Washington State University - Chinook Yearbook (Pullman, WA)

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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING M ECHANICAL Engineering prepares men for the great fields of manufacturing, power production, transportation, etc., their multitude of ramifications and subdivisions, ranging from the designing of a caterpillar tractor to the perfecting of an automatic machine for weaving silks, or from the testing of a 50,000 H. P. steam turbine to the development of standards of measure¬ ments bordering closely upon a millionth of an inch. Mechanical engineering is also associated with commercial training in the new course in commercial-mechanical engineering. AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERING I N order to accommodate young men who wish to enter the auto¬ mobile business, a group of courses has been arranged in a two- year schedule, in which the necessary fundamentals of electricity, gas engines and automobile construction are taught and a large amount of laboratory practice is included. The courses in ignition, carbur¬ etors and storage batteries have been worked out with particular care in order to make them as directly useful as possible. Students having considerable previous experience can cover the essentials of this course in one year. MATHEMATICS M ATHEMATICS is an art as well as a science; it has utili¬ tarian and aesthetic values. Those who pursue the study of Mathematics find the same pleasure in discovering harmonies of numbers, properties of space, and relations of functions which is found by other artists in poetry, painting, sculpture and music. It is impossible to progress in Mathematics without developing a creative imagination. Mathematics, logic and philosophy are three phases of the same fundamental principle. Mathematics is the science upon which most other sciences depend.

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' 1 •J.VM? J I 1 i » » l l r l T U T 0 ?! $ I I T r I t i i i T st l 1 ! l ?l ± J £ T !j i 1 i j ! I. N |3 ! £ ci I i 10 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE T HE College of Agriculture is one of the larger units of the State College of Washington and includes the Depart¬ ments of Agriculture, Engineering, Animal Husbandry, Dairy Husbandry, Farm Crops, Farm Management, Forestry, Horticulture, Plant Pathology, Poultry Husbandry, and Soils. Through these departments it gives in¬ struction and training in all the more impor¬ tant branches in practical and technical agri¬ culture. Students in the College of Agriculture have opportunity to observe the work done at the central experiment station at Pullman, ' both in the laboratories and on the farm. Thus the) gain an insight into the methods used in the search ‘for the truths of nature which underlie practical agriculture. The train¬ ing thus received is well adapted for those who expect to become farmers, farm managers, county agents, club leaders, teachers, agricultural repre¬ sentatives for banks, representatives on farm papers, or dealers in farm im¬ plements and equipment. While more than fifty per cent of the work of the agricultural student is in the College of Agriculture, instruction in the basic sciences and arts constitutes a liberal part of the agricultural course and is provided by the other colleges and schools of the institution. The agricultural student, therefore, gets a well rounded training which fits him not only for the im¬ mediate work which he is to do, but for citizenship in its fullest sense. There are many clubs and organizations such as the Saddle and Sirloin Club, the Horticultural Club, the Dairy Club, the All-Ag Club and the honorary fraternity of Alpha Zeta, through which some of the activities of the students in the College of Agriculture are exercised. Dean Johnson 1 t 1 :• $ i 0 i 10 0 10 0 J} J I 1 0 u 0 vl) j ! 10 0 0 u h f I n u I b 0 j «i C ! Sfe Thirty