University of Wisconsin Madison - Badger Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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Some of them are very partially expressed, some now find expression in 4 definite courses of study, and some will doubtless develop into new schools or col- : leges, as medicine did. Through all of these changes, in keeping the old and accepting C the new, in adding this course and giving ' separate existence to that, the College will ' remain the most central and highest expres- sion of that intellectual life and vigor of the community which produced and maintains the state university. As it embodies and fosters that life, it becomes also the mother of the new and concrete forms in which that life takes new expression. I 3 The . College of Agriculture ff' 't'N 'N Dean H. L. Russell Pain' 5 OLLEGES of agriculture . are now undergoing rapid il X transformations. With the , . establishment of the experi- Q ment stations, the emphasis if - ' F of these institutions was I on agricultural research, but R the last decade has witnessed , an influx of students into M the distinctively university yi courses that has been quite Ft-1, .N a,:. s phenomenal. In 1900 this Agricultural College had ten students in the four-year Long Course, 1 this year there were over 5001 In addition there are 100 students in the two-year Middle Course, having the same entrance qualifica- l- tions, and 160 women in Home Economics. l Fifty students are now in graduate work. The last year has witnessed the strengthen- . ing of the curriculum of both the Long and Middle Courses. Chemistry has been in- attention should be given the business end of farming and the social problems of rural life. Agriculture has become so thoroughly specialized that no one department con- cerned -with production looks upon the farm as a unit, as a business problem. The organization of economic and sociologi- cal departments in agricultural colleges in direct and intimate contact with depart- ments concerned with production, has been a most important recent :advance of this College. Farm management is essentially the business end of farming. During the last year the work in agricultural economics has been still further expanded through the addition of a chair on marketing and dis- tribution. This will also embrace the subject of cooperation. Another important advance has been the organization of work in forestry. It is not the purpose to develop a school of professional forestry for the training of forest engineers, but to train men for the practical work of forest management. The work of the forest rangers course will be given during the winter at the University, but from April until October inclusive, the students will be in the woods, carrying on during the summer the detailed operations of nursery planting, building roads, telephone lines, fire lines, lookout towers, and all the detailed work of the ranger. Courses in woodlot management will be offered to agri- cultural students this coming year. A most important function of the agricul- tural college is the agricultural extension service, through which the results of scientific inquiry are carried directly to the man on the farm. Two new features of significance have been added this past year: 1. Educational trains, with some specific purpose in view, such as seed improvement, potato culture, or live stock development, were run in cooperation with the railroads and various state organizations, reaching over 32,000 farmers in over 100 meetings. 2. The establishment of a system of resident representatives of the Agricultural College staff in the various counties was begun, four counties now being organized. This staff member spends his entire time in 1-'-i1- - N, ' . .gl 1 BADC-igER,,i a 1 4 N .-A l f --l l sie- . . 'Eff 'T liege. li 5?-:Lx .11?'tf1ff2- , . if , Q- ' iv 'K' ki '55, 5, fi 5-iss-.tw :bs - ws. 1-,pqfszf -, lv' ' t ' r' ',.' '.- -.- wt. , W.. ' . 43: :I .0 N 4:32 .11 :-QM? ji if 'il-fQ, x.-f.a :JJ f' 'Wi xe.3Wf1'I f' 4. ' Y? ,3il'53, il ' I Iwilizgifm creased through the organization of a itinerant instruction of the farmers during -.1 l:!' . . . . - -' .,-xx 2, J-f'-'-.K separate course in organic chemistry. We the summer, helping them to meet their N Vfj- I H I -' have now come to the stage when much problems on their own farms. During the : V u ,J 741.1 , L .Q av- Xxx' 'wg -j?' 'ftf ':.fi ,1 - -. if-f-.f.-rp-in-vw 4: -,- -7 F T'-M il'-if 'Fr-,wgye if af: 1 . ' 'l-AEI' J fr X ii ' I 'J 'f - . i i 'Y W-.. . . 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At present we are almost danger- ously successful especially in matters ath- letic. However, a little prosperity will not do us any harm. The College of Letters and Science Dean E. A. Birge f HE organization of the Uni- Q versity has been changed several times since it was first established, and these changes have altered the name and extent of that part of the institution now known as the College of Letters and Science. Yet the real nature and po- sition of the college have been but little modified. It constituted practically the whole of the University until the establish- ment of the Law School. From it were de- veloped the courses which later grew into the Colleges of Agriculture, Engineering and Medicine. The central aim and purpose of the College has been to give its students a liberal educa- tion, in the sense in which that term is used by the English-speaking peoples-an educa- tion which introduces the student to the learning that the race has achieved, which gives him the qualifications necessary to enter the intellectual life, which 'prepares him to take part in the advancement of p 1 learning, and which gives him a peculiar fitness for the study of one of the learned professions. At first the work of the college was limited to the traditional learning-the humanities, in the older sense, language and letters, mathematics and philosophy being central studies. Forty years ago its work was en- larged but its aims were hardly changed by the introduction and the great development of the sciences and the modern languages. In the later years of the nineteenth century profound social and educational changes oc- curred, which very greatly modified the work of the college, and whose effects are yet to be fully realized. These have come from a rapidly increasing sense of the com- plexity of social problems and of the conse- quent skill and training necessary for those who are to handle them. With this belief have also come the need of a place for new professions and for a broader training for the old ones. As a result, the life of the College and that of the community now interlock in many ways unknown a genera- tion ago. Its work is correspondingly modi- fied. From a relatively simple, coherent task, marked out in large part by tradition, it has passed to a congeries of services very diverse and existing in very various grades of development. The College now gives both general and special preparation to lit students of law and medicine. It gives professional train- ing in many departments of graduate study and research. It furnishes to under-graduates professional or semi-professional training for teaching in various lines, in preparation for business, for work as chemist, and in other directions. Still more, the vast increase of attention to social and economic problems, to history and politics, in their wider sense, during the last twenty-five years resulted in a corresponding development of those de- partments which consider these problems, in the attention given to them by students, and in the relation between the public life of state and nation with these departments and their students. Probably no other single element of change has so deeply af- fected the College as has this one. Thus the College of Letters and Science is a place of intellectual changes so rapid and so great as to deserve the name of revo- H , f I ' .ITN 'ff ff, - ,, ., X, , . 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. .. .1 --.V - w.',i,:r.. fps, f N11-','3f,w 'J'Q I WF l'f'4l',fsea 4' wi , mf ,J 1 wi3.'1gggwe:gg N-r.,zgff.:il1b5! 'lgfasifffitsiiiwaeizhiini, 'illli?Tw1llggi.i21+i'i . ' Filiii ' ,,,. ci xlfgf-,.19,.S:'5i.lra 'w'5,i'j:l'i- 'f13i3,:'if'i'E2f, -hifi !'J ' ,:-' 1: .QyQ'f'f, ' '7'i'i:,, ',.,, t ' 554, li V' 4.1.11 f mg. p1. M, -,,1':,3mN-. ,M '- ': yfjrQ,, .. ' K V fi,3.j,4-.:j',' N. ilfxii - f'- Lim. i,i.1.xY12i1fSi5+.. ,f'1!eMffimzs X X Aziknixwnl,--:iiii1iiii,ifl!a-itii 1. will 1. .. ll ff'-1 f dull! - 191 'ir ,...,- winter, his time is occupied in giving agri- at least a reasonable degree of success, and V 1 j 'Q,,l, 2' NH W.. fi .ai 3 cultural instruction in the county training many of them occupy positions of great profit E -Q .i .. 'Q-,fu school for the preparation of teachers, hold- and responsibility. , I ing a boys' short course, a sort of a continua- The work ofthe College is confined mainly i X tion school, and carrying on general farm to the instruction of students in the regular 1 A institutes throughout the county. four-year engineering courses. Alternative g - - , courses inthe same general lines have been laid i The College of out requiring live years ofcollege work-for com- . D pletion. The additional year thus included l Engilneeflng is given over partly to general study and , I artly to advanced technical instruction. -. Dean F' E' Tufneaufe P The teaching faculty of the College of En- NGINEERING instruction at gineering numbers twenty-eight professors 1 W the University of Wiscon- and thirty-four instructors and assistants. Q sin was provided for as The teachers of technical studies are , I U v early as 1866, in the statutes practical men as well as theoretical men, i 3 E Q reorganizing the university. who keep in close touch with the best practice 1 ' The department of civil engi- of the profession. Scientific experimentation ' . ' neering was established in is an important part of the work of the col- L 1869. The nrst engineering lege, both in connection with the work of ' degree was given in 1875. teaching and in conducting practical investi- i The mechanical engineering gations of value to engineers and the public i TQ course was established in at large. Those problems which are of , 1875, and the electrical en- special interest to the people of the state of gineering course in 1890. Wisconsin are given preference. Results The College of Mechanics and Engineering of these experiments are generally published ' , was organized as a distinct college in 1888, as university bulletins. During the past five 1 but it was not until about 1890 that the at- years about twenty bulletins have been tendance began to increase rapidly. The published relating to the subjects of rein- ' chemical engineering course was begun in forced concrete, hydraulics, sewage disposal, I, 1905 and the mining engineering course as steam machinery, electric lighting, alloy - ii , at present constituted was established in steels and others. 1907. In 1912 the total number of engineer- The College occupies five buildings costing ' , V V ing graduates numbered 1,605. The total about 3,300,000 and has a laboratory equip- Q number of first degree numbered 1,482, and ment valued at about S180,000. l i second degrees 123. These graduates are f 4 distributed among the courses as follows: The School of Music 2 4 Civil engineering, 5135 mechanical engineer- 1 ii ing, 3455 electrical engineering, 461, general Director L' A' Coerne i K engineering, 93g chemical engineering, 453 ' 'Q HE development of the mining engineering, 25- School of Music during the About twenty-five per cent of the alumni present year shows marked hold positions in manufacturing establish- increase in enrollment, ments, twelve per cent are in government , 'V greater efficiency on the part i 3 ' D service, twenty percent in the employ of rail- of the instructional staff, I ,t lfifiiff roads and public utility companies, twenty per K Ak i higher standards of scholar- '-A, IF 5.11 TL? cent are in general engineering and contracting, , ,Q i f ship, and better facilities ' 3-,ij fl eight per cent are teaching and five per cent 5 on the practical side through MWA ' fi are in miscellaneous engineering Work. purchase of apparatus and 43?,5f?iTjZ 7 About ninety per cent ofthe entire number , ' , the building of additional xiii'-im: of graduates of this college are following the teaching and practice rooms. 1 profession of engineering or are 1n business It is the aim of the school I positions closely allied thereto. Information to encourage a parallel development of both ii ' ,,,,,, if Shows that the engineering graduate achieves professional and cultural activity. , f 3 22 Y - -1' 7 V .1--Q, 1. - -V . . H .f,,.x ,,,. gT'?,f' ii . I . , fgi7,ff,,..if- flil 'T 1 ' he es - , f' 'flffzf ,- ,M-Jiiw 1 i 1 . - '.W'4f '---, I -'l' ,,., ,511 ,. fri, iii ' 1 4 1- 2-15 , , .- Mx 73 at ll' -',f '-.kV i 5 ,l-' ia, .1'- 533 i.,,,..:it-. ,L :tall'i ,f1-ii5ii55f..4L:. J ...F 1 rt ' ' '1-l - i-5557'.i1 i':1.' 1- ff 1 -if fz.f'.el-ag... 2