Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-23
Seven of the Educational Insti-
buttons Of Iowa Plan Agri-
cultural Instruction
APPEALS TO SCHOOL. FOR AID.
Experiment TO Be First Tried at simp-
son, Where Students and Instruc-
tors Will Sit in the CIasses-CoI
Ieges Will Aid Agricultural to Reg
ular Course.
pecial to 1'imes-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moincs, Nov. 23.-Seven colleges
Of Iowa have appealed to the authori-
ties of the State Agricultural College
at Ames to come and give them some
instructions as to how to institute
courses in agriculture in their colleges.
The authorities at Ames have agreed
to help out some of them and have all
but completed arrangements to go to
Simpson College at Indianola and take
charge Of the college FOR three or four
days, during which it will be turned
into an agricultural college, in which
the professors as well as the students
will sit in the classes
The movement is one of the most
far reaching the state has ever known
and simply amounts to this, that with
in this year many of the colleges OF
Iowa and within a'few years perhaps,
all of the colleges of Iowa will have
agriculture taught to each class.
Prof. p. &. Holden OF the State
Agricultural College at Ames was in
Des Moines today on his way back to
Anes from Indianola. He had been to
Indianola on the urgent invitation of
the authorities of Simpson College to
assist them in establishing a course in
agriculture there. While at Simpson
it was arranged that some of the pro-
fessors at Ames with Holden at the
head shall go to Simpson at date
yet to be liked and take charge of the
college for three or four days All
the classes of Simpson College will be
dismissed and professors and students
alike VIII join in studying agriculture
The short course given each winter at
Ames or IS much of it as possible. will
be given. Following this the author
tiles of Simpson College propose to
institute regular classes in the funda-
mentals Of agriculture and domestic
science and this course of agriculture
will be followed thru the entire four
years college course.
1t is understood that this is what
each of the seven colleges have asked
for and each proposes TO institute the
course thru the entire four years OF
the college course. These colleges are
among the smaller colleges of the state
but il the matter is IL success with
these. it is considered that 1t will be
but short time till every institution
in the state is teaching agriculture.
The movement is considered by
Prof Holden and other educators as
one of the most important and far
reaching of modern times in educa-
tional matters. The agitation OF back
to the farm and of teaching agricul-
ture in the high schools and public
schools of the state is probably the
beginning of the movement to teach
domestic science and agriculture in all
schools and colleges. it is understood
that the intention is to have the fun
damentals of agriculture taught just
as there are now classes in the other
branches of science, language and
learning generally. Many of the boys
and girls who are attending the vari-
Gus colleges will in future years live
on the farm and will therefore want to
know about farming and domestic SCI
ence on the farm and the colleges OF
the state are arranging to furnish the
opportunity for them to study these
branches.