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

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e ■ AGRICULTURE Graduates in agriculture from Michigan State College are to be found throughout Michigan — successful dairymen, poultrymen, live stock breeders, fruit growers, florists, landscape ar- chitects, seed growers, foresters, agricultural teachers, county agents, millers, managers of co- operative elevators, railroad agriculturists and limestone and fertilizer salesmen. Many other states and the federal government have gained leaders in agricultural fields from this Institu- tion. Building on this well established founda- tion, the Agricultural Division gives the neces- sary training and inspiration for men who even- tually find splendid opportunities in the widely diversified field offered by agriculture and in- dustries serving agriculture.

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i ' LIBERAL ARTS The obligations of a state educational insti- tution today are large as compared with those of a generation ago. Not only more students are enrolled but a much more extensive curric- ulum IS necessary to meet the needs of society. The latter consideration led to the addition of the Liberal Arts Division to the Michigan State College. Through this enlarged curriculum, combined with generous elective privileges, it has become possible for this college to furnish training for a large number of additional pur- poses. First of all such a curriculum takes care of the student who seeks a broad general training in preference to the technical lines. This type of education involves an effort on the part of the student to understand himself, his capacity and his limitations, as well as to appreciate the world in which he lives. Furthermore, it is true that combinations of subject matter in this Division may be utilized as preparation for some vocational service. Nearly any subject, properly supplemented with allied subject matter, may furnish preparation for entrance into the teaching field. A Department of Education furnishes special instruction in the art of teaching and equips the qualified graduate with a life certificate. Economics and related subjects prepare one for the business career. The skillful student of art, including music in its many branches, as well as drawing and painting, finds such training serviceable for commercial purposes, if he likes. A special course m music leads to a life teacher ' s certificate; similarly, a course in drawing termi- nates in the same type of certificate. This Division in cooperation with the Engineering and Home Economics Divisions, furnishes important subjects for the newly established Hotel Administration course, training men and women for this particular business. It is here that the student finds opportunity to study the great human interests which are becoming of constantly greater concern in society. Finally, there are found in this Division two important courses in physical education, one designed es- pecially for men; the other for women. Both lead to college degrees. Obviously, the subject matter of t his division affords generous opportunities for choice of subject matter in planning one s education. In these efforts on the part of the student to discover a suitable educational program for himself, the faculty of Liberal Arts is ever ready to render assistance in the way of advice and suggestion. 21

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ENGINEERING The demand of the profession of engineering today IS two-fold. On the one hand is the de- mand that the engineering student shall be trained intensively in engineering science re- search. On the other hand there is the demand from industry that the engineering student shall he given a training in the art of engineering, and also such a broad training that he may enter the field of management and administration. With the time available it is impossible to give the student intensive training that will best fit him to perform the duties of the profes- sional engineer, and at the s;mie time give him the broader training that will make him im- mediately more valuable to industry. The divi- sion of engineering has recognized this difficulty and differentiates between the technical and the administrative engineer, offering, as it does in each of the four branches. Chemical, Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, the op- tion of following either the technical course or the Engineering Administration course. m i I I ACTING DEAN 23