North Carolina State University - Agromeck Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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STATE COLLEGE AND THE STATE E. B. OwKN, ' 98 IV- Mr. H. p.. Owicn Kcfiislrtir It is said tlial in tlic luail of Rmiic tlu-rc uiicc apijeareil a cliasni a|)|)arciitl wiilunil 1)olt in. All tlu- ouiiiliiiRMl efforts of llic citizens were not able to fill it up. As time went oil and every effort that coidd be put forth failed, the people became more and more anxious to see it filled until it became a matter of concern to everyone in r onie. Finally someone proposed that the chasm would close up if the most valuable thing in Rome were llin wn into it. Then it must be decided what tliat niost valuable thing was. As Rome ' s chief business liad for a long time been war, it was easily decided tliat the luost valuable thing was a soldier. So a soldier in full armor sprang into the chasm in the presence of a great assemblage of people. The chasm w-as immedi- ately filled up and all i iime rejoiced. Ill a country like ours, except perhaps in time of war. public opinion would not choose a soldier as the most valuable thing, but rather a man trained for the highest and most efhcient service in coiinecliini with the arts of pe.ice and the common good. In order that wr ina. Iiave the greatest numb T of these most valualile men trained in the .irts of peace, our country and state give liberally out of the public treasury to found and maintain universities and colleges to carry on this work of preparing and training young men to take the pl.ices of oliler iiieii in the inarch of luinian jirogress. llow far the nation and the State are going in the snp|)ort of universities and colleges may be considered a measure of the value which they set upon an educated and trained man. In our own college the combined financial sup- port of national and state governments amounts to .a sum equal to $400 for every student who remains at State College for a year. This sum takes no account of the money which a student himself must pay for hi own personal expenses. That sum is usually as .great as that which comes from the governmental ai)propria- tions. W ' liile the goveniiuent is serving its own ends by doing so miu ' li for these oung men. the obligation nolle the less rest ii|iiin them to make the best use ol their opportunities in college, and after they go away, to serve the State unselfishly and to be loyal to the (. ol lege in all of its efforts to train men to work erticientl . In that way they may help to bring better conditions of living to all of the people and thcrcliy compensate fur some of the lienefits w bieh tlie have enjoyed in college. .Ml). A. 1 ' . HowE.N Tiros Krcr fiu c Tirciily-fniir

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Fr F THE COLLEGE CREED Dr. T. p. Harrison Dcati of Ihc Collci c I. The North Carolina State College believes itself to consist, not merely of grounds and liroad acres, and of buildings with tbeir equipment, Imt also of a Board of Trustees, a Faculty, a 15( d nf Students, and a fast- gruuing Host of Alumni. II. The College believes itself immediately re- spiinsilile tii all the people of the S ate, wlio contribute to its support, and, in some degree, to the people of the whole United States, from whom also it receives bene- faction. These it recognizes as its stockholders. III. The College believes itself under obligation to declare a dividend upon the two millions of dollars invested in it, and the additional appropriation made each year to its use. This dividend it declares annually in the priceless product of approximately one hundred well-trained young men. IV. The College believes in training these choice young men, in body, in mind, in spirit, to go out, not for self, but for service, into tlie State, through the length and ])readth of the LInite l Slates, throughout the world — wherever they can best serve. V. The College believes the men it sends out can best serve the world in the three great interlocking departments of industry : Agriculture, Manufacturing, and Commerce. It therefore trains its students to till the ground, and to teach others to do so ; to build and to manage machines and factories ; to transform the force of river current into heat and light and power, and to deliver these where they can be used: to construct highways and railroads and bridges ; to conduct banking, commerce, and lines of transportation. VI. The College believes it, therefore, to be its high duty to educate these young men to earn a living in competency, and to live a life of service ; to see things — material, intellectual, spiritual — as they are, imagine them as they might be, and make them as they ought to be. VII. The College b.elieves that the men it sends out, coming as they do from that greatly favored land called Carolina, stretching from the azure ocean on the east to the sapphire mountains on the west, moved by the incentive it has inspired, shall, when the records of life are all in, each of them be worthy that it be said of him in truth, witli proper pride, with due modesty: Here zeas a iiuni lo hold tuHiiiisI the world, A mail lo imitch the iiioiiiitniiis mid the sea. Mr. E. L. Clovd Dean of Students PaQe Twenty-three

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CHEMISTRY Chemistry is a study of the composition and constitution of mat- ter, and tlie changes which take place in it. It naturally forms a part of tlie curriculum leading to the Baclielor ' s degree in every institution of college grade, with few if any exceptions, regardless of whether the institution is liberal in culture, or teclmical in char- acter. In this college, instruction in Chemistry begins with the Freshman year, and its courses are open to Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors. Graduate instruction also is provided for those hold- ing the baccalaureate degree from this College, or from institutions of similar rank. ENGLISH All tli.it a University or final highest school can do for us, said Carlyle, is still hut what the first school began doing — teach us to read. This — to get the thought from the written page — the Department of English conceives to he its first duty to the student, regarding that duty as unfulfilled until the student can .answer affirmatively the pertinent query: Understandest thou what thou rcadest? Parallel witli this first purpose, necessarily involved in it, sole conclusive e idence that the first has l)een accomplished, the teachers of English endeavor to impart the ability to express thought in the spoken and in the written word. This power to express thought is in turn coordinate with the cultivation of independent ihinkin.L:. the prime essential in education. The peril in technical education is the tendency toward material- ism. Upon the Department of English devolves the task of couiuer- acting this tendency by seizing every opportimity to introduce to the , student that greatest and purest of humanizing agents, the record of its intellectual and spiritual experience mankind has made in literature. Dr. W. . . Withers Clii ' inistry Dr. T. p. H.vrrisox liiii lisli Page Twenty-five