Washington State University - Chinook Yearbook (Pullman, WA)

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Faculty Administration W. A. RITZ, J. H. HULBERT, F. J. WILMER, E. O. HOLLAND, WALTER R. ROWE ARTHUR W. DAVIS, The Board of Regents npHE personnel of the Board of Regents consists of men prominent in the state who are interested in education in general and the State College of Washington in particular. Each member of the board is appointed by the governor of the state of Washington and is chosen from among well-known business and professional men. The duties of the board consist in the administration of the State College of Washington. All questions concerning the policy of the college come under its management; all financial and executive problems important in the progress of the institution are taken care of by the Board. This year, as in the years past, a number of difficult executive ques¬ tions have been ably worked out. Members of the Board are: J. H. HULBERT, Mount Vernon President Arthur W. Davis, Spokane Vice President W. A. RlTZ— ...Walla Walla R J. WlLMEft Rosalia W. R. Rowe - - Naches

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Pa gc 1 9 J Faculty Administration W E HAVE increasing evi¬ dence that college men and women of today appreciate their opportunities and respon¬ sibilities. Despite rumor to the contrary, I am sure that there is less misbehavior and less fool¬ ishness among college students today than there has been at any time during the last quar¬ ter of a century. Last fall, without undue pressure by the faculty, the sophomore class of 750 students and the freshman class of 1200, agreed to eliminate the “bush¬ whacking and disorder attend¬ ing their former plan of carry¬ ing on a mild type of rowdyism for a week or two, and, in some cases, for a month or six weeks, in the fall. Furthermore, the scholarship of hundreds of freshmen and sophomores in the last two or three years was seriously af¬ fected by this campus warfare. I wish to offer my congratula¬ tions to the freshman and soph¬ omore leaders for the fine way in which they have handled their “supremacy” contests, supported the football and other varsity teams, and carried on their college work. These are real achievements. We have a spirit of coopera¬ tion in evidence on the W. S. C. campus. There is good will, team-work, a happy attitude toward life, and an earnest de¬ sire to make the most of the opportunities offered by college training. The commendable spirit of the freshmen and sophomores is a definite reflection of the spirit of cooperation and good will found in the leading men and women on the campus. I am proud of the “hello spirit at W. S. C. A student is not hon¬ ored simply because he has money; and he is not looked down upon because he must work his way through college. Young men and women here are rated largely upon their scholarship, and their individ¬ ual worth as college citizens. Graduates of the State Col¬ lege of Washington are filling important positions in indus¬ trial and vocational life and in the leadership of the North¬ west. The final test of this in¬ stitution, supported by federal and state funds, is the conduct and the success of graduates who go out and take their places in life.

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Page 2 I Faculty Administration Osmar L. Weller V ice- President D R. O. L. WALLER affiliated himself with the State College in 1893 as Professor of Mathematics and Civil Engineering, taking the Vice-Presidency in 1909. He received his Ph. D. and Ph. M. degrees from Hillsdale College and studied Law at the University of Michigan. In June of 1929 he received an LL.D. degree from Washington State College. A study of the history leading up to the founding of land-grant colleges, of which the State College is one, shows conclusively that the old universities were not meeting the scientific needs of the great industries, and that after half a cen¬ tury of debate, propaganda, and memorials the land-grant act was passed by Congress providing scientific and applied scientific education for the industrial classes. Until the passage of the land-grant act, applied science had poor stan d¬ ing in the field of education. This legislation has placed applied science, in the form of agriculture and engineering, upon a level with the other professions. Under the new education, industrial classes came to believe that education applied to their life’s work was as much their right as it was the right of the favored professional class. They insisted that science should be put into work¬ ing clothes and be made to help solve the prevailing industrial problems. In Europe science was compelled to go to work in the eighteenth century. Not until after the land-grant colleges came into existence in the nineteenth cen¬ tury were the sciences compelled to earn their living in America. The State College of Washington was organized in 1890 under the land- grant act, and since that time has graduated many hundred students trained in applied science. Many of them are actively employed in the world ' s work. Their training has made them useful and valuable citizens.