University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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i ' olli o 4if Agri€ iilliire Ralph Hargrave Dean Mumford Ralph Hargrave President John Baker Vice-President Oscar Thorn Secretary Ralph Thompson Treasurer Ted Barbee Chaj- lain THE College of Agriculture has a threefold purpose: to train prepared students in a standard college; to carry on scientific research for the benefit of agriculture and rural life; and to extend this knowledge, so far as is possible and practicable, to the people who are unable to come to the central institution at Columbia. In pursuance of these purposes there has been organized a College for stu- dents at Columbia, a division of the University of Missouri, an Agricultural Experiment Station for the purpose of conducting scientific research, and an Agricultural Extension Service, the members of which devote their entire time to teaching and demonstration outside of Columbia. The College has trained a very large number of men and women for useful careers, many of w hom are now engaged as technicians in colleges and universities, with great corporations, as managers of large farms, or as farm owners. The College of Agriculture owes its establishment to a demand on the part of the people them- selves for a type of education expressed in the Morrill Act of Congress approved by President Lincoln in 1862. The provisions of this Act require these institutions to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in order to promote the liberal and practical educa- tion of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life. The Federal Congress further endowed these institutions by the passage of the Hatch, Adams, and Purnell bills which provide additional appropriations to these institutions for scientific research. In 1914 Congress passed the Smith-Lever Act which provides funds specifically for the purpose of extending the knowledge of agriculture directly to the people engaged in the agricultural industry. Dean F. B. Mumford Page 12

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riillc s e of Arts aiitl !$eieiiee Dean Tisdel C. E. Shepherd Charles E. Shepherd President Frank Jones Vice-President Mary Louise Patterson Secretary Louise Kestner Treasurer THE College of Arts and Science of the University of Missouri, oldest of the ten divisions of the University and the largest in point of numbers, pro ides the basic course for entrance to various ones of the professional schools. While this is not the chief function of this college, yet it is of great importance from the standpoint of the University as a whole. The College of Arts and Science aims to prepare the student in a fundamental way for a place in societ ' at large rather than for a place in a profession. In its various curricula this college has in mind not only its obligation to the student but its obligation to society. Both objectives are important and neither can be entirely lost sight of. This college aims to produce in its students that open minded- ness which results from intellectual ferment; it aims to give them inward resources which will produce happiness and success in later life; to see the truth as it is; to think clearly and without prejudice and to a definite end, and to know the significance of the physical, biological and social world in which they live. In order to secure these results the student ought to be familiar with the method of science, and with the procedure employed in scientific laboratories. He ought to know something of philosophy and literature, music and art, because these subjects stimulate interest in the intellectual and spiritual values of life. He ought to know something of what man has thought and felt and done in the past and what his relationships to the social organization should be at present. For these reasons the College of Arts and Science provides a curriculum which includes in every students ' course of study certain subjects in natural science, in the humanistic studies and in the social ' sciences. Dean I-rederick M. Tisdel Pai.-I}