University of Delaware - Blue Hen Yearbook (Newark, DE)

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CHARLES ANDREW McCUE, 5. B. Dean of the School of Agriculture SCHOOL OF ACRICULTURE THI!'. functions of the School of Agriculture may readily be divided into three activities, First, collegiate instruction of resident students; second, instruction of residents of the State off the campus; and third, the advancement of knowledge through experimentation and research. The abjectives of student instruction in Agriculture are to give the student in Agri- culture a sound training in the fundamental sciences; the application of those sciences to the art and science of agricultural endeavor; a basic training in the art of human expression through the written and spoken word; and a traming in the fundamentals of citizenship and the relation of the individual to society. Specific training is given in certain elected special branches, such as animal industry, agron- amy, horticulture and training for the teaching of agriculture in the high schoals. The agricultural curriculum has been planned to give the student a broad foundation so that he, in after life, may have a sound point of departure for any profession or activity that he may choose to follow or that circumstances may dictate as wise. Instruction off campus is commonly called Agricultural Extension Work. The object of such off-campus work is to present to men, women, and children the vast store of scientific knowledge and teach through demonstration and otherwise, how such knowledge may be applied to every day affairs in order that a richer and happier rural life may be enjoyed. The objectives of research are to extend the boundaries of human knowledge regarding nature's secrets, and search out the application of such discovered facts to the human affairs and occupations in the open country.

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Department of Military Science and Tactics Doware L. Durros Professor of Miliwary Science and Tactics THI'Z object of the military course given by the Military Department at the University of Delaware is to impart to the student a course of systematic military training for the purpose of qualifying selected students for appointments as reserve officers in the Army of the United States. Although that is the primary object, the course provides training in leadership which will be as valuable to him in his industrial or professional career as it would be should the nation call upon him to act as a leader in case of grave national emergency, The course provides excellent expressed the following sentiment on the duty of college men: It becomes expedient that these persons whom nature has endowed with genius and virtue should be rendered, by liberal education, worthy to receive and be able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens, and that they should be called to the charge without regard to wealth, birth, or other accidental condition or circumstances. 19

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Department of Agricultural Department of Biclogy Education Raysmoxp Warren Hem, A M. Crsron Ossorw Hovenrox, A, B, Professor of Vecational Agricultural Professor of Biology J.'JLl eat i!..lll Department of Agronomy Department of Plant Pathology Geonce Lee Scuvster, 5. M. Tuouwas Fraxeuw Maxxs, Ph, D, Professor of Plant l ;.thul:.;qy and Professor of Agronomy ; : Soil Bacteriology 21