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

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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

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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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F. E. Ti'Rnkaure Dean The Engineering Building College of Engineering |T N the College of Engineering we offer tour-year courses in the five major divisions of Engineering I Civil. Mechanical. Electrical. Chemical, and Mining and Metallurgy. These courses are not highly technical, hut arc concerned mainly with the fundamental mathematics and science and advanced courses in applied science pertaining to various branches of engineering, such as mechanics, thermodynamics, theory of electricity, chemical technology, geology, and metallurgy. From forty to forty-five per cent of the total required hours is made up of courses in the College of Letters and Science, including English, mathematics, chemistry, physics, economics, and some general electives. The remaining fifty-five to sixty per cent is devoted to advanced applied science and a limited amount of practice in the applications of this work to the solution of engineering problems. In spite of the very great development in the field of engineering science and practice in recent years, there has been little tendency to increase the time required for the first degree in engineering beyond four years, as it is the consensus of opinion of both engineers and teachers that the education of the engineer beyond this period is for most students best secured in connection with practice. For those interested in research work and the higher technical phases of engineering, post-graduate studies are recommended. An important part of the work of the College of Engineering is its research work, organized as an Engineering Experiment Station. Fngincermg problems are essentially research propositions to a greater or less extent, and the conduct of a considerable amount of research work in laboratories is of very great value to the teacher and. directly and indirectly, to the student. This phase of the work of engineering colleges has. in general, increased very greatly in recent years and has brought about a much closer co-operation between practicing engineers and engineering faculties, to the great advantage of both groups. The Dnvc' Past the Engineering Laboratories 'Pagej y A I) M 1NISTRATION