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NOVEMBER, 1931 VOLUME 8, NO. 1 " An Inspiration to Anyone" ........................................................................................ .•: ~~ • '* • ra • • • • • a ra a • • • • • • ra a--.-.--. r• • • a a a mrrraara • • •~ •~•,.,.~.,.,.,.:... ,. .. a a a • a a ra a •~ a a rra • ra .--. ;. ~ ~ . ( ~ ~ . ~ ( ) ~ . ~ ~ We Join in Extending You a Welcome to the ~ ~ ~ ( ( :· Annual Home--Coming at the Utah :· ~ ~ ~ ~ :: State Agricultural College. :: ~ ~ ( ( •( •( ) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ) ( ( ~ ~ ~ Thatcher Bros. 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SERVICE STATIONS ~: ~ ~ •: A . G . Olofson, Logan. Manager •: . ~ ( ~ ~ ) ~.•.•.•~·~•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.,•,.•.•.•.•.•~•,.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•,•.•.•,•.•.~.,•.•~•n•a•a•m•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••s••••~ .,_, -­ ---........ ______ _ NOVEMBER 1931 No. 1 - --------------------- ----- Alumni H ome-Coming By W. D. PORTER Once again football is in the air To the alumni members who pay at the Aggie camp. New blood. their 19 31-3 2 dues, tickets will new spirit and new tactics promise be issued for $ l per seat to the to develop a squad of gridiron Denver U -Utah Aggie game. warriors at the "A", who will Furthermore, the best section in mai<e the sporting publ~c rise to the stadium will be reserved for its feet and applaud. former Agg'ies and their guests. In their appearances thus far in Alumni tickets will be on sale in the I 9 3 1 season, the wearers of the main building on the morning the White and Blue have shown of October 17 and at the stadium the spirit of ' 21 when the Rocky just before the game begins. The Mountain Conference champion­ rebate is worth 50 cents on each ship banner was planted on College ticket and four bits is a half-dollar Hill. these days. Alumni members wherever they Now a word about D. U .-Itis may be, long to come again under only once in an elephant-age that the wings of their fostering mother the Parsons can be persuaded to even though it be just for one day. come over the mountains to combat The alumni officers have held sever­ against the Aggies. Heretofore, al tete-a-tetes regarding the best the Fnmers have looked upon the possible game to designate as a PRESIDENT E. G. PETERSON relationship with .D.U. much the home-coming contest. Although Official Host on Home Coming Day. same as Mohammed looked upon an individual preference could not be secured, it was his mountain ; consequently, few of the immediate thought that the logical game, on that promised to hold family have seen the Parsons in action. the paramount interest of the home-played schedule, D enver university has always figured in the run­ would be the one with the Fighting Parsons of Denver ning right up in the foreground, in Rocky Mountain university, Saturday, October 17. This date has been Conference circles. This year sport dopsters are play­ definitely set for the game of games by the alumni ing her squad up with unusual emphasis. Both D . U. organization and every effort is being made to welcome and the Aggies will have played three games in the sea­ the Aggie famjly back to the stadium to sing in unison. son's program and each team should just about be " Show Me The Scotchman" and "You Ask What reaching its stride. School We Love the Best." Secretary Floyd Davis is being initiated into his Coach Dick Romney and the athletic council new job by making final arrangements with the Logan members are very much concerned about the home-com­ business men and the various organizations 'on the ing. They too are lending their hands to make the campus to stage a welcome-home parade just before the affair a success. This is what they have agreed to do : (Continued on Page 5.) 2 THE UTAH STATE QUARTERLY November, 1931. Beginning and Development of the College By J. W . SANBORN, First President of the College The background obtained from the Legislature. I was granted the privi­ of the organiza­ lege of a trial and received from both branches, a unani­ tion of the Utah mous grant of the sum requested. State Agricultural Purpose of College Misunderstood. College has a dis­ It is noteworthy that the function of the college, tinct relation to to be, was wholly misunderstood. In the political field, the policy persued. Logan was given the school to found what appeared Early in the six­ to be a sort of practice field and barn work, or a very teen th century. my limited function to say the least. The State University ancesstor was in later became anxiously interested and finally permitted stout conflict with one or more members of its faculty, joined ultimately the arbitrary, state· by prominent citizens of Salt Lake City, to show open church and civil hostility. This, however, did not at first appear until authorities of Eng­ the college had grown into prominence and an ill­ land. Without en­ advised movement to unite the University with the couragement from State College at Logan, organized by prominent home. he migra ted m Massachusetts, where he found an citizens of Logan, bred contention. equally intolerant authority, eclessiastical and _civil. He . Far Sightedness of Presidents Stand Manifest. came to New Hampshire where religious convictions The futility of it was apparent, yet my friends were under greater respect. at Logan became very .critical of my pos1t1on . \Vhy Chapel Exercises Were Begun. !bey overlooked the fact· that m y duty was I brought to U rah, and inherited respect for all ·not to Logan but to the state, and that the sincere religious convictions, at bout 1894, when acute policy of the president must be groomed to the pro­ differences existed in Utah in this direction. Accepting bable env:entuality of such a movement. It would have then, as now, Christ's reply to a question, in effect: decentralized the capstone of Utah's educational system "Love the Lord thy God with all thy might mind and and would, in prosecuting the movement, have to con­ strength and thy neighbor as thyself". I respected all tend with the centralized weaith and talent of Salt religions thus based as were those of U tab. I had to Lake City and the greater force of the large body of meet this problem at the start, consulting both the graduates of the University to whom the institution trustees and· church authorities. Neither group had was dear. There was also the hazard of these two formed chapel exercise but neither forbid it. Things powerful forces amending any bill to consolidate the could not go on this way, so, uninvited, and in respect two institutions into one, located, not in one corner of for the Christian homes of the state, I started Chapel ·the state, great in area. but in its center of wealth and exercises with the fixed understanding that neither industrial activity. This had to be and was, met, but Sectarian nor Partisan politics would be tolerated. This it bred the counter movement, union with the Univer­ was never violated. Members of each church of dis­ sity of Utah at Salt Lake City. tinguished public men, joined in making the occasion I was invited to join such a movement by strong both devout and instructive. It is a pleasure to me to friends of the University. Such uriions have occured. know that it is maintained. Careful consideration of all the factors involve.d , re­ I was very much impressed in my last visit to the sulted 'in declining to ally myself with such a move­ college in 1927, with the fine, rugged, respectful type of ment. Later, after my resignation, which had been in students. They are an honor to the college and the state. the hands of the trustees for some time, Utah arrived Finances, Curriculum Greatest Problems. at the same conclusion. Prior to this problem was that of finances and The college at Logan was, in its policies, organized courses of instruction. At that time there existed only in a destinctive field conservant with Federal laws and the extreme South end of the present main building and occupying this distinctive field , not filled by other Sage brush was the only product of the soil.