The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-04-20

ed by the entire faculty which at thai
time consisted of President Gault, ]
e. Ostrander. professor Of engineer
ing, Robert Millikan, professor of ag-
riculture and director of the expert
and Nellie G. Brown, instructors. The
Idaho experiment station was estab-
lished in the very beginning, there
fore, and scientific study of the prob
lens that were beginning to face the
farmers of the new state were not
only taken up at Moscow, but provis-
ions had already been made for sub
stations at Grangeville, at Nampa, and
at Idaho Falls.
Add Law School.
To-day the university is a union Of
numerous colleges all under one
board of regents and under one ex-
ecutive. The college OF law was the
last to be added to the family of col
|
need not 60 to sister states to obtain
course in the legal profession.
Wealth in Grounds.
1.-THE number of acres used by the
| university with all her colleges is
| 317. Much of this ground is devoted
to the college of agriculture and the
experiment station and becomes one
great laboratory where the class room
sciences are completed under Natures
own conditions. The campus alone
has sixty-fve acres devoted to build
ings, athletic grounds, shady drives
and gardens. Not only that but the
state has provided literally from the
beginning for sub-stations in all the
important sections of the state where
problems peculiar to that section may
be solved. The old sub-stations at
Grangeville, at Nampa, and at Idaho
Falls are no longer in existence, but
new stations with better equipment
and better facilities are established
at Clagstone in the north end of the
state; at Caldwell in the southeastern
part of the state; at Aberdeen in the
southwestern part of the state; at
Gooding in the south central part OF
the state; and only recently one at
Jerome for the study of potato ands
sugar beet culture; all Of which make
it possible to adequately cover all
types of soil and climatic conditions
that the state presents.
There are today fourteen buildings
on the campus, and over eighty in
structors giving their time to exper-
imentation and educational work.
There are eight hundred students ac
cepting, without tuition, instruction
at the hands of this institution. Not
only that but each year movable
schools, demonstration trains, and
farmers institutes carry the, message |
of the university to every town and |
village of any size in the state.
The Universities Future.
"Idaho's university is destined to be
one of the big universities in the west.
She has already taken her place in
line with the first institutions as is
evidenced in the report of DR.. K. c.
Babcock which he made a short time
ago to the United State bureau of edu-
cation. Idaho can build no more last
ng or illustrious name for herself
han the one resulting from the up
of one great central institu
ion of higher education. No state in
he past has succeeded in fulfilling
n the most economical manner the
lebt that she owes to the youth of her
tate by scattering her institutions l.,
lere and there over that state. Those
tates that have concentrated their
orces have made it impossible to dup
icate the work and to duplicate the
forces have built up
trong institutions which have become
enters Of power for the entire state
Machinery Idaho is establishing
ig university at Moscow and doing it
aster and more solidly than many Of
he older and richer states II