University of Minnesota School of Agriculture - Agrarian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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EDGAR OBER, MILTON SWENSON, ESTHER NELSON, ANDREW TIEGEN, GERRIT DOUWSMA, ARTHUR MATTSON, ALMA JOSEP1-ISDN, CARL ANDERSON, HERMAN IMDIEKE, ARNOLD SHUTE, OREN SHELLEY, RALPH MIMBAQH, GOODXVIN SONSTEGARD, JULIA HDVEN, KERMIT OLSON. The Honor Scholarship Society HE above picture shows students, who are now attending the School of Agricul- ture, congratulating each other upon being members of the Honor Scholarship Society. This Society was organized only a few years ago. The purpose of this organization is to promote better scholarship. Scholarship alone, however, does not constitute a satisfactory goal in education. Outside activities also play an important part in de- veloping qualities that make for better leadership and citizenship. Membership in the Honor Scholarship Society is based ninety per cent on scholarship and ten per cent on activities. Members of this society are divided into two groups, the active group and the associate group. The members in the active group are made up of the fifteen per cent who have the highest standings in the senior and intermediate classes at the end of each school year. These are called the permanent members. The associate group is made up of the five per cent of the freshmen and the ten per cent of the juniors who have the highest standings each quarter. The purpose of the Honor Scholarship Society is to foster a higher standard of scholarship and all around attainment on the part of the students of the school. Therefore, members of this organization are not only good students, but they also help uphold the high traditions of the school for both scholarship and conduct. --JULIA I-IovEN. PHX? liiglvly-llvri'c

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ROBERT FLESLAND, ALMA JOSEPHSON, LEONE LANGFORD, WILLARD HOLMBERG. The 4-H Club HE 4-H Organization on this campus is composed of students who are members of 4-H clubs in theirhome communities. And what a group this is! Imagine, gathering people from counties all over the state of Minnesota, and from different states of the Union. The motto of all 4-H clubs is 'lMake the Best Better, and all members take this for a goal in their Work. During the summer various projects, such as Leadership, Clothing, Livestock, Garden and Crops, are carried out. There are Livestock Judging and Dairy Judging teams, too, which participate in county, district and state events. The programs of the club are planned with the idea in mind that every member is anxious to exchange ideas with the others and to gather new information to take back home. Mr. T. A. Erickson, state club Leader, gave interesting and inspiring talks at different times during the year. Mr. Kittleson, Miss Schenck, Miss Wessel, Mr. Dankers and others also attended the meetings and made many practical and helpful suggestions for club work. During the past summer a number of the club members were employed as county club agents. Several members of the club have received positions the past summers as paid county leaders. The object of these leaders was to increase the enthusiasm of the boys and girls in the county for 4-H club work, to encourage them and to become members of this organization and to teach them better and newer methods of project Work. -LEONE LANGFORD. Page Eighty-two

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M-R - iz- , A I it AR o M an . EL 1: Soni-I EN GOODWIN SONSTEG RD, EMIL BLOMBE G, WILL D H L un G The Dairy and Livestock Club I-IE Dairy and Livestock Club is a very practical organization. Its members are students of the School of Agriculture who are interested in Dairy and Animal Husbandry. I During the past year meetings were held every other Monday evening. Instructors from the Dairy and Animal Husbandry divisions gave interesting talks, which greatly encouraged the members in this line of work. Graduate students told about the methods of livestock production emplo-yed in foreign countries. Musical numbers and other features gave variety to these programs. On February twenty-second the general Livestock Judging contest was held. Two classes of horses, beef cattle, sheep, and hogs were judged. In one class placings only were given, and in the other both placings and reasons. The following Saturday the Dairy Judging contest took place. A week later came the Dairy Club banquet, at which medals were awarded to the School Judging Team, and ribbons, medals and silver loving cups to the winners of the contest. These awards were given by the State Fair Association, the Land O'Lakes, the Central Co-operative Co., the Jersey, the I-Iolstein, and the Guernsey Breeders Associations. The McCarty medal was presented by Professor McCarty, of Pennsylvania State College, formerly an instructor in this institution. Many of Minnesota's most successful livestock breeders are graduates of this school, who during their school days were members of the Dairy and Livestock Club. -ELMER SOEHREN. Page Eighty-four