The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-06-17
INSTALL JOHNSON
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
MANY PROMINENT EDUCATORS
HERE MONDAY FOR THE
INAUGURATION
GIVES SPLENDID INAUGURAL ADDRESS
Saws State College Gives Education
With a Clutch which Gears it
To life's Needs

Some kinds of education are like an
automobile engine, splendid machin-
cry, but having no clutches to connect
them with the machinery of life. Now
the college which | have been called
to serve gives an education which is
a power and which has a clutch that
connects it up with life's needs" said
DR.. Willis Z. Johnson in his inaugural
address, AN Education With a
Clutch" last Monday morning at the
exercises at State college. Doctor
Johnson has been acting president Of
State college for one year perhaps
the most brilliant and successful year
in its history. The fine large class
graduated yesterday stands as con-
create evidence of the unqualified sue
cess which Doctor Johnson has made
as the chief executive of South Da-
kota's agricultural college, college
that gives its students IAN education
with a clutch"
"The education which the land grant
college gives" he added, "has a clutch
isfying lifes needs. Science for sci
ence sake, and art for arts sake may
be all right in the ordinary college but
in the A. and NJ college they exist
for humanity's sake. Here chemistry,
drawing, mathematics, design, botany
sociology, zoology, civics, entomology
and English are tools with which bet
ter to do life's work, not simply TO
ornament and garnish life's unem.
ployed moments"
DR.. Johnson then took up in detail
a discussion of the vocational depart
ments of the college In his discus
sion of agriculture he showed how i'm.
portant agriculture has become and
sketched the improvement of agricul
ture which may be traced to the agri
cultural colleges and the department
of agriculture. He stressed the im
portance of the farm bureau as the
greatest business organization Of farm
ers today.
while the legislature has g;ver
very small appropriations for expert
mentatiOn the federal appropriations
have made it possible for South Dako
ia State College to carry on some out
standing experiment in many phases
of agriculture. For this statement
call to witness the many new fruit
and other products in horticulture pro
duced here. the work with cereals
such as the development Of a new
strain of wheat, probably the best
durum wheat grown in the state, 6
world record increase in the sug@l
content of sugar beets, the develop
ment of one of the best strains o.
dairy cattle in the world, and the out
standing developments in the study
of rationing for beef cattle and swine
the Introduction Of an especially Valu
able type Of sheep and of alfalfa
these are only a few of the achieve
ments of State college which have
given South Dakota international rec
ognition.
South Dakota, in spite of the fac
that agriculture is her overwhelmingly
predominant industry, maintains three
colleges of engineering. The Oldes
and strongest Of these is the one a
State college. There are many rea
sons why this is the case. Farmin;
is constantly requiring the use Of more
and moro machinery. The need 70
tractor and auto mechanics is rapid,
increasing The redemption Of ricl
lands by drainage in this state ha
lust begun The state has one Of tn
best highway laws in the union, re
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