The San Francisco call., 1913-08-17
Dean Hunt of State Univer-
sity Voices Purpose and
Ambition of Regents
and President
COLLEGE OWES DUTY
TO ENTIRE STATE
Must Render Service to Peo-
pie and Humanity and
Teach Young Men
BY F. j. DYER

I CuiNeISltN OF CatiIOTnlas DelleNeS tldi
1t owes duty to the state at large
that. can. be fully accomplished only
when; IL is engaged to the fullest ex-
tent. in public service"-From the Of
fetal prospectus for 1913.
Service: Is 1t not q good word for a
public institution to emblazon on its
banner?
d. rs there any nobIer aspiration either
IN public or private life than to wish
TO serve ones fellow man? Could a
great university. maintained for and
by. the. people. have a more worthy
keynote than this, just service?
President Benjamin 1de Wheeler, al
the dedication of the new agricultural
q Ia on. November 90, 1912 announced a
new and broader policy a policy mag
nihcently big and fine to square with
the motto of the institution and his
announcement was supplemented by the
statement of the new head of the col
leges.' man OF international reputa-
ton: Tor research and learning Plans
worthy of great men who appreciate
both. their opportunities and their re-
spon%bilities, were those announced at
this dedication. Coming from the lips
OF scientists 1t means something when
they express the intention Of building
IS UP. on the slopes overlooking San Fran
cisco and the Golden gate, the greatest
school for instruction in agriculture
that has ever existed. And 1t Is NOT
for the lust Of boastins that such senti-
ments are voiced
The. authorities Of the University of
California have declared that the eul
,tivation of the soil lies at the foun-
dalton of the wellbeing of the state.
ana in California, they believe they
have such field for agricultural re-
search :
the.public good. as can not be paral-
.leled elsewhere.
A NAME WELL KNOWN
Stress is. laid upon the pIans for 4bis
Inc OF work because, in the words of
PRESIDENT Wheeler. "of all the depart
ments of the university the we'll being
of the state IS most closely interloclxed
WITH the college of agriculture"
90 heEever agricultural students and
scientists are to- be found there ts
known the name of Thomas Forsyth
Hunt' now dean of the college OF agri
culture of the University of California
professor of agriculture and director
OF the agricultural experiment station.
His Idea is 10 build up his department
by securing the best men that can be
had TO make up the strongest possible
faculty. He purposes teaching agricul-
ture in its various branches in a tech
ers and teachers, and also to turn out
practical men and women
with service" as Its watchword If
Is simply astounding to learn how far
reaching the work of the college has
been. Last year the college came into
direct contact with 150, 900 people in
the state of California 1t is taking
learning into the homes and farms and
fields and schoolhouses Of the state 1t
is getting to the people by demonstra-
, ion trains. through farmers Institutes.
movable schools of agriculture, by per-
sonal correspondence and in other
ways. Its plans are big and far reach
ing for the states future, which, it
holds. must rest on the soil and its
Products
SERVICE THE KEYNOTE
@ Service, then, is to be the keynote
Of the institutions; and so novel is this
idea of AN active, interested. jealous,
aggressive service instead of passive,
perhaps reluctant, service that the
temptation persists to repeat and dwell
upon this idea. although others have
had the WILL If not the power. to act
on IT. -
In pursuance of its policy, the uni
versity:is: celebrating its extension
course: in agriculture. Those who can
not avail themselves of It's advantages
by personal attendance can benefit
from correspondence courses. No ef-
forts viii be spared to take the knowl-
edge of those engaged In the work TO
those who need it, for. quoth the pros
pectus. "in the last analysis the sue
cess Of. the commonwealth depends on
the success of the farms
Has 1T occurred. perhaps, = to the
reader that science. has done much for
aericulrure2. Perhaps; and yet. this
Institution of the hopeful spirit and
the omen mind declares that "the
achievements in agricultural science
have done scarcely more than TO sug-
gest the possibilities of future develop
ment" This will make 1t easier to
comprehend the ambition of the men
who are guiding it's destinies TO de-
velop in California. the completest and
richest system of agricultural educa-
ton and research that the world has
yet seen"
UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES
What splendid possibilities these ed
ucators see before theml And they ap-
proach their work with tremendous and
compelling enthusiasm and with an al
truistic desire to benefit their state and
their country-even the whole world
as much as possible.
At the dedication Of the new build
ing. President Wheeler said that it was
intended to 'inaugurate new and far
reaching policy for the organization
and equipment of agricultural educa-
ton" He declared that our problem
in California Is among all the states
as uniquely complicated as 1t lis
uniquely vast" and by way of demon
strating this he said: The variety
of our products of the soil far exceed
that Of any other state. The tilling
of our soil requires for efficiency more
use of special knowledge and of the
results of scientific investigation than
the agricultural, practice of any other
state"
The need of solving the problems
arising is made paramount because OF
the fact that ''the prosperity and sound
ness of the state is chiefly dependent
on the farms and the. farmers" and SO
to be equipped to cope with these big
questions, "the Regents. in fashioning
a. policy which should. assume to- be In
wise commensurate with the need of the
state: have determined first of all to
seek an equipment in men, In making
selection they have looked the country
over; their question has been-not
whom they could get, but whom did
they want, Five such men they have
already appointed to full professor
ships"
TO PROMOTE EFFICIENCY
Chief among these men is he whose
duty it is TO bring the ambitious plans