Utah State University - Buzzer Yearbook (Logan, UT)

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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

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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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DEAN E J MAYNARD SCHOOL OF HOME ECONOMICS Growth is the absorbing topic of interest in the School of Home Economics this year With the completion of the new building there will be opportunities for expansion in breadth as woll as in length of Home Eco noinics training. Closer coordination of objectives and activities in the three fields of Home Economics Education, i. e.. Research, Resident Teaching, and Extension Service, is being attempted in an effort to serve more fully the interests of the people of the state SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE FORESTRY The present agricultural program is demanding a trained personnel Each of several gigantic federal and state projects will need many hundreds of scientific workers. ft basic scientific training, a clear view into the various fields of agriculture, specialization to a desirable degree, and the cultural opportunities that insure high ideals of citizenship are available at the Utah State Agricultural College and its Schools of Agriculture and Forestry. Twenity'«l jht