Iowa TV Schooltime : Landmarks in Iowa History - Ames Part 3

stories in the background there is the east half of the stadium Clyde Williams field named in honor of a famous Big Ten Champion who was director of athletics at Iowa State for many years this is the scene of the cyclone triumphs there's the water tower again the building there is the military science building and in the background you see the studios of wo AI TV with the dish up in the air there that sends the program's off to the transmitter across the drive there are the tennis courts there is the electrical engineering building one of the newer buildings on the campus and there is the armory where many exciting basketball games have been played and we're sweeping across little Siberia which is so called because the north wind cuts across this drill field and practice field in the winter here is the transmitter of woi TV on the swine farm about 3 miles southwest of Ames tower 475 feet high and this tower is now broadcasting its own picture it isn't very often that a transmitter does that and I hope my good friend Chauncey Hoover who is the transmitter engineer it was very careful to get a good picture on the air of the transmitter now let me show you a few pictures of some landmarks here on the campus first of all I'd like to show you a view of the only college Cemetery in the United States Iowa State College has the only Cemetery on its own on the campus and this is the memorial stone erected in honor of the first president of Iowa State College the marker over the grave of president Welsh and mrs. Welsh here is the oldest classroom building on the campus still standing this is morrill hall named after the man who introduced the morrill land-grant bill in Congress houses offices of the extension division here is bid sure Hall the main building the executive building of the college as the office of the president and the business manager and other important officials of the college notice what a big building this is there is a student walking past it this is the size of the student notice how much bigger the building is I suppose these four columns here could be used to represent the four years of college in the library there is another important historic landmark this was painted by Grant Wood famous Iowa regional painter and it represents early farming in Iowa notice the distinctive costumes of the farmer and his wife horses are dressed pretty much as they are now notice the farmer is taking a drink out of a jug that may remind some of you of the program we had on low or jug town maybe that judge came from jug town this is on the lower floor of the Iowa State College Library a mural on the wall there and as you go to the second floor of the library you have to go up these steps and flanking this opening our two statues by christian petersen a boy and a girl studying and this flight of stairs goes on up to the second floor to the reading room all over the iowa state college campus you will find these beautiful statues created by kristen peterson who is on the staff of iowa state college and on the staircase going up to the reading room in the library you will see these murals by Grant Wood and his students these represent various areas of the college here is Home Economics cookery dressmaking there is chemical engineering ceramics and mechanical engineering and on the opposite side there are other pictures about other areas of college activity dr. dryer I'd like to have you tell the boys and girls a little more about this land grant college my understanding is that Iowa State College is the only land grant college in Iowa that's correct Alvin President Lincoln signed the Morrill Act in 1862 one provision of the Act was that a certain amount of land which the federal government owned at that time which amounted to about 20 it was 20,000 acres per senator representative that the that state had and in within two years the state had to accept this grant of land and the funds from that land were to be used as an endowment thing for the college and this grant this land was not necessarily an aisle no not necessarily in Iowa but it was land belonging to the federal government and the land or they call it script or was presented to the state and iowa i was meeting in general assembly in 1862 and so immediately they accepted the Morrill Act and there was some discussion as to whether the land grant school should be at Iowa State College near aims or whether it should be at the Iowa State University but it was decided that the state college at Ames had more agricultural area it was a farm in fact already and since the act was designated to to expand training in agricultural and mechanics and it's allied fields it was given to Iowa State College now the University of Iowa at iowa city does not have any work in agriculture no it specializes in the fire-training particularly in the fields of pharmacy and medicine lawyers are trained there that's the work of the state university liberal arts in those fine areas and all the State Teachers College in Cedar Falls is still in another area which is not occupied by either the University or Iowa State College that's right the state of Iowa created these three institutions in Iowa State Teachers College was created last to prepare the teachers for the public schools of the state of Iowa and it has its unique function then in the preparation of teachers administrators for the school's dr. dryer as a former student of Iowa State College would you tell the boys and girls the meaning of the word Visa Visa Visa stands for the five divisions of the college the V for veterinary science the e for engineering the is for industrial science the Aichi for Home Economics and a for agriculture I'm sorry you have the five divisions of the Iowa State College in V show thank you dr. dryer I'm sure you boys and girls have attended visha and if you haven't I hope you will as soon as far as soon as possible because this is a a marvelous festival that is held every year on the Iowa State College campus and it gives you an opportunity to see what is being done at Iowa State and also gives you an opportunity to have a wonderful time so be sure to attend beesha whenever you can now let's take a moment for review dr. dryer told you that at the time the legislature considered establishing Iowa State College in Ames there was just this area in this particular part of the state it wasn't too particularly suited for a farm it had to be filled up and trees had to be planted so this could be the beginning of Iowa State College filling the land planting trees and so on then the people decided that in order to have a school of agriculture it would be necessary to have people who knew about agriculture and who had had special training in it as a science and so the first members of the faculty including President Welsh himself came from the south where there had been large plantations and where the people knew something about the problems of farming on a large scale so when we turn this over we get a picture of a southern planter of the kind that came to Iowa State College in the early years to serve as the first professors how much time we got left Sam a half minute well I don't think that's long enough for another drawing so I'll just tell you that next week we are going to continue our study of the mechanical pioneers in Iowa we talked about the College of Agriculture and mechanic arts today next week we are going to freely where the first gasoline tractor was invented so I hope you'll be with me next week at Frehley and we'll have some pictures and some scenes and landmarks of the first gasoline tractor until then goodbye today your teachers have been her take and William Dreyer of Iowa State Teachers College landmarks in Iowa history is produced for I over TV school time by w/o by TV an association with Iowa State Teachers College TV school time is presented daily Monday through Friday at one-thirty p.m. by the Iowa joint committee for Educational Television you