Utah State University - Buzzer Yearbook (Logan, UT)

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New Woman’s Building Improvements II X the matter of improvements the school year that lias just passed. 1910-11. has been a red letter one in the history of tin College. Without a single exception all of these improvements are of such a nature as to make for the future good of tin school. With the splendid gifts that the today has brought us. the tomorrow of our beloved Alma Mater ought to he a glorious on indeed. The opening of the present school year found the Home Kconomies Department installed in its now quarters in the Woman’s Building. Here in one of the most thoroughly equipped schools for the teaching of domestic science and art in tin West, the young women of our state may have the very best scientific training in every subject relating to the care and management of the home. The inestimable benefits that the future will derive from such a school can hardly be estimated. The most urgent and crying need of the institution today was met when the State Legislature appropriated the sum of $50,000 for tin building of a new gymnasium, which sum was immediately augmented by a gift of $10,000 from Mr. Thomas Smart, one of Logan’s most esteemed and public spirited citizens. Mr. Smart took tin first step in the matter of securing a gymnasium for us by promising us $10,000 in ease the Legislature would appropriate $50,000. The Legislature also gave us an appropriation of $40,000 for the erection of an electric power plant, that will not only supply the I . A. . with electric power, lull will also supply many other state inst it ut ions. —21

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Tin generous legislative hotly also allowed ns $5,000 in order that we might make tin work of the Extension Department of the College, which is doing so much good throughout the state, more effective. The climax of the Legislature's generosity was reached when a bill was passed granting i » every state edueational institution a yearly appropriation based on a percentage of the taxes of the state. 'This we might call our yearly allowance. A Stock Judging Pavilion, where the work in Animal Husbandry can be effectively taken care of, was added to our equipment this year. A new orchard for experimental work has been recently planted, and a new club. “The Faculty Woman’s League,” was organized in September. The nature of the (dub is largely recreative and social. Eligible members are the women of the faculty and the wives of the faculty men. One of tin purposes of tin club is to look after the social welfare of the young women of the College. Stock Judging Pavilion 23—