Utah State University - Buzzer Yearbook (Logan, UT)

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DIRECTOR P V CORDON EXTENSION SERVICE The primary function of the Agricultural Extension Service is to carry principles of approved practices, resulting from research. directly to farms of the state and to assist in solving problems pertaining to farming and home-making. The Extension Service is a definite department under the executives of the institution in cooperation with the U. S. Department of Agriculture, but it does not do resident teaching Contacts are made through the county agents who teach largely by demonstration method EXPERIMENT STATION Plant growth is the response of a form of life to its environment. The environment of plant life consists of a combination of soil, wator. and climatic factors Upon plant life, animal life is largely dependent. It is upon both plant and animal life that man dopends for his basic requirements— food, shelter, and clothing. The Agricultural Experiment Station seeks basic facts pertaining to soil, water, climate, plant growth, animal nutrition, inheritance, insect pests, diseases, and other related topics as a guide to their utilization by man in his own behalf. I Tw«nty-i x

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O F CAROLINE M HENDRICKS DEAN WOMEN fit such a time it is fitting to pause in solitude and contemplate the achievements attained to date. Fortunate indeed is the scholar who conscientiously concludes that the profits realized justify the costs involved from the standpoint of both the material and the spiritual values in life. To those students, we offer congratulations and say continue on with the determination to build of your life even a greater structure for service in human welfare. Less fortunate are those students who, because of either internal or external forces, have not reaped a similar degree of satisfaction To them we say, be not discouragod. but rather fortify yourselves with a greater determination to succeed. To all students of the Utah State College we say. have a purpose in life, diligently seek knowledge, have faith in yourselves, have a will to do, then surely your reward shall be the richness that comes from living a full life. Twenty-llva

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DEAN W. L WANLASS SCHOOL OF COMMERCE The School of Commerce is undertaking to train students of character and intellectual ability for responsible positions in business and public service. It is not the purpose to offer highly specialized instruction in various techniques; but rather, by emphasizing the fundamentals, to lay a foundation upon which the graduates of the school may build regardless of the par ticular fields they enter The School of Commerce also attempts, through the inclusion of courses in liberal subjects, to insure that its graduates shall be cultured men and women. SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCE The Utah State Agricultural College may bo likened to a tree, the trunk of which is the School of Arts and Science Through it flows the sap. carrying nourishment to the main branches of the Institution: The Extension Division, The Experiment Station. and the Schools o! Agriculture. Homo Economics. Engineering and Mechanic Arts. Commerce, and Education The School of Arts and Science comprises cnglish and speech, modem language. geology, mathematics, zoology and entomology, physics, chemistry, history. and bacteriology These depar.ments are the roots of the tree and draw sustc nance for flower and leaf from civilization itself. I Twenty-i« von