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

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DEAN FERRIS College of Engineering A broad held of activity lies before the graduate of the College of Engineering. When he goes out from this College of the University of Tennessee he has been prepared to help develop the natural resources of the state. which may well be boasted of, furnishing as they do the raw materials for industries in many states. Tennessee is rich in promise for the technical graduate who is willing to put his efforts where they are needed, and who wishes at the same time to give service to the state. If he becomes a manufacturer he finds conditions most favorable. Cli- mate, fuel, coal and water powerelabor and raw materials combine to make the manufacturers outlook a prosperous one. Where ever there is 21 successful leader in industry, capital is quick to find him out. New transportation problems are facing the state. Tennessee has not really begun to build highways yet. When she does begin her great pro! gramme of highway building she will need 500 experienced and trained highway engineers. Besides men to supervise and design, to direct the men who build the roads, she will need others to organize. and put into effect a system of maintenance that will rival in magnitude the task of building. The. University of Tennessee is adequately equipped to train men for all these fields of service to the community and t0 the state. Page Twenty-tlzree

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DEAN WILLSON College of Agriculture The far reaching influence of Rliltonhs Tractate on Education was the inspiration which led Senator Justin S. Morrill 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 upon a sure and perpetual foundation, accessible to 2111, and 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 ignored, and where agriculture, the foundation of all present and future pros- perity, may look for troops of earnest friends, studying its familiar and recondite economies, and at last elevating it to a higher level, where it may fearlessly invoke com- parison with the most advanced standard of the world! Page Twenty-two

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The University, Past and Present It is difficult for students of the twentieth century to conceive of a college president fighting Indians and fighting them courageously and ef- fectively. It is more difficult for us to realize that the first president of our University did just this very thing. These were days when men feared God and kept their powder dry. Perhaps this indicates more graphically than could any thing else how firmly rooted is the past of our University. The early history of the University of Tennessee is inseparably linked with that of the state and the records of the University entwined with memories of illustrious pioneers bringing us in closer touch with the inspir- ing history of these early days. Every page of the pioneer history of Tennessee glows with romance and there is a certain fascination in the chronicles of our forefathers who suffered, dared and achieved, fighting the good tht, by virtue of fearless determination and rugged strength of character. In contrast with the ancient Universities of Europe, the University of Tennessee seems in the first flush of youthful vigor. To us, however, that live in a Civilization that is comparatively new, in a land where savage red men roamed through vast wildernesses broken only here and there by small settlements, a cluster of houses surrounded by the palisaded block house, even since the last century began7 an institution well deserves to be termed historic and venerable when its founding antedates by two years the establishment of the state government. Page Twenty-faur