The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-06-24
DAKOTA FARMER
BOOSTS COLLEGE
WELL KNOWN FARM JOURNAL
HAS DOUSLE PAGE STORY
ABOUT SCHOOL
PICTURES Of BUILDINGS ON COVER
Says State College viii be One Of The
Leading Agricultural Schools
Of Country

That State college is receiving its
deserved recognition by the farm
journals is evidenced by the current
issue of the Dakota Farmer published
page feature story about the college
and its work accompanied by a large
number of illustrations. The cover
illustration of the magazine is made
up of photographs of the finest build
ings on the campus, the administration
building, the armory. ard the ladies'
dOrmitOries. The story is written by
Alfred Wenz, who made a special trip
down here some time ago to gather
material for the article. Under q
special head, "a School and It's Oppor-
tunity," it addresses the farmers of the
state as follows:
This week, w. E. Johnson is being
inaugurated president of the South
Dakota State College of Agriculture
and Mechanic Arts. He started life in
a farm home. Now'i in his maturity he
has been given direction of a farm
school,
The school has many graduates
who are representing it wOrthily. A
large number Of them have gathered
for a homecoming. The event inspires
serious thought on what this college
should and where it is to find its great
est work-on the farms and among
the farmers of South Dakota.
president Johnson is working on
this problem earnestly and effectively.
After all, any educational institution,
from kindergarten to a university
like Harvard and Yale, is largely what
the head Of the school makes it, pro-
vided that head is backed by both the
financial and moral support of the
people. President Johnson has made
a good beginning He needs the finan-
cial and the moral support of the
people Of South Dakota. There is no
doubt but that he will get both these
good things. when the work he is at
tempting to carry on is thoroughly un-
derstOOd.
THE pres dent Of an institution like
the South Dakota State College of Ag
rculture and Mechanic Arts has a
great responsibility and a great Oppor
tunity. SO has the school as a whole
SO have the Legislators whose duty it
is TO make suitable provision for the
maintenance of the institution, which
in an agricultural state like South Da-
kota, is by far the most important
link in the educational system of the
commonwealth.
But the responsibility does not
stop there. 1t extends to the people
themselves, and particularly to the
farmers and to farmers wives and
their sons and daughters. Granted
sufficient maintenance fund, adequate
buildings, a strong president and well
equipped instructors, the South Dakota
State College of Agriculture and Me
chanic Arts will be the institution it
should be-the institution to which
every South Dakotan can point with
pride-only when the boys and girls
from the farms acquire the habit Of
looking forward to the completion Of
their education by course at their
state farm school. The state college
of agriculture, as a South Dakota insti-
tuition deals with South Dakota prob.
lens. 1t can give South Dakota young
people. particularly South DakOt0
young people from the farms, better
education along the lines they most
need, than any other school on earth
If all South Dakotans realize this and
instead of passing the entire burden
up TO President Johnson and his as
sstants, do their individual bit TO
carry on the good work, our Farm
School can easily reach the goal
toward which it is headed-ope of the
leading agricultural colleges of the
country