Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-06-12
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TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY
OF NORTH DAKOTA
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
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The commencement held on June
IS marked the Twentieth anniversary
of the North Dakota Agricultural col
lege. The commencement address
was delivered by Dr. J. H. Worst, pres
ident of the college.
Fellow are some of the statements
made:
Historically, it is customary to &C.
cept agriculture as the Oldest and
most useful of human arts. Begin
ming with the Garden of Eden, it has
sustained the human race during all
it's wanderings and vicissitudes in its
descent as well as its upward move
ment and struggle to place agricul-
ture at the head of the arts, which
has certainly the advantage of all
others as we'll with regard to it's an
tiquity as to its utility"
Honored by the Ancients.
The Romans and the Grecians prac'
ticed with delight and honor this most
ancient and useful among arts. Mayo,
Cathagonian General, wrote TWEEN.
ty-eight volumes extolling the hand
ling of the plow and sowing and con-
quering the land when Carthage was
in her prime. Among the Grecians
Cato, Varo and Columella wrote elo-
quently of that period when agricul-
ture was held in highest esteem by
the ancient world and was honorably
practiced by the most renowned cit
liens of Greece and Rome. Princes
did not consider it beneath their
birth or rank to be husbandmen and
to leave posterity "precepts upon ag-
riculture" and 80 sensible were
they of the utility and value" Roman
senator's lived almost continually in
the open country and gloried in the
art of husbandry during the period
that sheds fairest lustre upon the
Roman republic.
The Importance of Agriculture.
1t has been we'll said that no ma
ion can permanently survive the neg
|ect or subordination of it's agriculture.
Thus, though agriculture was once de-
,lared to be the most grateful amuse-
nent of princes and most powerful
Kings and was considered a wise and
Happy state which inclines a man to
Justice, temperance, sobriety, SINGER
ty, and in word "every virtue, it
vas determined to pass through an
'rdeal or social ostraclsm extending
through twenty centuries, and nat
rally meanwhile it rendered a more
service to humanity than
III other arts and vocations combined,
md though branded with contempt
t has survived while the nations that |
in are but fading memories.
Trained Labor.
Manifestly the century upon whose |
threshold we now stand must rely |
more and more upon the higher eff
iency into which labor can be trained |
or the productive vocations. chief of |
which are engineering and agricul-
ure, and as the soil is the greatest |
ingle factor upon which our civiliza- |
ion depends. for its efficient manage
nent we must invoke the best that
cience has discovered and stand !
eady to adopt all that science has |
discovered and stand ready to adopt !
IL that science may yet disclose.
A New View Of Education.
1t has been said that "Education
nee meant the alienation from the
truggle and separation from the vul-
ar crowd" EDUCATION now means a
for the struggle for the /
with the crowd.
Education for Efficiency.
It has been we'll said that in an
gricultural state agriculture should
'e made as much a part of it's ed
lcation as oxygen is a part of the air
md that education is most vital that
repares the largest number of people
o efficiently perform the ordinary
ervices required by the community
nd to enable them to live the best
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