintl in the United States. And the Division has awarded 2, SOS bachelor ' s degrees, 266 master ' s, and three doctor ' s. Early in 19.33 hundreds of holders of these degrees were called upon by Dean (ienevieve Fisher to aid in the important emergency relief work of planning dietaries for families receiving relief. AutlimitiCK ill llii firhl iif Immi cniiiiiinifx ' } ♦ I 6