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Vol. XVI OCTOBER HOMECOMING ISSUE No. I Write Pzejflen.t'j Ouuice jo-t c?a.ta./o-fue Obtain a College Educatio11 at Horne Through the Utah State Agricultural College CORRESPONOENCE -STLIDY DEPARTMENT LOGAN, UTAH AllntJt'f-b~a'l t?oa'l~tJ~ 0-bbtJ'lfld t~ _gtadflnt~ Al~t ln J<fl~ldtJncfl Utah .s'tatfl $2aattfltfy Published quarterly by the Utah State Agricultural Robert L . Judd, ' 09, College Alumni Association. Entered as second class Salt Lake City, was re­ matter at the post offi ce in Logan, Utah, under the act elected president of the of March 3, 1897. A I u m n i Association b y unanimous vote at the an­ nual spring meeting of the Vol. XVI October, 1938 No. I Alumni coun cil, held June 6. Mr. Judd has served as a member of the Utah Officers of the Association State Legislature, a mem­ ber of the Board of Re­ ERWIN CLEME T '37 Editor and Manager gents of the College, and R OBERT L. J UDD, '09 . President for more than twenty-one ERWI CLEME T Executive Secretary years has been an active member of the Alumni Executive Committee Association. He is a most effe ctive and active friend R OBERT L. J UDD, '09 AsA B uLLEN, '10 and booster of the Col­ D AV ID G. H URREN, '27 E LMO M ORGAN, '35 lege. L LOYD M . THEURER, ' 28 H AROLD M . P ETERSO ' '27 Others elected by the council to serve on the Ex- Robert L. Judd Alumni Council Members ecutive committee for one EDMU D CRAWFORD, '04 J. KARL WooD, '15 year include: ROBERT L . J u DD , '09 ORVILLE L. LEE, '10 David G. Hurren, '27, Hyde Park. Mr. Hurren has H EBER B ENNION, '13 AsA B uLLEN, '10 served on the committee one year. During his under­ graduate days at the College, Dave played football and E THEL B. L UND, '24 L. R. H UMPH REYS, '12 E LMO R . MORGAN, '35 was active in student-body affairs. After graduating from D. A . SKEEN, '09 D AVID G . H URR EN, '27 Utah State in '27, he attended Stanford. There, he studied v. D . G ARD NER, '22 D AVTD H. CALDER, '30 business administration, after which he worked near Sac­ H AROLD M. P ETERSON, '27 J. w. THOR 'TO , '17 ramento for a large company as a field representative. Tiring of this, he returned to Utah and took up farming. Harold M. Petersen, '27, Logan. Mr. Petersen is head Alumni Council Members Ex-Officio of. the biology and vocational agricultural departments L LOYD M . T HEURER, '28 B . L. RICH ARDS, '13 in Logan city schools. While a student at the College, he J. w. KIRKBRIDE, '19 A . E . SMITH, '18 was active in athletics, dramatics, debating, and music. M . c. H ARRIS, '08 R ULO W ALKER, '31 Asa Bullen, '10, Logan. Mr. Bullen is a practicing at­ R . 0 . P o RTER, '12 torney in Logan, and lecturer in commercial law at the A. P . ARN ICK, '14 V ERE L. MARTINEAU, '12 w College. As a student, he majored in the school of Com­ G EORGE R . HILL, JR., '08 H UGH C. D AV IS, '27 merce and was active in debating. Mr. Bullen attended M o NT H ARMO N, '36 L. H. GRIFFIN, '27 the Harvard School of Law upon graduation from Utah GRANT CALDER, '35 WILLIAM P ETERSON, '99 State. Elmo Morgan, '35, Salt Lake City. Mr. Morgan is Committee Chairmen now employed in the State Engineering department. While at Utah State, he was student-body president, ma­ BoYD H. P ULLEY . Organization jored in the school of Engineering and was a member of VERE MARTINEAU . Endowment Fund L. Phi Kappa Phi. RoBERT J u DD . Legislative L. Lloyd M. Theurer, '28, Logan. Mr. Theurer, clerk of H AROLD M. P ETERSO . Alumni Membership the Cache County school board, was named an Ex-officio LLOYD M. T HEURER . Relationship member of the committee. He has served as president of D AVID G. H URREN . Athletic the Association for two years and a member of the com­ J. KIRK BRIDE Student Loan Fund w. mittee for three years. Chapter to Enter Floats Alumni chapters in Utah and Idaho are preparing floats to be entered in the Homecoming day parade, Oc­ tober 22. From all indications this year's parade will be longer and more attractive than any Homecoming parade ever held in Logan. Better Clothes for All Cover illustration Occasions "Old Main-Tower" by E VERETT THORPE Three gflml-eflntrmnlal 7'o-u.nt:lfl'Cl tJa!l President Champ Explains Importance Governor Discusses Yesterday, of Occasion Today and Tomorrow "In meeting here to honor the founders of this insti- _..,....., _________ tution," began President F. P. Champ of the Board of Governor Henry Trustees, in his address of welcome, "it is appropriate H. Blood then step· that we should not only review again the inception of the ped before the vast college as one unit of the great system of American Land- audience and said: Grant Colleges, but also, lest we lose sight of the ideals "We are here today and purposes of the founders, that we consider from the to rejoice with the record again the practical educational aspirations of a College, with its olli­ self-governing people to which this institution has been cials and its Alum­ dedicated, and, that we accept the opportunity afforded ni ; and its student by this occasion to body, and its friends. render a brief ac- We may per haps counting of our congratulate it on stewardship in ad- having attained ma­ vancing the princi- turity. But its prime pies laid down by of life and it zenith those men and wo- of accomplishment men who had the are still ahead. In vision to create and the past few years it the ability to main- has enjoyed, prob­ tain such an educa- ably, the greatest tiona! enterprise. growth in its his- " It is a significant tory. It is not yet GOVERNOR BLOOD fact that the act of entirely free from " The College has a proud record the territorial legis- g r o w i n g p a i n s, of past performance" lature accepting the which mark its urge terms of the ~o- for further expan- called Morrill Act sion. It still has important and pressing needs. But it of the Federal Con- is already a peer in the ranks of the great educational gress, which estab- institutions of America. lished the Land- " It would be a pleasure here to record the names of Grant College sys- those who owe so much to this institution and who have tern, grew out of the attained high positions in this state and in other states F. P. CHAMP thought of that out- because of what they received here; many of whom have President of the Board of Trustees standing Utah pio- achieved renown in the councils and activities of the neer and leader, An- nation. I resist the temptation to name some of these thon H. Lund, who aspired to establish in Utah a higher for fear I might unwittingly omit others. educational institution with a rural viewpoint comparable "Professor Roylance, in 1900, wrote an historical to the agricultural schools of his native land and com- sketch of education in Utah. He pointed to the similarity bining the pursuit of a practical education with the cui- between the Puritan town settlement in New England and tural development of the individual and the rural home. the towns of early Utah. The population of this state, he "Inasmuch as the curriculum of any College is con- finds, is neither urban nor rural, but something of each. trolling factor in the scope and usefulness of its service This fact probably had some bearing on the demand for to the public, I should like to refer briefly to the history an agricultural college in Utah in the last quarter of the of the curriculum of this College, disclosing as it does last century. in its early development a struggle against a tendency to " It is clear that educational standards, both of facul­ restrict it to a narrow conception of service in its field ty and of courses offered at the College, were steadily and and contrary to the expressed opinion of Justin S. Mor- consistently advanced. That, of course, is the history of rill, author of the original Federal Act, who said: 'It many institutions of higher education, especially in pio­ would be a mistake to suppose it was intended that every neering states and times. Since 1926 the Utah State Agri­ student should become either a farmer or a mechanic cultural College has been a member of the Association when the design comprehended not only instruction to A U those who hold the plow or follow a trade; but such of merican niversities, which means that staff, plant instruction as any person might need, "with the world all and college training must meet exacting requirements.