AGRICULTURE MEN
NEED JOURNALISM
Call Is for a School of Journalism In
the University Other Schools
Have Them
With the increase of general pub
licity work in all departments of agri
culture, a long felt need of specialized
training in Journalism la brought
forcibly upon us.
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At the present time our university
courses do not offer any special train
ing in journalism. The rhetoric de
partment does not include the distinc
tively formulated necessitits of jour
nalistic study. The students learn to
write interesting and instructive
themes, but this kind of work lacks
the definite instruction which is so
necessary for a writer in specialized
subjects.
The graduates of the Agricultural
College, upon entering the field of
their chosen line of work, find it neces
sary to write a large number of re
ports. Regardless of the nature of the
work followed, whether it be govern
ment work, experiment station work,
teaching, demonstration work, or
farming, they find it necessary to
write a great many reports and
articles.
In addition to the students in agri
culture, who are greatly in need of
specialized training in journalism,
there are students in other colleges
who would be benefited by such train
ing. Graduates in all colleges find it
recesasry to write articles concerning
their work. A specialized course
would help the engineers in present
irife their plans in intelligible writing,
and those students, who expect to be
come sceintists, lawyers, teachers, doc
tors, or business men would find a
training in journalism invaluable in
their work. Then, there are a large
number of students, who have ambi
tions to become newspaper men.
These students would major in jour
nalism if s;ich a course were offered
As it is, they find it difficult to select
the proper courses which will give
them the training they desire.
We need a school of journalism in
our university which will give the stu
dents training along these special
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lines. A journalistic training is a nee -
essary part of an agricultural gradu-
onnir.mAnt Tho envernment em-4on
r.lovo must write the results of his
work, the experiment stations write a
large number of bulletins every year,
and the farmer writes articles for pub
lication. It is aid that the "farm
papers' do more than any other one
thing to bring about better farming
and better living. These papers are
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ii'.lcd with the results of investigations,
experiments and opinions of men who
have specialized In agriculture. So it
is usually the college man, as a spe
cialist, who writes most of the articles.
The efficient man, the man who is
most beneficial to the readers, is the
one who is able to write intelligibly
and clearly.
Other schools have definitely organ
ized courses, which give specific train-
ing in journalism. At Columbia, the
University of Missourifi an excellent
course is outlined for the students.
The department is in charge of a pro
fessional newspaper man.
As our graduates are in competition
with those from other colleges, why
not offer the same advantages to our
students as are offered elsewhere?
Let us give our students the opportu
nity to improve their competency in
writing by offering a specilized course
in journalism.
B. R.
DEPARTMENT OF
HOME ECONOMICS
Has Made Wonderful Advancement
During the Last Few Years
Started in Small Way
The department of home economics
in the'University of Nebraska had its
beginning in the School of Domestic
Science, which was organized thru the
egorts of Miss Rose Bouton, who was
an instructor in chemistry, in the fall
of 1899. Miss Bouton was the sole in
structor of the school. A room was
obtained in Mechanics Arts lian,
where cupboards, table and sink were
installed. To equip the laboratory and
provide supplies, there was an appro
priation of just $1,500. The School of
Domestic Science was at this time a
two years course, open to all univer
sity women. Ten students registered
for the work the first year.
In 190G this course was superseded
by a four year collegiate course under
the name of
the Home Economics
croup. leading to me nacneior in sil
ence degree. In the same year an ap
propriation for the present Home Eco
nomics Hall at the State Farm was se
cured, and in 1&S it was opened for
use. The three j.hases of Home Eeo-
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jnomic work, namely the study of
foods, clothing and shelter, are carried
here. The food laboratories which
at first accommodated 36 students.
have been increased to accommodate
57. The domestic art laboratories
have also been enlarged until tbey
accommodate students, and a house
hold administration laboratory added
which will accommodate 25 students.
The attendance has Increased from
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ten students In 1S99 to n registration
of 1SS in the College, US in the School
or Agriculture and others from the
College of Arts and Science, making
a total of 500 students. The teaching
force has also Increased from one to
twelve people.
The courses offered have multiplied
and new phases of the work have been
udded. The gradual increase of at
tendance is expected and at some
future date graduate courses in Home
Economics will be established.
The girls who have graduated are
carrying on the Home Economics
work, some teaching in High Schools
in Nebraska, others in Extension Ser
vice and many hold positions as house
keepers and home makers.
The number of vocations open to
girls with Home Economic training
has increased and the time will come
when the number of girls who are
training to be dietitions. institute man
agers or to take up other occupations
will be equal to that of those in teach
ers' training courses.
MANY OPPORTUNITIES
IN AGRICULTURE
Profitable and Interesting Work for
Every Agricultural Graduate
Back to the Farm
The opportunities for profitable em
ployment open to the graduate of the
agricultural college cannot be equaled
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in any other field. The overshadow
ing importance of agriculture among
our nation's industries and the grow
ing realization of the necessity for
improved and more businesslike meth
ods in farming operations, make it al
most inevitable that the demand for
men trained in tecnnical agriculture
should be very great.
Our educational system has been
growing steadily more practical for
many years. In accordance with this
tendency, many of our high schools.
j especially in the middle west, hire a
i man with a scientific training in agri
culture to take charge of the instruc
tion in agriculture and manual train
ing. This man is, almost without ex
ception, the highest salaried teacher
on the force, or at least ranks next to
the principal. Here, then, is a broad
field for the arricultural graduate, and
a field that is certain to develop won-
i df rfully in the next few years.
Many counties in our agricultural
states hire a county agricultural agent
or a county farm demonstrator. This
man is furnished with a car (or a
Ford) in which to travel over the
county. The salaries paid range from
$1,200 up to as high as $4,500 a year,
and the work is jet in its infancy.
Practical farm experience, scientific
training and natural qualities of lead
ership are the requirements for such
a position, and the opportunities in
this field are practically unlimited.
Again, there is the agricultural ex
tension service, which all of our agri
cultural colleges and many private
corporations maintain. For instance
our own University, at the present
time, has a corps of over forty agri-
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over the state. And many big corpo
rations, such as the International Har
vester Company and the railroad com-
,,anUw. maintain a force of men
trained in tec hnical agriculture, whose
business it is to encourage ana pro
mote better methods of farming among
the customers or prospective custom
ers of those corporations. The sal-
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aries paid in this line of work average
high and the scope of the work is
rapidly widening.
One of the largest employers of
trained agricultural workers is the
United States Department of Agricul
ture. Hundreds of men are empioyea
by this department, whose purpose it
iu m vntHmpnf rnllprt statistics, aid
in the control of plant and animal dis-
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eases and enemies, do extension work
among the farmers, and. in short, to
do anything which will promote the
agricultural welfare of the nation.
This kind of work calls for a very
large number of the graduates from
our agricultural colleges.
The demand for men competent to
carry on the experimental work at our
college experiment stations openspip
still another important field of activ
ity for agricultural college graduates.
And the teaching forces of our vari
ous agricultural colleges and schools
must of necessity be recruited almost
exclusively from graduates of scien
tific agricultural courses. The experi
ment station staff and the instruc
tional force of the college, then, fur
nish remunerative employment to
those graduates who are fitted for
such work.
In this country, especially since the
'"back to the land" movement has
been so popular, many of our wealthy
city people own farms which they do
not operate themselves. As a rule
they wish their farms to be run in
first-class shape, and are willing to
pay a very comfortable salary to the
man who is able to handle such a job.
So many of our trained agriculturists
make their start in life by managing
somebody else's farm.
And. most important of all, the
graduate of an agricultural college is
well equipped to start up in business
for himself. He can rent land and
Experiment
farm until he accumulates enough
capital to buy a farm of his own. In
this way he will be able to build up a
business that will yield him a com
fortable and certain, although not a
luxurious living.
We have seen that opportunities in
agriculture are very attractive indeed
from the financial point of view, and
the person who is engaged in any of
the various lines of work we have
briefly reviewed can feel that he JR
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reaching benefit to society. The prap.
tical nature of the work makes th0 re
sults achieved more readily apparent
and gives the worker that satisfaction
which comes only from helpful service
completed.
Thus we see that the graduate of
the agricultural college has. from the
sandpolnt both of profit and of enjoy.
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ment, a variety of promising oppor
tunities such as is offered to the grad
uates of no other college in the Uni
versity. S. 11. W.
What is butter fat?
Ans.: Fat produced by a Iior fed
ci. butter.
! What advantages docs country life
I have over city l.fe, Johnny?
ion don t nave to use bathing suits
in the country.
What Is milk fever?
Milk fever is when a cow
clogged up and gets a fever.
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FOOTBALL AT THE
UNI STATE FARM
School of Agriculture Has Completed
'a Very Successful
Season
The School of Agriculture football
team has completed one of the most
successful football seasons in the his
tory of the school.
The fact that their school did not
begin until a month later than the high
schools put them at a great disadvan
tage as to the length of the season,
but even with such a late start the
boys came through with but one de
feat. It was taken at the hands of a
very strong team.
The first game of the season was
won from the Nebraska Military Acad
emy by the decisive score of 13S to 0.
The next game, that played with David
City, was a real battle, but was also
won by a scora of 14 to 3. Then came
Fairbury, and they netted the boys an
other decisive victory with a score of
08 to 0. Next came the Aurora ath
letes, who took home a 0 score and
lift the boys a score of 2, as the result
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of a safety. The last and the hard
est game of the season was played a
Norfolk on Thanksgiving day. There
the boys met a fast team and were
outclassed to some extent, but never
theless fought loyally until the fn
whistle blew ending the game. wj
Norfolk victors by a score of 34 to
On the whole the Aggies played very
good football, and are to be congratu
lated on their showing this season.
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