University of Idaho - Gem of the Mountains Yearbook (Moscow, ID)

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THE CANNONS Now what of the fourteen per cent? Interested as we are in Idaho's own sons and daughters, what is our attitude toward those who come from other states, even from the ends of the earth, to live and study here? What can it be but one of warm and hearty welcome? Over a hundred of these register from the neigh- boring state of Washington, and many of this hundred live along the boundary line and merely happen to get mail through a Washington post office. Of the remainder, the distribution is really marvelous—and of great value to us all. Thirty states and five foreign countries are represented on this year’s roster. As these young men and women sit in our yarious classes and mingle in our activities, they help to educate us as we educate them. The provincialism inherent in a somewhat remote college community breaks down before such a cosmopolitan opportunity to know other communities and regions and sail the seven seas through the experiences of our immediate friends and neighbors. The native sons and daughters of Idaho are proud of their distinction. Dut we have no strangers within our gates. CRASH? ga mrs : 119) Tae thee Cree eed’: =) . 4 =— . a{ e.. , “ : .

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VIEW OF MOSCOW FROM CAMPUS Native Sons and Others oe latest figures show that all but fourteen per cent of the students at Idaho come from within the state. In the all-Idaho enrollment, every county but one is represented this year, and South Idaho is practically as well represented as is the north. But these students, once they are on the campus, promptly forget sectional prejudices and enlarge the scope of their consciousness and pride to include the entire commonwealth. “Oh, let us sing of Idaho!” becomes a call to worship and pay tribute to first the University, then the great mountain-crested homeland we call our state. True, there are other sons and daughters of Idaho who are seeking college life beyond our borders. The percentage of these is all too large for the good of Idaho. It does not profit a state to bring immigrants in and send high-school graduates out. It does not make for community or state loyalty to covet our neighbor's institutions and belittle our own. [ut the real losers are they who wander afield. They find no better instruction, no finer or more wholesome spirit. And they lose thousands of acquaintances they could make use of all the rest of their lives. They lose the valuable background of Idaho life and Idaho conditions which only one university in the world is interested in presenting. Worse still, they lose contact with Idaho and all she represents of golden possibilities for the future. j18}

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ENGINEERING BUILDING VAS, The University—An Electrical i Clearing House PART from giving the regular courses in electrical engineering, the depart- ment is called upon to assist both the University and the state at large in a variety of ways. Special courses are given on telephone work for the short course Rangers and on the use of electricity in the home for the Home Economics is students. Those presenting pageants and plays frequently ask for assistance in obtaining special lighting effects while the University as a whole is constantly seeking expert advice as to the proper kind and size of motor, oven, electric furnace, signal, meter and so on to purchase and how to repair them. In case of dispute electric power companies sometimes send their test meters to be standardized and occasionally acceptance tests are run on various sorts of electrical machinery. Many ranchers, having small water power sites on their ity places, have secured advice as to the best means of development. Occasionally 2 |. gil strange questions are propounded; for example, the best lightning protection for F a powder magazine—but, naturally, the most frequent inquiries answered are concerning the troubles of the radio fan.