North Dakota State University - Bison Yearbook (Fargo, ND)

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AND ITS FUTURE another junior builds his model poultry house. A proud freshman looks up from his close inspection of a ring of fat steers just as this new note in education sings out to him the reason why better beef steaks could be cut from steer No. 1 than from steer No. 3, The senior, carefully weighing his colony of white rats from day to day, listens more sharply than ever before to the vitamin note in animal nutritiong vitaminfdeficient diets in man or beast have become real matter of concern to this modernistic inquirer after truth. The freshman, scratching his head over an English theme, learns to put his thoughts in tune, the art of expression becomes an instrument on which he will then ring the changes through his entire life. The sophomore, peering through his microscope, discovers that the tiniest of notes may set into vibration mighty forces for good or evil, for these minute bacteria with which he plays are potent forces in agriculture, and he learns to direct the good ones toward useful ends and to control the evil ones. Physical, biological, social, and economic science ring out their notes of truth in the service of that most modernistic of men, the farmer of North Dakota. .l Dean The School of Agricultwre and Some Agricultuxralists Page 23

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AGRICULTURE Dice Stevens McCaul Scranton Thomton R. C. Miller The modernistic note in college education in America was struck when Senator Morrill laid the foundation which made possible college education in agriculture and the mechanic arts. The School of Agriculture in this college has been ringing the changes on that note ever since the college was established in 1890. That note has been muffled at times as financial stress has limited the ambitions of a far' seeing faculty and enthusiastic student body, but during the later years it has rung clear and loud, inviting the youth of North Dakota to listen to this call: Know why, that will teach you how and when. As the L'why is acquired, so grows the stu' dent in the science of agricultureg as the L'how and the 'Lwhenn develop, so grows the student in the art of agriculture. When the bell rings in the Department of Agricultural Economics, a sophomore is found trying to strike a balance on a set of books in farm accountsg he is after the why of financial success or failure. As the gong sounds in the Department of Agricultural Engineering, a junior looks up from his task of designing a dairy barn adapted to the climate of North Dakota. The whir of the bells finds the senior in entomology intent upon the life history of the grasshopper in order that he may discover methods for its control. The melody of this new note in edu' cation is in tune with the tapftap of the hammer and the ripfrip of the saw as Page 22

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SCIENCE AND LITERATURE ' 11- fii' 17 ' 1- Legg,-,tr-,fa I , Y Metzinger Whedon Doefr Hunsaker Hunter The School of Science and Literature is the mixing bowl of the college. At the outset of his career here, every student finds that he has many of his subjects in this school, for all schools feel that their students must have English, and many require mathematics, botany, Zoology or geology, while history, economics, foreign languages, and public discussion, if not on the required lists of every school, are among the popular electives. Most of these lines of work have their headquarters and many of their classes in Science Hall, which is accordingly one of the crowded buildings on the campus, so crowded in fact that both students and faculty are look' ing forward eagerly to the completion of the remaining wing of the building at an early date. Then it will be possible to bring back the History Department from Engineering Building where it has been marooned in rather alien surroundings for two years and to give the Geology Department space again in the building where it functioned with botany and Zoology for many years in its earlier history. Students of public discussion will continue to go for their work to the Administration Build' ing where recent enlargement gives that department a unique and commodious group of rooms centering about the Little Country Theater. In addition to affording an opportunity to the students in the six other technical and professional schools on the campus to master the common tools of their trades Page 24