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Caption: Course Catalog - 1898-1899
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134 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AGNES S. COOK, A.B., Rhetoric. M. B. HAMMOND, P H . D . , Economics. NEIL C. BROOKS, P H . D . , German. CHARLES W. YOUNG, M.S., Botany. ALBERT R. CURTISS, Woodworking. HENRY JONES, Blacksmith. AIMS AND SCOPE The College of Agriculture aims at the higher education of the rural people and their elevation both in a business and in a social sense. It believes that civilization is the fruit of labor as well as of thought; that thought is most healthy in an active body, and that in the future, as in the past, development will come largely through those who intelligently labor. It believes that every man needs two educations; one that is technical, to fit him for business, another that is cultural, to fit him to live; one to make him efficient and independent as to means of support, the other to develop and to train his better faculties; one to insure comfortable existence, the other to make the most of that existence. This College attempts to secure both of these for the young land owner, believing that neglect of one leads to incompetency and distress, while the want of the other dwarfs the individual and prevents his greatest usefulness. In other words, it seeks to provide that education which will best serve the needs of a rural people living in a cultured nation and under a free government. The strictly technical portion constitutes about one-third of the course. The aim is not so much to develop and teach rules of practice as to discover the principles and to establish the laws of agricultural science. Of the remaining twothirds of the course more than half is prescribed in the sciences. This is done both for their own sake and to fortify the technical work of the course. Because of this and because the subject-matter and the methods of the technical portion lie so fully within the domain of science, the course
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