Utah State University - Buzzer Yearbook (Logan, UT)

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HON. A. H. LUND shall be to teach such branches of learning as are related to Agriculture, Mechanic Arts, and such other scientific and classical studies as shall promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes. “The course of instruction shall embrace the English language and literature, mathematics, civil engineering, agricultural chemistry, animal and vegetable anatomy and physiology, the veterinary art, entomology, geology and such other natural sciences as may be prescribed, technology, political, rural and household economy, horticulture, moral philosophy, history, book-keeping, and especially the application of science and the mechanical arts to practical agriculture in the field.” In arranging for the work of the College President Sanborn recommended that there be a preparatory year, and four-year courses in Agriculture, Domestic Economy, Mechanic Arts and English. The Board decided that daily chapel exercises should be held, that there should be no tuition fee, but that students should pay an entrance fee of five dollars per year, or three dollars per term. The general plan of the experimental and school work was thought out and developed during the administration of President Sanborn. 9

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COLLEGE HISTOR Y . A. H. LUND, a thoughtful, far-sighted man of keen observation, anticipating the needs of our future great commonwealth, and guided by the example of many of the other states, prepared the bill establishing the Agricultural College of Utah and watched it carefully until it passed Territorial Legislation March 8th, 1888. Governor Caleb W. West, W. C. Hall, J. T. Hammond, J. H. Wilcox, A. O. Smoot, Jr. and Jesse V. Fox, Jr., who were appointed as the board of Trustees, met at Logan June29th and organized by electing Governor West, Pres.; J. T. Mammon Supt.jJ. T. Caine, Jr. Sec.; and H. E. Hatch, Treas. After visiting prospective sites for the College, one on Providence bench and two on Logan bench, the Trustees chose and formally accepted in May 1889, the present location proffered by Cache County and Logan City. A contract was let for a 820,350 building which was to l e completed in November. Prof. Jeremiah Wilson Sanborn, of New Hampshire, who was appointed Director of the Experiment Station, arrived in Logan January 22nd, 1890. Through his efforts the Government made arrangements for an annual appropriation of $15,000 for the Experiment Station. W. P. Cutler of Cornell, E. S. Richardson and A. A. Mills of the Kansas Agricultural College, came to the College to act as chemist, horticulturist and superintendent of farm and experimental work. Professor Sanborn was elected President of the Faculty and appointed Professor of Agriculture. To him was left the matter of employing instructors, preparing a course of study, buying apparatus and supplies, getting up catalogues and advertising the institution. The Act of Establishment states that the leading object of the College 8

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MON. D. McCORXICK In 1894 additional apparatus was provided; a forging house and a veterinary laboratory were constructed. In 1896 the Legislature passed a law providing an annual appropriation to the College of 815.00 for the purpose of holding farmers’ institutes in the different counties of the State. During this year, part of the Mechanic Arts building was completed, and the forge shops were removed from the main building. In 1897 the Legislature made an appropriation for the maintenance of a Manual Training School, and for the Mechanic Arts Building, providing roomsfor the chemical laboratories, and the carpentry and machine shops. Manual Training courses were established in Mechanic Arts and Domestic Arts. In 1899 a green-house was constructed and equipped. In 1900 a department of art was established, additional class-rooms were furnished, and the several departments throughout the institution were more thoroughly organized. The legislature of 1901 appropriated $108,200 for general maintain-enee and various improvements, including the completion of the front of the main building, the construction of model farm buildings and vegetation house, and of additional land for work in irrigation investigations. 10