Utah State University - Buzzer Yearbook (Logan, UT)

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THE OLD CHAPEL Reminiscent College History ST )()1). a stranger, in December. 1889, on the desolate college site viewing its command of scenic beauty. A part of the south wing was all that existed of the college over which I was to preside. Should a vital force arise there creative of a new and richer life for the toiling wealth producers of I'tali? And should that force run in the narrow line conceived for it by the public!—the line of Agriculture ? I was of the soil and fascinated with the philosophical problems ol agriculture. I believed that the highest service that 1 could render the state would consist in the organization of courses of instruction in which agriculture should be the central pillar for training to the highest efficiency the citizen farmer. Yet only the central figure for efficiency. In all the industries each adds to the general wealth and such general efficiency should be taught in an industrial school. 9

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PRES. SANBORN It became the policy of the management to enter the entire unoccupied field of industrial education of l.'tah, this field, of course, embracing domestic science and arts, commerce and mechanic arts. The modest $48,000 required to breathe into this frame work the breath of life was so far beyond public expectation that it was tegarded as a great extravagance for a poor territory with a University on its hands. It was an able legislature and when, member by member. the purposes of the College and its relations to the future of the State, had been explained the appropriation was. as memory has it, unanimously passed. to