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rerace Many people will tell you that I first came into existence in 1903. In fact, that was the first year that I had a local habitation and a name. My spirit, however, had been hovering over the prairies for fourteen years, ever since provision was made for my existence by a clause in the state constitution which was adopted in 1889. I issued a call for students to come together on September 22, 1903. Only a few came at first, for of course they did not know me. Then, too, the younger people did not realize as much as they do now, how much broader and better their lives become, if they obtain a good education. Nevertheless, during those first years the faculty was kept busy purchasing equipment, in making plans for the future, and in teaching the numerous courses that were offered. Very few schools of my size have furnished intellectual food of such variety and quality as I have placed before my stuednts each year. They appreciated it too, and told others about me. I was christened the Academy of Science, but I have since been allowed to call myself the State School of Science. As you will notice in my seal, the initial letters stand for System, Science, Service. All my buildings situated on my campus of thirty acres of land, are not all of the State School of Science. These are my physical being. My spirit dwells in many states and in lands across the sea. The young men and women whom I have taught to use their heads and their hands to advantage, have now become scientific citizens of many kinds: farmers, electricians, mechanics, teachers, lawyers, physicians, nurses, missionaries, musicians, architects, dietitians and many homemakers; all these are really a part of me. I have done much to make them what they are. I am still young. I hope to do much more.—Taken from an Autobiography of Science School written bv Miss Lilian Mirick, Librarian in 1921. I am the new Science School—old in years but young in spirit. Ever beckoning students into my acedemic circle, I am proud of my high standards, fine teachers and my ever improving appearance. After fifty years of guiding the young men and women of my state and many of my sister states, I am privileged to join the elite. I am still young. I will do much more.
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!ty •'. . MucMahon The first president of the Science School was Earl G. Burch, for whom Burch Hall is named. He was a native of Dryden, New York, and in the early part of the century had been a teacher of Biology in Fargo and had a good and wide reputation in education. He served as president from 1903 to 1910 and under his administration Burch Hall and the Science Building were added to our campus. For a couple of years after his resignation as president, he served as professor of biology and then returned to his native Dryden where he farmed and, at various times, taught. Fred E. Smith was chosen as president of the Science School in 1910 and served until 1919. He was a native of Vermont and graduated from Dartmouth College. In addition to his degree at Dartmouth, he had a law degree from Albany College, New York. Before coming here, he had served as a school administrator in Fargo and Wahpeton and was well known throughout the state as an educator. During his administration, the vocational factors of the school’s work were in the experimental stage, and President Smith did a great deal to establish and improve vocational courses. When he resigned in 1919 to take an administrative position in South Dakota, he was followed by Garland F. Bricker who served only two years. Mr. Smith died during the 30’s. Mr. Bricker came at a difficult period. Though the Federal Smith-Hughes Act had given strong impetus to trades education, the regristration of Science School was at its lowest ebb and was not prepared to take the position which it deserved and later assumed. Garland F. Bricker, before coming here, had a national reputation in the field of agricultural education. When Mr. Bricker left in 1922, E. F. Riley was made president of the Science School and is still serving as president. In the first year of his administration, two plans were put into operation, which have guided the school for more than thirty years. The first of these was the Babcock Plan, which defined the Science School as, in effect, three separate schools—Junior College. Business School, and Trades School—under the same administration. The second was the North Dakota Plan, which concentrated all higher education for trades at the State School of Science. The present long-range plan for the buildings and grounds of the Science School owes its inception to President Riley, and he will always be remembered as its originator.
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