University of Tennessee Knoxville - Volunteer Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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The University in the Immediate Future The alumnus, who is familiar with the scope of service of the several elements of the state public school system, may from his knowledge of the economic and social needs of the state determine quite readily the opportunities ahead of our University in the immediate future. The chart which follows demonstrates the organization of the service of these elements as it at present exists, together with the sources of support for each. The elementary school is supported by both state and county, while its service is devoted to its community. The scope of its service is confined largely to the fields of education and the home, and it should function in the businesses of the community. It furnishes, in the main, the mechanics, 0r bases for securing further training. The high school receives its support from both the state and the county and serves the county alone. The scope of its service is limited within the fields of education, the home, agriculture and some of commerce and industry. It trains more broadly than the elementary school, but uses as subject matter only the simpler facts that have been established and attempts, in the main, to apply these facts to existing situations. There is another element in the system, the state normal school, which trains teachers for the elementary and high schools. The University stands alone as the research institution, in addition to its resident and extension trainingiof leaders. Its service is state-Wide, including all the interests and activities of all the people, and its support comes alone from the state. The future Ll'vzzit'erxily embraces not only the teaching of students in the class room, as does each of the other elements of the system, but includes the more universal types of service, research and exlmsion tearhing. It is the business of the State Uni- versity to seek the answers for the general problems arising in the activities of the people of the state. Typical of the research which is being conducted into all lines of activity in Tennessee by the University is the work of the Agricultural Experi- ment Station. The principles and economic plants developed by this Station are worth many millions of dollars to the farmers of the state. Extenxion teaching makes the campus of the University co-extensive with the state, carrying the teaching facilities into the homes and activities of the people. Again, we may refer to a special type of extension teaching as an illustration and call attention to the well known work of the officers and specialists and county agents of the Division of Agricultural Extension as teaching rural people the best methods of production and of home making. The graduate and departing student can do no greater service than that of familiarizing himsellc with the broad work of his Alma lMater and enlarging the opportunities for the distribution of the State Universityys service among the entire people. The immediate future of the University is in the hands of her Children. eH. 14. Morgan. Page Thirteen

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gunnunnuuu... ..u.-u..-nu-nu.....uu.n.. x i. DEAN HOSKINS . .......................... v ........................... DEAN HOSKINS Important Events. in the History of the Unlversity The University of Tennessee under its original name of Blount Collegeewas chartered by the Legislature of the 9Territory South of the River Ohio? September 10, 1794-. Blount College became East Tennessee College in 1807. The present site of the University was purchased in 1826. Name Changed to East Tennessee University in 1840. Agricultural and Mechanical College established by Act of Legislature in 1869. Name of East Tennessee University changed to The University of Tennessee in 1879. The Corner Stone ofvthe new Agricultural Building was laid November 1, 1919, and the building was dedicated June 6, 1921. The Corner Stone of Ayres Hall was laid March 26, 1920, and the building was dedicated in June, 1921. e-J. D. Hoskilzs Payee Fifteen