University of Nebraska Lincoln - Cornhusker Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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,,qf565?1mg?m,z ' mevi-F1 QQ?,j ,, mqaps sq? College of Agriculture ff Dean Edgar Albert Burnett Agriculture and State E. AV. Burnet! Fifty years ago, in 1872, the College of Agriculture was established. During the early years there were often no studentsg there were crop failures and financial panics far more alarming to the young Nebraska than any depressions of today. Then the institution strug- gled for its existence. But out of all these early struggles has grown the College of the present. The College of Agriculture differs from many colleges of agriculture in that it is not an institution by itselfg instead it is one of the integral parts of the greater University of Ne- braska. The College also differs from the other colleges of the University in that it has its own campus, on the outskirts of Lincoln, and, as provided by law, maintains certain lines of investigation as well as an intimate and personal contact with the farmers of the State. MO1'C than 1,200 students each year attend the College of Agriculture at Lincoln, the School of Agriculture at Lincoln, or the School of Agriculture at Curtis, for which the Col- lege provides from its own funds. The College considers itself fortunate that it is able to offer students all the advantages of the small college, with its intimate contact between students and a campus of its own, together with the added advantage of a large University of which it is a part. The Farmer's Institutes and sugar beet experiments of the 70's have developed into the Agricultural Extension Service and the Agricultural Experiment Station of the present day. Through its resident instruction, the College of Agriculture develops leaders in agricultural thought, through the Extension Service it carries the message of better farming to every corner of the State. Through the Experiment Station it looks forward to solving the new farming problems of Nebraska. With a background of Hfty years of development and experience, the College of Agri- culture looks forward to Fifty years of growth and service. In its instruction, its experiments, and its extension work, it aims to anticipate the future. 4m'VQi!W4 4exWmx'V4E?1e5EV4mY02sL.'W4'i'W4ei'T41FfV4a.J

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am5r4a9,,,4z5mmsytQ,wm 1rq1,h,vfmgEhgw5,ngarAf,h,'umr Teachers College i Dean VVilliam Elmer Sealock Teachers College and State IV. E. Senlork Teachers College was established Hfteen years ago. At that time there were few teachers' collegesg now they are to be found in practically every state university in our country. Our Teachers College began in a modest wayg but fortunately there was estab- lished at the same time a high school to serve as a laboratory for giving actual practise in teaching. The establishment of the high school reflects the wisdom of those who planned the new collegeg for a teachers college without a training school would be on a par with a department of chemistry without a laboratory. C Teachers College trains teachers not only for every department of high school work but for all grades in the elementary schools, including the kindergarten. No higher service can be rendered than the preparation of teachers who train the youth of the State. Teachers College exists solely for the purpose of rendering this service. Its field is the public schoolg its aim is to furnish for the schools of Nebraska an increasing number of earnest, well pre- pared teachers to the end that better educational opportunities may be provided and a high standard of citizenship obtain. Y 4i'W'4i.'W'4 'Q'4W5'vm-n'im ?'a9r V'ash- Ymh'T'AL'W7'4Eh-

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fm?Q,'Tf70mW5'P4.kesWrQ,wh,, 'W4m?WiW4EW4mYW' 1 College of Pharmacy Dean Rufus Ashley Lyman . A Pharmacy and State Rufzu .4. Lyman Primarily the College of Pharmacy exists in order that men and women may be trained so as to be able to give an intelligent Pharmaceutical Service to every community w1th1n the State, An extremely narrow view of the possibilities of the pharmacist for community service is too frequently held. The pharmacist himself is largely responsible for the preva- lence of this view. Too frequently he has been content to become a purveyor of cigars and patent medicines and nothing more. Too frequently has he prostituted his calling and broken faith with his government by illegitimately dealing in those things which destroy the morals and bodies of men. It is necessary for the happiness and health of every community that there be a means of obtaining in that community those substances and those things which are necessary for the care of both the well and the sick. Men of medicine are using a greater variety ot medicinal agents in the treatment of disease than ever before. They are being used with greater exactness-more scientifically. This means that the problems of production, of com- pounding, of standardization, of preservation, and of distributing are of greater importance than ever before. These problems, are the problems of the pharmacist and require a greater training and a more exact knowledge than was needed in the days of uncertainty in medicine. Furthermore, Dental and Veterinarv science have made rapid advances in the last decade both of which bring added responsibilities to the pharmacist in a community. Our increased knowledge in the treatment of diseases and destruction of pest of plants on the farm and in the orchard, and the care necessary in handling stored grains and grains in transit against pests which destroy, has opened un a great field in industrial pharmacy which has scarcely been touched. In all this work the pharmacist of the future will play an important part. Those who have been placed in a position to direct the instruction in the College of Pharmacy realize the importance of the pharmacists in the community and will exert every effort to return to the communities of the State young men and women trained along the lines and imbued with the ideals mentioned in this brief description of the function of the College of Pharmacy to the commomwealth of Nebraska.