Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1922-09-22
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A message from President Elmer
G. Peterson, President Of the Utah
Agricultural College to the readers
Of the Iron County Record.
The Utah Agricultural College has
just passed its thirty-third year Of
service to Utah and the Nation. In
all that time it has been a part OF
the life Of our State, working as
best it could to solve the problems
of the farm, the home, and our bust
ness and industrial life.
The main service of the College
has been in the field Of agriculture,
upon which our civilization rests, but
it has. as have all similar agricul-
tural colleges in America, been able
to be of great service in other lines,
in the training of teachers, both
elementary and high school, in the
lines of commerce and business adj
ministration, in home economics and
nursing, in engineering and mechan-
icaf arts, in preparing scientific
workers for government and state
service, and, as in all institutions Of
higher learning, it has developed
strong courses in the subjects which
characterize all education. These
are English and literature, mathe-
matics, languages, the natural and
physical sciences, arts, music, pub
lie speaking, history, sociology,
economics, and related lines, all de-
signed to give its students liberal
and practical education. to quote
from the national law creating the
College.
The College is not only an insti-
tuition where students are taught;
1t is an institution of direct social
and industrial service. Through the
Extension Division and the Expert
ment Station it represents both Ma
ton and State. in solving the pro-
blems of the farm and the home
The College devotes only one-half
of its enegry to teaching students;
the other half is devoted to Exten.
sion and Experiment Station work
In this it differs from many college:
and universities which devote al
their energy to the teaching Of
students.
Through all its work the College
tries to embody what our people
hold to be above all education,-
standards of cleanliness and honor
There can be no worthwhile educa
ton unless it is based upon the OBJ
servance of moral law. Much tina
is now wrong with education is du
to the fact that many educators be
| lieve that men and women need no
develop morally and spiritually a!
they develop mentally. Nothinl
could be more disastrous to us as
nation than TO divorce the moral ant
spiritual from our schools. ven
ture to say that any educational in
stitution so conceived is doing nor
harm than good to those who c1n.
to it. High scholarship is neces
sarily n part of any real college bu
high manhood and womanhood com
first.
During the past two years the Col
lege has been subjected to yer
severe economies due to the pre-
vailing depression, yet it has bee
able to survive this period withou
serious loss. The years ahead ar
years of great promise for our stat
and the West. Conditions alread
are sufficiently improved to indicat
; that although it may be somewhs
slowly, prosperous times are ahea
of us. In this all will share, I'll
College included. 1t is pleasul
to be able to report that the Collee
is in excellent condition, with col
stantly increasing influence for goo
in all other ways. In SCHOLARSHIP
the College now ranks evenly wit
the better institutions of America
We appreciate the support of tn
citizens of the State and hope
~ restore
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