Caption: Commencement - 1922
This is a reduced-resolution page image for fast online browsing.
EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:
a dcm< racy must be something more than a producer of food, and the mechanic something besides a hewer of wood and a drawer of water. For they added to the technical provisions of the Ac 1 these significant and prophetic \s rds: "without excluding other scientific and classical Studies." T h e r e and then were planted the seeds of th< m o d e m s t a t e university. N o b o d y b u t a T u r n e r could have added those words or have foreseen their significance It was this provision t h a t developed farming into agriculture, the mechanic irts into nginecring, and knitted them both firmly into the very warp and woof of our advancing civilization. For we Cannot educate the people of an occupation with>ut at the same time developing tin- occupation itself, ind the a d v e n t u r e has taught us as we never realized before the essential import ance of every activity of man in the fabrication of t h a t complex which we like to call outnational life. I So does every educational ideal and purpose that touches the masses of men escape its original boundaries, overleap its logical barriers and overflow into wider domains. So did the educational adventures of our fathers velop into the modern state university through the widening importance of knowledge and the growing mipl' d t y of modern life. \ SHIFT IN THE EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVE Now, the most significant feature of this evolution in education is not the agricultural college, the engineerini college, or even vocational education. It is the shift in tl obji five and the consequent change in the essential features f university outlook and activity. T r a d i tionally, the obj< tive in cdu< fttion had b lu iv iy personal? namely, to endow certain favored ndividuals with a mental equipment which should set ,1 m Lpar t as members of a privileged class distinguish 1 t | cultun i aptitude for government, or other leader ship, in any i vent I'I plague h u m a n i t y . I from the ordinary problems that
| 
