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

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Agricultural Hall H. L. Russell Dean College of Agriculture HT one time the public regarded the Agricultur.il College as an institution whose only function was to train farm boys to plow a straighter furrow and to raise more corn on an acre of land. The College was deemed a trade school for farm youth. No branch of educational work has experienced a greater change and reorganization during the past two decades than has college instruction in agriculture. The agricultural student today finds that farming has become a science that utilises all that the chemist, the physicists, the biologists and the social scientists can contribute. The curriculum of the College includes ground work in all these fundamental branches, and specialized endeavor in a dozen specific lines that serve the farm and the agricultural industry. From this course of four years offered at the University students are sent forth with a broad background and understanding of the scientific hast of our present day industry and civilization. The world lus been quick to appreciate this type of training given in our American agricultural colleges, and has opened the door of opportunity to such graduates. As never before they are being accepted as leaders in rural communities. But there are also scores of fields related to agriculture that have opened up for the agricultural graduate. Manufacturing and marketing organizations concerned with agricultural products prefer farm reared men with an agricultural college training. The demand for capable men far exceeds the supply. We expect large achievements from the iqjo class in agriculture, for their opportunities are greater than those of any class that has preceded them. The ”Ag” Buildings ‘Pages 28 ADMINISTRATE O N

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‘The Bureau of (guidance and Records JN a large modern university there is a pressing need for the centralization of an increasingly complex records situation. The records of the Registrar's Office and of other offices in the University are of very great value when full use is made of them for purposes of study and research. The Bureau of Guidance and Records seeks to develop such a circumstance as will economically organize and centralize records, rendering them available to the various departments of the University as they are desired for study, research or service purposes. The relation of an institution of higher learning to the secondary schools is of fundamental significance. Problems common to both institutions are many and significant. The Bureau is created to assist in establishing that relationship between these institutions which will result in a co-operative program of guidance. Such a program aims to give impetus in the high school to a study of individual aptitudes and interests of pupils, to bring to high schfxil students and parents in the early years of the student's career some very definite realization of the predictive effect of secondary school work as it touches upon failure or success in college life. The co-operation of the secondary school principals will make it possible for the University to establish a more effective counseling and guidance program. The Bureau of Guidance plans on securing from high schools such information concerning the interests, special abilities and aptitudes of matriculating students that there may lie a more careful planning of University work and a more effective adjustment of the student to university life and situations. The student within the University, as he elects and pursues his course, will lie served by the Bureau. Such service will consist in an attempt to supply students information that will enable them to know what definite careers and activities university courses prepare for; this service will provide for students such an analysis of occupations and information with reference to occupations that it will lie possible for the interested student to make more intelligent decisions during his student career, guiding himself with a more specific aim during his university course. The staff of the Bureau consists of: F. O. Holt....................................Executive Director V. A. C. Henmon .... Educational Guidance Director A. H. Edcerton.................... Vocational Guidance Director Cm Aims A. Smith F. O. Holt James D. Phillips ADMINISTRATl O N 'Page; 27

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Sterling Hall School of Commerce IN our own day an economic revolution is in process which may be as far-reaching in its influence as that which followed the invention of the steam engine and the opening of the machine age. The United States is rapidly becoming industraliced, its commercial interests are developing new methods of production. new methods of distribution and new methods of financing both. Increasingly we are reaching out into heretofore undeveloped fields for supplies of raw materials and broadening our markets for our manufactured goods. Those who are to meet these rapidly changing conditions need more than ever before an understanding of the fundamental principles upon which all economic development is based. They need. too. an ability to appraise the soundness of the newer forms of production, distribution and financing now coming into use. To furnish such a background and foundation is the task which the School of Commerce sets itself. CiiESTeR Lloyd Joses Director, School of Commerce Chemistry Building ADMINISTRATION Tage 29