Michigan State University - Red Cedar Log Yearbook (East Lansing, MI)

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State Board of Agriculture L. W. Watkins C. C. Brody M. B. MacPherson Dora Stockman J. Woodman I. R. McColl Deans of the College R. S. Shaw Mary Sweeeney Eudoka Savage G. W. Bisseli F. W. Chamberlain F. S. Kedzie I. S. Taylor Page Twenty-six

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David Friday. A. B. The Michigan Agricultural College has just completed the sixty-fifth year of its history. During this period it has demonstrated the value of a type of education which was non-existent when it was established. It is now entering a changed world. The problem of education here, as at other educational insti- tutions, is to adjust the curriculum, as well as the quality and spirit of instruction, to the needs of a nation which has proven its economic and industrial leadership ; and which is striving to take its moral position among the nations of the world. The College must train a citizenship which shall be cultured in the broadest sense of that term. Her men and women of the future must know history and politics, economics and literature. They must know the ends toward which democracy is striving, as well as the technical means by which the conditions of well-being must be established for all. (Signed) David Friday Page Twenty-five

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,0ricuVturQ Dean G. A. Brown, B. S Animal Husbandry E. C. Foreman, Poultry Husbandry A. K. Chittenden, M. F Forestry C. P. Halligan, B. S Horticulture Y. H. French, M. Ped., M. S. ..Education Robert S. Shaw, B. S. A J. F. Cox, B. S Farm Crops M. M. McCool, Ph. D Soils H. H. Musselmax, B. S Farm Mech. H. M. Eliot. M. A Farm Management 0. E. Reeh. M. S Dairy Husbandry- It is a far cry from the rudiments of farm methods, taught in College Hall sixty-odd years ago, to the comprehensive training in agriculture, science, and the arts offered at M. A. C. today. Had the greenest freshman of ' 62 been informed, upon his arrival, by some sophomore sage of ' 61 that he, the freshman, was about to embark upon the mysteries and delights of organic chemistry, trigonometry, surveying, poetry, music, and military strategy — had he been confronted with all this, in sooth, he would have fancied himself in a university rather than an agricultural school. But farmers of 1922 demand that their leaders shall be versatile men. Therefore the Agricultural course at M. A. C. includes, besides the technical training in efficient farm methods, considerable supporting work which aids in all-around development. In the Agri- cultural division are the technical departments of Soils, Crops, Animal Husbandry, Dairying, Farm Management, Horticulture, and Forestry. The student has the option of studying General Agriculture or of specializing in Forestry or Horticulture. Rapid strides in co-operative marketing made by the Farm Bureau have disclosed the importance of the business side of agriculture. The subject of economics therefore is certain to receive increasing attention in the future in the agricultural curriculum. Agricultural Building Page Twenty-seven