Democracy's College, 1962 version part 2

pieces of paper on a governor's desk the pledge of a state to its people and four years later in 1862 a bill introduced into Congress by representative Morrill was being laid on the desk of the President of the United States be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled that there be granted to the several states an amount of public land in this act to the endowment support and maintenance of at least one College where the leading object shall be without excluding other scientific and classical studies to teach such branches of learning as a related to agriculture and the mechanic arts in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life the bill fixes the leading objects but properly I think leaves to the state's considerable latitude in carrying off the practical details the college on the Prairie established by the state endowed by the nation was finally ready to open for business the opening of a new institution of learning in a new state is an event of no little significance but scarcely of less interest is the fact that the plan of organization which we have adopted commits it to the promotion of two great educational reforms one of these is the withdrawal of the ancient classics from the place of Honor they have largely held in our educational curricula and the liberal substitution of those branches of Natural Science which underlie the industries of this beautiful state the other is the free admission of young women on equal terms with young men to all the privileges and honors which the institution can bestow to great educational reforms higher education drawn from the problems of life and preparing for the problems of life and a higher education available to all of the people whether rich or poor whether from the farm or the factory the stable or the stock market equality of educational opportunity the new venture was under way I began to tell a students what I knew about farming it didn't take me long to run short of material I might as well look for cranberries in the Rocky Mountains as to look in that library for material to teach agriculture so I fell in the habit of taking students to feel good and poor farms domestic economy is taught to the junior ladies by means both a weekly lectures and actual practice in a well furnished kitchen the lectures embrace such topics as furnishing and care of a home plan of weeks work we're experimenting to determine what results hole corn will produce in cold weather as the pigs become older we will put them on full feet and continue each experiment as many new inquests have come in for farmers Institute's this winter those desires of securing one of these for their County forward to mere request to that effect signed by not less than 50 farmers who pledge their personal attendance and payment of such traveling expenses as maybe normally accrued ask the grasshopper how many legs he has don't just go to the book the book may be wrong grant work which in every case will serve as a special introduction to the greater work that lies in the world outside this college is just turning out to be a place where they hold potatoes and pitch pay and play nursemaid to a bunch of steam engines nursemaid to a bunch of steam engines the early years of the little college weren't always peaceful but it continued to grow as more and more people took advantage of what it had to offer a constantly developing course of study drawing upon life and providing an equal opportunity for all equal opportunity all we desire to do so may take the entire course of military instruction this course embraces the following exercises school of the soldier school of the company military engineering college more effectively promote the agricultural welfare of Iowa than by sending forth each year a band of thoroughly equipped scientific veterinarians to supplant quacks and save life prevent contagious gardening and the second two roads and road making in the former the students make a thorough topographical survey of a piece of ground and the lady's company continues to do good work and provide a pleasant and helpful exercise the work of the veterinary department of the Experiment Station will consist of a study of animal diseases with a view of preventing their ravages the detailed plans for the college waterworks including those of the elevated steel tank the largest in the West it has been commended by the highest engineering authorities and has proven efficient and economical a credit to the College and to the conscientious have been carefully husband and and judiciously expended the new Agricultural Hall is one of the finest it has one of the most commanding locations on the campus and will enable the agriculture play football with an Iowa cyclone is with the Iowa team had met yesterday at the end of 50 minutes play the big husky farmers from Iowa's Agricultural College had rolled up 36 points while the 15-yard line is not a few practical lessons in cooking at the summer Chautauqua but the crowning of a four year course of higher educational and everyday acquaintanceship with the problems of Commerce and Industry as with the duties of life so the experiences of self construction and Studies shops and fields difficult and burdensome at the time now turned you ought to have a county agent in every county you have a county superintendent schools why not a County Superintendent of Agriculture we have been carrying instruction to about 10,000 people a year in the short courses held throughout the state several hundred thousand have been reached by special trained instruction and through County agents records are available to show that the hog cholera serum and virus distributed from the new plant at Iowa State College during 1913 has affected a saving of at least three million dollars to the state there's a growing penalty in favor of teaching by demonstration instead of the purely lecture method as evidenced in the growth of the County agent movement the new varieties of oats Iowa 103 and Iowa 105 continue to be distributed to farmers and with excellent results have been conducted with bituminous surfaces applied to concrete bases and attention has been given to the construction and maintenance of gravel roads the study has included the at this year one of our graduates has been selected as the first county advisor in home economics in the state of Iowa no doubt the demand for trained women for such plant men in the six months cause for auto mechanics these courses are being identified more and more specifically with the industries of the state identified with the industries of the state building with the American Way of life into a technological university new teaching departments new research discoveries new short courses new opportunity for all who were interested and education drawn from life for life an equality of opportunity after four years of experimental broadcasting radio station woi has been reorganized as an official part of the Iowa State College woi will continue to base its programming on a policy of market information good music and adult education for the people of Iowa cooperating with the Navy by technically training v12 aviation deck and engineer candidates as well as training military personnel in steam diesel and electric power and communications course instruction is in the hands of a teaching Corps made up primarily of regular college staff members development of a method for the quantity production of uranium metal an outstanding contribution to the success of the atomic bomb project it is most unusual for an educational institution to be presented an award normally given for excellence in industrial production but this institution did a production job you