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

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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

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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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MATHEMATICS Matlieiiiatics has bt-en apprupruitely called the Queen of the Sciences. Its applications are so interwoven with all forms of human tliDughl anil action that they cannot he separated from tlie develop nient of the human race. Every student ' s curriculum should reipiire a course in .Mathematics — not only for its aesthetic and cultural value, hut hecause no other subject so thoroughly develops the mind and the imagination. The habit of accurate thinking and the forming of quick and correct de- cisions, acquired by its study, cannot be overestimated. The Department of Mathematics at State College hohls a unii| ie place. Being a technical school, every engineering student is requireil not only to master the general theory of mathematics, but to nlitaiu a thorough working knowledge of those principles he needs in his engineering course. MODERN LANGUAGES pkoi-. r, 1-:. 1,. -. Ti-:s Miillu-iiititiis . s a world power the I ' nited States occupies a position where it is necessary that her repre- sentatives in the business, diplomatic and social world should have a working knowledge of the countries to which they go. With this end in view, it is the aim of the Department of Modern L;mguages to instruct in French, German anil Spanish with an eye not only to business but also to culture for we believe that it is then, and then nnly, that the student will get the kind of knowledge that will round out his education with pleasure and profit alike resulting. Students have displayed excep- tional interest in our work in the past and for the future we anticipate a continuous growth of the department. PHYSICS The rapidly stands as the gat ' tlie first time the future enginee Physics Department, one of the most growing departments of the College, way to Engineering. Here for begins to ineas- Prof. L. Mdiirni P.. lIlXKUli .(i )(;»ij.i ( ' .f ure and compute the forces that are found m Nature. To control and develop the forces will lie his occupation. Therefore the work in the Dci)artment of Physics in every way is made not only thorou.gh but interesting. . certain element of love at first sight is encouraged in this first meeting and controlling of forces. . s other Sciences develop, they too find their bases lie in the iiUor- action of forces. Even the chemist, who pairs off the atoms according to their affinities, has to gromul himself here in the action of these forces as they produce attractions. The student of . griculture seems a bit further removed until he begins to add to his great industry of liroduction, machines to multiply force and control jiower ; or again tt ' ben he goes deeper into Nature ' s forces in soil and plant. Hence from every corner of the campus come the students to the Physics Dejiartment and find tliere a fuller understanding and ability gained in their resjiective fields. Page Twenty-six