Utah State University - Buzzer Yearbook (Logan, UT)

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j EAN WEST in m general charge of the Division of Interior Instruction which includes the work of the College other than Extension and Research. He is Chairman of the Budget Committee and of the Graduate Division. In his dealings with faculty and students, he is clear cut, fair, and tirni, and yet essentially kind. His greatest satisfaction comes from his teaching for which he has a natural gift. Scholarly and thorough, a master of his subject, he is a most inspiring teacher. Franklin L. West Dean of the Facility TO be a friend of girls one must has-c a keen interest in girls, must be able to inspire a feeling of confidence in girls, must understand the problems confronting girls, must have faith in the ability of girls to solve their own problems and must be cogni .ant of the social and economic conditions under which girls arc living. According to this criteria, Mrs. Hendricks qualities as a friend of girls, and she truly occupies such a place in the life of the women of the Utah State Agricultural College. In her classroom as teacher of sociology, as well as in her service as Women’s Advisor, she has a marked influence in the development of personality among the students on our campus. Mrs. Hendricks thinks the typical women of today must possess a combination of characteristics that has not been found in any other women in past history. One of the great needs of the present is for the womanly woman. That type of woman who possesses all the niceties and charms, the grace and beauty, of the truly feminine woman who has been most admired throughout the ages. In addition the woman of today must possess the virtues of strength, of integrity, of initiative, of courage, to face honestly the problems of life, and of willingness to assume her responsibility as a member of society. Carolim M. Hendricks Dean of Women

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THE American college, particularly the publicly supported college, is often criticized because it is not just the tine scholastic and aristocratic thing Oxford or Cambridge is. or an intellectually powerful force such as radiates from the University of Berlin and other great German centres of learning, or because it lacks something that French institutions have. We have a few notable endowed institutions where strenuous attempts arc made to imitate old world, particularly English, institutions, an architectural imitation which is qutc successful and a less successful social effort to be unlike America. In these institutions many of the over-privileged youth of the country who have the requisite intelligence quotient congregate. These institutions arc widely different in spirit from some of the remarkable state colleges and universities of the Middle West, for example, where no apologies arc made for American ideals, but rather where there is a definite pride in these idals. The people who think they are superior are having a hard time since everyone was given a vote and an automobile. A major problem in American education is to slough off the senseless aristocracy of the dead past and retain those necessary refinements without which democracy, in education or anything else, will defeat itself. In the meantime America is making an effort through public support of education including higher education, to equate superiority in terms of usefulness.

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Wm tAM M. Peterson lh jJ of (Ik Extension Service THK Utah Agricultural Experiment Station. established in 1889. is a major division of the college, supported by State and Federal funds. The State funds apply largely to maintenance and operation, the respective Federal funds to specific fields of research. Through this cooperative relationship the state secures many benefits not otherwise attainable. The Experiment Station seeks by research and experiment to solve both farm and home problems, especially those which farmers and farm women individually arc in no position to attack successfully. The problems being studied by the Experiment Station include those pertaining to the maintenance of soil fertility, conservation and efficient utilization of irrigation water, improvement of plants and animals, control of insect pests and diseases, development of cultural methods, marketing of farm products, costs of production, livestock feeding, human nutrition, rural living standards and community relationships. THROUGH the Extension Service the federal and state governments cooperate to help further the interests of Utah farms and rural homes. Findings of experimental agencies in all parts of America are carried directly to the farmsteads by the staff of agricultural and home demonstration 3gcnts and by the specialists in charge of various phases of Extension Service work. It is the means whereby the recommendations of the Experiment Station and the Agricultural College are broadly applied to the practical problems of farm and home. Improved practices in farming and home-making arc taught through demonstrations conducted by local leaders. Extension Service work develops rural leadership among Utah men, women, boys, and girls. It aims to help make the Utah farm profitable and the Utah rural home attractive, convenient, healthful, and desirable. The Extension Service of the United States Department of Agriculture gives liberal assistance to further the work of the Utah Extension Service. The federal department not only administers funds provided by the national congress for extension work, but it supplies also many field specialists who pay regular visits to Utah in the interest of building a well balanced program in this state. i'. V. Cakuon Director of the Experiment Station