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

Page 19 text:

DEAN WILLSON College of Agriculture This statement from lVIiltonls famous Tractate on Education was the inspira- tion which led Senator Justin S. lVIorrill of Vermont to conceive and carry to a successful conclusion the Land Grant Act of 1862, which created the Land Grant Colleges and placed them lupon a sure and perpetual foundation, accessible to all, but especially to the sons of toil, where all the needful sciences for the practical vocations of life shall be taught; where neither the higher graces of classical studies, nor the military drill our country so greatly appreciates, will be entirely ignored and where agriculture, the foundation of all present and future prosperity, may look for troops of earnest friends, studying its familiar and recondite economics, and at last elevating it to a higher level, where it may fearlessly invoke comparison with the most advanced standard of the worldl. eC. 14. Willson Page Seventeen

Page 18 text:

DEAN PORTER College of Liberal Arts It is the love of learning which is, and always has been the sustaining force in every College of Liberal Arts. The success attained by a College of Liberal Arts and its value to society are comniensurable with the degree to which this motive dominates the members of its faculty and permeates its student body. An institution is great when its faculty are scholars and its students are eager in the pursuit of knowledgew when they are not drawn but led to the fountains of intellectual inspiration, and drink of the waters for the sheer satisfaction Which they bring. This is an ideal. It is one towards which the College of Liberal Arts of the University of Tennessee is working, and we believe we are making progress. Immediate material rewards need not be expected by the student Who seeks knowledge for its own sake. History is full of pioneers in intellectual research Whose names shine like stars in the firmament. They died poor; discovery of the truth was their reward. From their sowing posterity has reaped the harvest of great material prosperity. When the love of learning dies the College of Liberal Arts dies, material progress ceases, and society stagnates. eJ. T. Porter Page Sixteen

Page 20 text:

p-un-n-n-u-n... nu-unuuuo-u-uunnunu DEAN FERRIS The College of Engineering The young man graduating today from the Coll'ge of Engineering need not leave Ten- nessee to seek opportunity for service. Tennessee is the Land of Promise. It is rich in opportunity for the young technical graduate who would put his effort where it is needed, who wants to do a man's task in the world and who feels the call to give service to his native state. Would he become a manufacturer? In no state of the Union are conditions more favorable; a climate that will allow the maximum of human effort, without the shock of winter cold, or the drain of summer heat; power from our own coal fields, or better, from our many water falls, may be had at a price below the cost to our neighbors to the north or to the south. We boast of our natural resources and well we may, for they furnish the raw materials for many industries in many states. And in no section of the country can the manufacturer find more intelligent labor, more capable of acquiring any degree of skill needed to produze a highly developed, finished product. Does some one ask who will supply the needed capital? A great man in a neighboring state said that whenever he found a man he built a mill. The successful leader in industry is rare, so rare that capital seeks him. He need not wait for capital. Would the young graduate elect to help solve our modern transportation problem? Ten- nessee has nct yet seriously begun to build highways. We will not long remain in the back- ground, and sooner or later, we hope soon, Tennessee will be expending $10,000,000 annually on a system of highways, calling for a minimum of 500 trained and experienced highway engineers to design and supervise; calling for many men of dash and courage and great re- source to marshall the men and materials to build the roads; calling for men to organize and put into effect a system of maintenance that will rival in magnitude the task of building. And when this net work of highways is completed, there will come a new transportation problem, that of establishing and operating great motor bus and truck lines from the homes of the people to their markets, their schools and their churches. Could a young man get a finer Vision of service than to loyally remain in the state that has dealt with him generously, to use his talents and training to make his community a better place to live, to make life richer and fuller by using the forces and materials of Nature for the benefit of this and future generations? -C. E. Ferris Page Eighteen