The Utah State Quarterly, Vol. 11 No. 3, February 1935

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UTAH STATE QUARTERLY Published quarterly by the Utah State Agricultural College Alumni Association. Entered as second class matter at the post office in Logan. Utah, under the act of March 3, 1897.

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PRESIDENT~s It i doubtful if any in titu· tion in America of college grade has made as rapid growth as the Utah State Agricultural College over the past decade. There are tho e no doubt with tremendou enrollments which have added more stud en ts numerically to their roll than the local institution, but a careful study has fail d to disclose any institution which ha recorded as large percentag ~ai n s . The total registration of the present year will unquestionably exceed the 2400 mark. At th e time of writing the cumulative total ha exceeded 2350 and additional registra· tions for the winter and spring CJUarter will add more than a hundr d students All of these students are of regular colJ egiate standing and are puTsuing work toward a deO'ree. In 1919-1920 the number of regularly enrolled college students wa 665. It was not until 1926-27 that the num]Jer of college tudent exceeded one thouand. Since that time the increa e has been continual and exceedingly rapid. The College i now comparable in size with Rutgers, Princeton , Oregon State College, the University of Ore· gon, and th University of Idaho. It is only a littl e mailer Lhan Washington State College and many leading state univer· sities.

Thi s comparatively gradual and steady increase indicates that the growth is not of a mushroom variety. It i easily posible to an wer the questions concerning it causes . In the first place there are many more hi gh chool graduates in Utah than formerly. Furthermore an

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increasing number of these eligible college students are beginning to realize the vital necessity of college training in the present complex economic world.

The remarkable success of the graduates of the College has been an important contributing factor in drawing students to Logan. Dr. A. E. Winshjp, one of America's great educators·, remarked a few years ago that the college has produced more leaders in its field than any o t h e r institution in western America. The inevitable conclusion i that the College doe high quality of work. A cap· able staff, which itself has had the finest kind of training, has done unusually good work. A further reason is that the college

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in its curriculum has made strenuous efforts to keep abreast of modern movements in the economic and political world.

The creation of the School of Forestry, the only one within a radius of five hundred miles, i an example. Following the same evolutionary policy the Institution has recently created a new department of Wild Life Management. The preservation and increase of wild life in the United States will be one of the great projects of the future, in fact it is already extremely important. The new activities of government in the agricultural and sociological fields· make the training of men and women for such government service highly necessary. The College is recognizing these trends in its curriculum. Two further reasons may he mentioned. Logan is an ide~l college community with unusually high moral standards' and institutional authorities have made a valiant and successful effort to maintain a corresponding moral atmosphere at the College. The people of the State have apreciated this institutional interest in their ideals. At the same time it has been possible for a number of reasons to attend the College at an extremely low cost. Every effort has been made by the administration to keep student costs at a minimum in order that no deserving stu· dent be deprived of the right to a college education. Logan citizens have cooperated in the same direction, and the result has· been that students have attended college for four years and received their degrees for an amazingly small sum.

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Portrait by CourteJ')' o/ Ev erett Thorpe.

I hope that as life goes on I may be with this Alumni. And I have said, and believe, and bear witness to you, that I will be going down that long, long trail in another and better world, with you. _ -Anthony W. Ivins.

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Utah State Quarterly Anthony W. Ivins B y Preside n t E. G. Pete r s on '0 4 President Ivins has been known to many of u at the Utah State Agricultural College over the long period of his service of leadership at that Institution.

We know him as a sound thinker, a scholar at heart, whose methods of reasoning were those of all good intellects. He had a profound respect for science, which is tmth as he and all capable thinkers know it to be. He distinguished as do all tme cientists between established fact and hypothesis or theory and felt deeply, his utterances frequently revealed, that there was grave danger in teaching as truth what was not yet established, especially if uch theory was in contravention of the spiritual concepts and the moralities of our race. He once said that scientist could not make discoveries too fast to suit him. The e discoveries, evidences of man's conquest of the earth, he compounded into his vast and rich understanding. He himself, although without formal training in high school or college wa , because of the constant reading of good books, an unusually keen power of observation, and because of his wide experience with men and affairs, a man of profound learning in varied fields.

We knew him as a successful husbandman, a man who represented in his life and thinking those attributes of faithfulness and integrity which characterize the great tillers of the soil and breeders of live stock. He loved the wind and weather and was a devoted tudent of nature. The sanctifying influence of toil and of reliance upon the earth was with him since hi early youth. Farmers recognized him as one of them, a leader who looked beyond the dmdgery of the day's work to the fineness which may characterize man's cooperation with nature in the creative processes of plant and animal life.

We knew him as a friend so precious to us that we seldom speak of it. Long after the many things

he has done have been forgotten we will remember his friendship and we will not forget that the price of such friendship is fidelity to the same great motive which actuated his life.

President Ivins loved justice with a deep and abiding love. No circumstance was too trivial or too large to arouse his deep interest and receive his support if the ends of justice were to be served.

As he loved tmth he despised evil and much of his great life is a record of combat against evil in whatever form it appeared and in whomever it appeared, associate or stranger it made no difference. He was champion always of the poor and down-trodden in every worthy aspiration of their lives. Politically, without respect to party, he wielded a strong influence in making cleaner and more just the processes of government and thus increasing the opportunities for happiness and well-being of everyone within the wide radius of his influence.

He has said good-bye to our boys as they went away to war and on this occasion his patriotism was a beautiful thing to behold. His patriotism was loyalty to tmth, as he visioned his country a possible embodiment of Christian ideals, the nation of destiny which is some day to bring justice and then peace to the world.

But in the College halls which he loved and among the youth whose stmggles he understood and whose laughter he once said was music to his ears, he will live longest because of the testimony of the Savior of the world which he has left us as a priceless heritage. Confident as he was of his own existence he was confident of the great meaning which Jesus of Nazareth gave to life. This faith refined his strength and made complete his dedication to personal virtue, to honor and to justice.

None of us will ever know a more righteous man.

The Annual Alumni Banquet and Reunion held last June in connection with the 1934 Commencement afforded President A. W. Ivins his only opportunity to express publicly his appreciation for the honorary LL. D. degree bestowed upon him by the college. The address is published in the Quarterly with the consent of President Ivins.

After this introduction, I feel more embarrassed than before. I have been embarrassed all day. As I drove up from home this evening I found myself unconsciously humming, "Home on the Range," and when we reached the building from the outside we could hear them singing, "There's a Long, Long Trail."

It took me back to my early life, and I remembered the long winding trail which I have followed during the eighty-two years that I have lived. ¡ Fifty-eight years ago today I was traveling through the White Mountains in Arizona with four other men. The country was infested with Apaches who were on the warpath at the time, and constant vigilance and care were necessary. I was mighty glad when we reached the north side of those mountains among Indians who were more friendly.

I think as I look back, it has been a long, long trail, this life of mine, but always leading me toward the land of my dreams. It has been a long, long night of waiting, but I find my dreams coming true, and I am still walking down this Long, long trail with you, you who are present tonight.

John D. Baldwin in his book, "Ancient America," tells us that Columbus came late, and another thing that he says is that America grew up alone.

I thought when I read it of the parallel in my own life. I have come very late into College, as Columbus came late to America. On the other hand I am not late, because I think that no other person has been admitted to this society at my age, so that I am the first as well as the last.

There is still a long trail before us, all of us; and it is not as distinctly and well defined as some might wish it to be, and yet, as I have always done, I and other men still look hopefully forward and expect a better and happier life. In future years I expect to be walking down that long trail with you good people who are present tonight; and in the

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life to come that is my aspiration, my hope, my desire.

I want to say that while my life has been spent very much alone, I have had since that fifty-eight years ago-and it was soon after that that I was married-a companion with me who has followed these devious ways and hardships without complaint. I just want to say to you young men here: You will never know what real life is until you have such a wife to go with you as you travel down the path of life.

I have been wondering since I came in, which of all my accomplishments and different vocation from which I have graduated have entitled me to the honor which has come to me today. I know that among them I am a graduate cook and dishwasher.

On this long trail among the Indians, there were nine months that we did not sleep in a bed, so far as I remember, that was not carried on a horse. I was never sheltered by a tent during the winter. ¡ And during that period of time, I prepared food for the party, one of whom was the late J. Z. Stewart of Logan. The food, while perhaps not always prepared according to the most modern method in domestic science, served its purpose very well. I am sure that some of you here tonight would have enjoyed the venison steak as I often broiled it, or the good trout that I had caught and fri ed, had you been there. I think I could have won your admiration for my cooking.

I graduated as a tailor also on that trip. My trousers were worn out, and there wa no way to obtain others. I took a canvas pack cover that we had, spread it out on the ground, ripped up the old trousers and laid them on the canvas, and with my knife cut out a pattern, then sewed it together, and it made a very serviceable pair of trousers.

When I recall that kind of tailoring I am reminded of the story of the young mother, who for

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the first time made a pair of trousers for her little boy. The neighbor asked her how she got along with it, and she replied that there was one thing that she didn't like. When she saw Johnny coming down the street, she couldn't tell whether he was coming home or going the other way.

I have, among other things which I have just named, been a great traveler. I have been with Bartlett and Peary to the North Pole, with Scott and those who were with him to the South Pole, and again with Amundsen and Byrd to the same place. I have been around Cape Horn with Magellan, and around the Cape of Good Hope with that wonderful navigator Vasco De Gama. I have been over the long Labrador trail with Dillon Wallace, up the Amazon and down the Orinoco with Casper Whitney. I have been through the intermountain country with Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, and others of the explorers who have left history behind them.

I have been in every country in the world. I have sailed on its seas and down its rivers. I have become acquainted with the politics, in a way, of all countries. All of this I have done in books.

I was always too busy to go far from my home and hadn't the money to go with had I so desired.

I have shod enough horses to make a small division of the United States Army, so that I make claim to being a blacksmith. I have sewed up scalp wounds and set broken limbs because there was no one else to do it. I have administered simple remedies to those who were sick. They have desired my prescriptions.

There are so many things that have just happened to come to me in my life. I have practiced law because there was no one else to practice it in the country where I was; and I made it very interesting for evildoers. We had courts then that convicted men when they were guilty and discharged them when they were innocent.

I shall never forget one of those trials down in St. George in early days. William Fawcett was our justice of the peace. There was an attorney who came from Salt Lake to defend a fellow who had violated the law. Now there weren't many lawyers in those days, and the courthouse was crowded with people who all were anxious to hear the lawyer. The case went on, the witnesses gave their testimony, the justice of the peace declared the prisoner guilty. The attorney from Salt Lake began immediately to take exceptions and declared that he was going to appeal the case. The judge arose and said:

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"All of those who are present that sustain me in my verdict please hold up your hands."

Every hand went up and that was the end of the case.

Among other things, we had dramatics in those early days. I chanced to be one of the performers, and my wife here another. We were playing "East Lynn." If the College hasn't played it, I will bring my family up to see it if you will put it on in Logan. We were so successful at St. George that we took it up to Silver Reef. A great number of Cornishmen had been brought to work in the mines there. The house was crowded with people. I was playing the part of Sir Archibald, and my wife's sister was playing Lady Isabel. When it came to that part where Lad y Isabel on her knees pleads for forgiveness, (of course I had to be the stern husband who reprimanded her because of the mistake she had made) there walked down the aisle a big Cornishman with hi-s sleeves rolled above his elbows, who shook his fist at me and said: " Damn you, forgive her."

Later, in another play we were in a complica¡ tion on the stage which indicated that I had been the individual who had gone off with some money which did not belong to me. (Of course it was apparent to the audience that I was entirely innocent.)

It looked bad for me, however, until a boy jumped up on one of the seats and shouted: "Tony didn't take it. That man over there took it."

Well, there were many of these things, and I do not want to keep you too long.

I have learned something of the languages of the Indians among whom I have traveled and could translate them into my own tongue. I have studied geology sufficiently to classify the rocks, and I am never alone when I am with them, as I otherwise would.

I have read che:nistry, and in none of this have I ever had a teacher, until I have became familiar enough with it to make assays to determine contents and analogies of things. And just at the present time the only bad habit I have that I can speak of is when I get tired of everything else, going down into the cellar and getting my chemicals together; and like those people down at the Dream Mine, trying to extract gold from rocks that have no gold in them.

I stood one day on the rim of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. I could see the angry waves of see page ten

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for me had it not been for Father who had not entered the controversy before. When he said, "Leah i right- thing do not alway ettle to the bottom," how I loved him for it! I no longer felt mall and forsaken. I had Father!

He never preached to us nor scolded us-but he had a way of renewing our confidence in ourselves-we knew that he had great confidence in us and that he expected us to justify it.

At one time, in recent years, when men came to him complaining that his sons had expressed certain views and asking him to prevent any such thing in the future, his reply was, " My sons ar~ men with ideas of their own. I neither think for them nor tell them what they shall say."

Father was as tender in his feelings as a woman and ye t strong. People in trouble naturally turned to him. I remember seeing him in the living room at home one Sunday morning as he placed his arms about a man whose body was racked with sobs and who had just said to him, " Our baby died last night." I ee him as he walked past me after the man had gone and into his own room his face

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troubled and drawn, and as he came out ten minutes later serene and peaceful.

I see him as he supervised the digging of a grave for our beautiful little pointer dog, Fleete, who had been bitten by a rattler; and the placing of her name in nail heads on the side of the pine tree under which we left her away up in the Sierra Madres Mountains.

I see him as he stood in our own chapel on the hill and told in an unsteady voice the story of a horse that stood guard all night over the body of his dead master.

And again in our dining room in Mexico in the early morning hours, grey and tired, with an exhau ted little daughter in hi arms, the baby asleep at last after an all night vigil. Or as he sat night after night far into the night for weeks and weeks when my sisters were stricken with typhoid.

His love for his children did not blind him to his responsibilities, however, and when we needed chastisement it came as I have good reason to know.

The event is vivid in my memory-perhaps because it was the first and last time Father ever punished

THE LATE Anthony W. Ivins, President of the Board of Trustees at Utah State Agricultural College, signing degrees granted by the Board and College Faculty to the graduates of '34.

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me. It happened when we were building an addition onto our house in St. George. One of the workmen was named Tommy Hunt. He was a very small man with a long beard and he looked not unlike one of the dwarfs in Rip Van Winkle pictures.

We children thought it great fun to peek around the comer of the house and shout "Tommy Hunt hunts all the time!" and then run. I happened to be the one to shout just as Father came down the path from Grandma Ivinses. The ground was covered with pieces of wood and shingles. It was a shingle that Father used on me. I do not remember the hurt-only the shame I felt at what I had done.

Among my mental pictures of Father there will always be one of him among his flowers. He loved them and spent long hours working in them. I see him in Mexico bending over a tiny tea rose bushnursing it along as though it were a child.

I remember when he offered ten cents apiece for the bulbs of a rare and beautiful little tiger lily which grew in the Sierra Madres. Each bulb produced a single bloom which lasted but a day. I remember his delight when he got enough to plant the length of the path from the gate to the house.

I see him out gathering his loveliest dahlias in Salt Lake to take to a sick friend at the hospital.

I see the two little green vases on the mantel piece at home always with flowers in them that he had placed there himself. I see the flower in his lapel.

I think of the day we found l!im in his garage making a bird house for the blue bird he had seen in his back yard. That bird or another one really did appropriate the tiny dwelling.

It was not unusual when we went to Salt Lake to find him in the basement wearing his old duster and working with his ore samples. Each of his daughters wears a pale pure gold band upon her finger which was made from gold assayed by him.

Some of my happiest memories are of the time spent in the great out-of-doors.

I see Father bending over an open sack of flour mixing and kneading the baking powder bread with his hands. Then I see it brown and golden as he lifted it from the bake skillet and I taste it all hot and covered with fresh ranch butter from Chuichupa.

I see him as he led " Bright Angel" the burro at the Grand Canyon lodge, out into the Kaibab forest with two little granddaughters astride the burro because he wanted them to see a deer.

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I see him and the boys as they returned so often at dusk in Mexico, each with a deer across hi horse.

I remember his solicitude for my mother whose health was delicate-how he always made a bed for her in the wagon box so that she could rest on the long trips into the mountains.

Father was generous almost to a fault. His children never asked for money without receiving much more than they needed.

He wrote " paid in full" across a fortune in notes after the Mexican revolution and gave and gave during the depression. So many came to him for aid.

There are many other pictures which come to me as I write of him- 1 see him on " Jimmy," first in St. George and then in Mexico. " Jimmy" was old and stiff and almost useless when we went to Mexico but Father had ridden him in his prime on hi s ranch on the Kaibab - he saved Father's life one time-and Father could not leave him behind.

So he took him with hi s other fin e hoi'Ses and turned him out to pasture.

I see him feeding the dogs, Mona and Pepper, in Salt Lake in recent weeks. They came every night and scratched on the front door. Father never di sappointed them. They shared his last birthday dinner.

I hear him reading his sermons or the chapters of his book to mother and us children for our approval or criticism. I doubt if he ever filled a speaking engagement in all his long life without careful preparation.

I see him with a twinkle in his eye, carving a huge turkey as he told stories in his inimitable way.

And finally I see him standing out front at 519 B Street waving "good-bye" and calling " Come again soon" after he had kissed us all and closed our car door.

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the great river dashing against the rock-ribbed shores in their relentless, merciless way down to the sea. Clouds were gathering in the canyon below.

An eagle soared above them. I stood, contemplat¡ ing the grandeur of the river and the bird which soared above it. Inadvertently I turned my head to a nearby cove, shaded by trees and bushes, from which I heard the cooing of a dove and the song of

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a mocking-bird. A spring of clear water burst from the rocks above the cove and rushed merrily on to add its limpid waters to the mud and silt of the river below, and to be carried on to the bcean where it would he lost forever.

I thought as I contemplated my surroundings: The great river is like Genghis Kahn or Alexander of Macedon, going on in relentless fury, sweeping everything before it and leaving desolation behind.

And I said: " I will not be like the army of selfish, thoughtle s men, who are rushing on, perhaps to accomplish their own ambitions, but finally to be lost just as the river will be when it enters the sea.

It will he gone and forgotten forever; while the cove where the birds are singing, and the stream of limpid water which bursts from the rock will b here forever. Like the work of God, it will he a place where all who thirst may drink without money and without price."

Then and there I resolved in my mind that I would rather be the cove and its waters which are pure and will be lasting, and with the mocking-bird and dove, than to follow after the great river and b lost and forgotten in the army of selfish, ambitious men.

Thus I have gone on until it has brought me h r tonight. This is truly one of the happiest times of my life. I thank you for all the good things that have been aid of me, placing a greater responsibility on me than ever before. I hope that as life goe on I may be with this Alumni. And I have said, and believe, and bear witness to you, that I will b going down that long, long trail in another and h tter world, with you.

EHigineer Frederick D. P yle recently added one more fa orable cor to his 31 years of active engineering endeavors when he was appointed as hydraulic engineer for the city of San Diego. He received th appointment following the death of Hiram avage, hydrauli c engineer, whom he served as a istant for six year .

Fred's advancement places him as the highest paid appointive officer of the city. He was named for the position following the recommendation of hi fellow workmen and many prominent citizen. who felt him best suited to carry out the project of hi s predecessor.

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Hi immediate re ponsibility involves the supervision of the El Capitan dam project. Work on the clam during the fall months averaged a placement of about 3,000 yards a da y. When he took over the work, the dam was approximately 80 per cent completed with the hydraulic fill section requiring about 375,000 ya rds of material.

Hi first position was instrument man on the Reconnaisance Surveys of Bear Lake and Utah Lake, projects of the United States Reclamation Service. For 15 years he worked with the department doing experimental work and making underground water studie . He took charge of operation and maintenance of the North Platte project, later becoming irrigation manager. While connectecl with thi project he was required to formulatt' many reports which were sufficiently out tanding that they have been used as a model in many other Reclamation districts.

Later, in 1920, he became secretary and manager of the Columbia irrigation district at Kennewick, Washington. From 1922 to 1925 he serv d first as busine s manager and later as irrigation engineer of the Imperial irri gation district at Calexico, California.

From 1925 to 1926 he wa engaged in consulting work, inspecting water supply projects from San Diego to Yakima and reported the status of bonds in many irrigation districts. He wa engineermanager of the Vista irrigation district in 1928 when he was called by Engineer Savage to San Diego.

Fred i a strong believer in higher education.

He has two sons and a daughter attending the San Di ego State College, a daughter who is an alumna of San Diego State, and another on till attend the San Diego High School.

N ¡e w Directory A new, up-to-date directory of the entire membership of the Alumni Association of Utah State has been requested by many of its members.

The a sembling of such a directory has already begun and a plea is being issued to all member to a sist in compiling the necessary material in order that the directory may be complete in every detail. Only through the cooperation of every Alumnus will it be possible to secure the needed information.

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Quality ¡vs. Size MOto n B. M errill ' 2 5 Twenty-four hundred students will have registered at the Utah State Agricultural College when the final count on the year 1934-35 is made by the registrar. The final total may be even higher, twenty-four hundred is a conservative estimate. It would he impossible to find a more remarkable tribute to the caliber of work the College has been doing.

Primarily the student increases of recent years can be attributed to the quality of teaching and the type of courses which the College offers. There are additional factors such as the moral tone of the student body, the generally democratic atmosphere which persists despite increasing size, the comparatively low costs for living and for college activities; these have all contributed, but they are secondary to the growing recognition of the Institution's superior quality.

This view is substantiated by the character of the increasing enrollment. The increase has not been fitful and sporadic. It has been regular and continuous. For the past ten years the annual registration has climbed upward. In that period there hasn't been a single year when a drop has occurred.

The years of depression failed to halt the rate of increase. For the college year 1924-25 the total registration at the College was 986, or approximate} y 40 /{ of the total for the present year. It i true that the present year saw a rise in the rate of increase, and this is accounted for by the fact that all institutions in the country showed increases this year. The College received its share of the students who after one, two or three years absence from educational institutions decided to return this year.

Continuing registration increases in years when state appropriations have been diminishing, have created problems. Only the greatest ingenuity coupled with a fine exhibition of loyalty on the part of faculty members has enabled the Institution to solve these problems in any acceptable way. It has been fortunate that the increases have been coming with regularity, they have been expected, and advance preparations could be made to meet them.

After the growth had continued for four or five years without abatement the administration simply made plans on the assumption of an increase in student registration, not only for the succeeding year, but for a number of years in advance. In other words the College, handicapped as it has been by decreasing appropriations, has planned in ad-

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vance for a student body of the present size. The Administration has never been taken by surprise by increases. They have been expected and every effort! has been directed toward eliminating deficiencies, equalizing teaching loads, revamping schedules, reorganizing curriculums, in order that more and more students could be taken care of satisfactorily. It was known they were coming. In some manner they had to be given the high quality of work which they naturally expected and which was the chief impetus which prompted them to select this particular Institution.

Too much cannot be said in praise of the faculty members. They have increased teaching loads, they have expanded the size of their classes, they have doubled the number of office hours. Regardless of personal inconvenience and the personal sacrifices necessary they have been insistent on maintaining quality. Scholastic quality is the foundation on which the college has been built, and the faculty members have been determined that the foundation should not be undermined.

These two factors have been the principal reasons for the preservation of the scholarship and standing of the College during the past few years .

The administration has shown in advance that nonessentials would have to be cut out, that every year the problem would be to take care of more students, occasionally with less money. This combination of administration and faculty effort has been so successful that quality has been maintained . It has been a considerable achievement.

Of couro:e, this type of thing can't go on forever. The Institution does need additional help.

The College is far below all comparable institutions in its cost per student. The same thing is true of other institution of higher learning in Utah.

They all need some relief. There is no doubt that the College will continue to grow. There are still hundreds of high school graduates in Utah who are just waiting for an opportunity to attend college. The number of high school graduates is increasing. At the same time the College is apparently meeting the requirements of the modern age and the demands of the students themselves. The College has done really splendid work in giving these students expert training; it will be necessary for the State to aid the Institution with this responsibility.

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The phenomenal ri e in tudent enroll ment which ha characterized the in titution for the past ten years ha marked the period of time in which the Honorable Anthony W. Ivin erved a President of th Boa rd of Tru tees of the Utah State Agricu ltural College a one of the mo t ucce sful period in it hi Lory. The accelerati on which occurred during the pa t year a wi ll be ob erved by the above chart ha placed the college in a size group which include many of the great institution of America. The grow th within the institution has been uniform and each of the variou departments ha been strengthened and improved. Thi is especiall y true of the School of Agriculture.

People who have fai led to underland or who are unfamiliar with the purpo e of Land-grant in titution have occasionall y criticized them becau e of the low percentage of stu· dents who are pecializina ole ly in agriculture . There i no seriou argument for the charge again st an y

Land-grant in titution, but certain ly there is no basis for it as it con· cerns the Utah College.

On the last date for which figures were available the regi trar of the Co llege reported that 561 were reg· i tered in Agriculture. This fact be· comes particularly ignificant when one realizes that on ly men tudent are regi tered in the chool. The drawing power of Agricu ltu re i materially increa ed in compari on with other chools when con idered in this light.

It is a! o ob erved that Ia t year the number of tudents studying Agriculture at the college wa greater than at in titution in the more popu lous tates as well a tate which were more completel y agricu ltural. Undoubtedly when the figure for the present year are checked it will find Utah very near the top. Possibly even ahead of California, the pre ent leader. The 56] figure wa obtained from th e regi tration near the beginning of the fall quarter and does not in-

elude recent addition . The total for the year will be approximately 600 tudent .

By comparison it is hown that more tuden t are studying Agriculture, in proportion to the popu· lation of the tate, than in any other state in the union. Ba ed on thi year regi tration in Agriculture, the ratio i l :846. Thi mean that one student i specializing in Agriculture at tah tate Agricultural College for every 846 of the tate' population. Thi s i , without question, th highe t ratio of any of the Land-grant in titutions, regard les of the region in which they are located. Thi ituation may be exp lained by the fact that graduates from the School of griculture in recent years e pecially those trained in the more technical fields, have been particular] successful in securi ng employment and appoint· ments even in these time of depres· SJOJ1.

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Four Dr. Joseph E. Greaves is professor of Bacteriology and Bio-Chemistry for Utah State and Chemist an?

Bacteriologist on the Utah Expenment Station Staff. He has become known and is recognized as one of the outstanding workers in this field.

He i the author of several text books and pamphlets on bacteriology and Bio-Chemistry.

Orval W. Adams, vice-president of the Utah State National Bank, was elected President of the Salt Lake Clearing House association at the annual meeting held during January at the Federal Reserve bank. He succeeds E. A. Culbertson, vice-president nf the Continental Bank and Trust Company. Orval is manager of the Utah State National Bank of Salt Lake and is also Auditor for the L. D. S. Church.

Elmer G. Peterson, President of 0ur own Utah State, is a member of the state board of education of Utah.

Frank L. West is also serving Utah W. W. GARDNER, '21, State as dean of the faculty and pro- Conrtractor and Builder fessor of physics and mathematics.

These men through their long serv- to hi credit. He received his B. S. ice with the college have endeared degree in Agricultural Engineering themselves to the many thousands of from Utah State in 1921. Previously students they have so nobly influ- in 1908 he had obtained his B. S. enced. and C. E. degree from Oregon State Ray B. West, Dean of the School College. of Engineering at the College, is a F o I I o w i n g his graduation , he member of the State Planning Board served as engineer in charge of the of Utah, the advisory committee to drainage system of the Oregon State the governor on con truction an~ _re- Farm at the University of Oregon. lief projects of the state. In additiO~ Relinquishing his post at this place, to his activities in the field of engi- he next served for two years as inneering he serves as Bishop of the structor in the Civil Engineering DeLogan L. D. S. Fifth Ward. He is partment at Oregon State. From 1912 recognized as one of Utah's foremost to 1916 he was assistant State Road engineers.

Engineer of the Utah State Road David E. Stephens, active in cereal Commission. At present he heads the crops research, has attracted interna- construction company, Christensontional attention in his work, also he Gardner Inc., and has been connected has been recognized by many nation- with the organization since its estabal agencies for his work on Oregon lishment in 1919. wheat farms. He is now located at In addition, Wilf has served in enMoro, Oregon. gineering capacities for the Idaho IrWarren G. Swendsen, prominent rigation Investigation Survey, the Utah and I d a h o engineer, has Loose Land and Irrigation Company, achieved distinction both in his Villiadson Brothers and the Amerip u b I i c and professional activities can Smelting and Refining Company. through his work in the State of He is a member of Rotary and the Idaho. He wa located in Boise when Country Club of Salt Lake City, and we last heard from him. the Associated General Contractors of Twenty-one America.

He boasts of two daughters, Tess Better than a quarter of a century in the field of engineering is what and Gloria, and a son, Wilford.

Howard McDonald was recently Wilford W. Gardner of Salt Lake has

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appointed director of personnel for the entire San Francisco Public School system. This places Howard in a position of responsibility, giving him charge of the selection, introduction and the promotion of the teach · ing staff of the school system.

In announcing Howard for the po· sition, Superintendent Lee stated: " In selecting Mr. Howard McDonald for this important responsibility I have had in ' mind the universal high regard in which he is held among edu cators both in and out of San Francisco, his fine scholarship, his record as a Dean of Boys, and his sp lendid gentlemanliness."

Howard was selected for this position after close connection with the chool system during the pa t nine years. While he has been in San Francisco he ha been active in Boy Scout work, having served as Seoul Master for a number of troops and director of the Feather River Camp for boys in the Sierras.

He entered Utah State in 1917 and shortly afterward he enlisted in 'the service of the United States army.

Following his enlistment he studied radio for two months at the Univer«ity of Colorado in preparation for hls six months of active duties over seas.

Upon returning to the United States, he resumed his studies during the spring of 1919, at the Utah State Agricultural College, and was awarded a degree of Bachelor of Science in 1921. During his senior year at college, he tau ght mathematics, continuing in this position until 1924 when he left for San Francisco to become a member of the Mission high school faculty. .

Howard, in 1925, compl~ted his work for the Master of Arts degree in School Administration from the University of California.

George D. Clyde, Professor. of _Ir· rigation Engineering, also lrngatiOn and Drainage Engineer for the Utah Experiment Station, bas been water conservator for the State of Utah dur. ing the past summer. He was appointed to this position by Governor Henry H. Blood.

Durinu the summer, Prof. Clyde vi ited the Pacific Coast in connection with this new work and attended meetings of the Inter-state Conference on Snow Surveying and Stream Flow Forecasting and meetings of the Hydrology Section of the American

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Geophysical Union. He al so did field work on methods of snow surveying in various western states.

In cooperation with William Peterson '99, Director of the Utah Drouth Relief Agencies, he contributed greatly to the relief of drouth-stricken areas of this and surrounding states.

His work in this respect has attracted much favorable comment from national agencies involved in the relief of drouth areas.

Twenty-sb: Dr. H. Loran Blood, a member of the Utah State Experiment Station Staff, and al so associated with the United States Department of Agriculture, ha been recognized for hi s work in the control of bacterial canker of tomatoes. High tribute to Dr. Blood and his work \Vas paid by Dr. Victor R. Boswell of the United States Department of Agriculture in a recent address delivered at Am¡ hurst, Massachusetts.

On that occasion Dr. Boswell stated that through Dr. Blood's recent discovery the disease can be almost entirely eliminated and needs no longer be a factor in the important tomato growing sections of the nation and this state. He also declared Dr. Blood's discovery to be "one of the most remarkable recent developments in the finding of a method to control bacterial canker of tomatoes which has caused very serious losses in the last few years."

The announcement of Dr. Blood's findin gs was made some time ago and the results are already evident in important tomato growing areas. He is to continue his study of other plant diseases at the college.

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tained, after two years, her degree of Master of Arts in the field of Home Economics. Later she did graduate work at Columbia University. She has directed the work in the Home Economics Departments of the Mission and Balboa High Schqols in San Francisco for the past few years.

Mrs. Balzarini is well remembered at the college for her activities as a member of the Empyrean Club, a charter member of Phi Upsilon Omicron, national honorary Home Economics fraternity, a member of the Junior Prom Committee of 1920, Phi Kappa Phi, and a Scholarship "A" winner in 1920.

Being one of the best qualified for this task, Grant will fill this position as well as continuing as supervisor of the State Capitol grounds.

In recognition of his unusual ability, he was elected during the past season as president of the Utah Association Garden Clubs.

Clinton D. Vernon recently took over the duties of assistant United States attorney. He was administered the oath of office by Allen J. Krouse, Secretary to the U. S. attorney.

Clinton is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Weston Vernon, prominent Logan. residents.

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Grant R. Bowen was recently appointed consulting and advisory landscape architect for Utah State.

Grant's appointment has been an important factor in stimulating the beautification of the campus. Numerous projects, made possible with the installation of the new water system constructed with P. W. A. funds, are rapidly going forward under his direction.

Paul Larsen has resumed his dutie as instructor of Mathematics at the Preston, Idaho, Junior high schoo l after studying at George Washington University during the past summer.

Alladine Bell leading dramatic student of Utah State has been awarded a scholarship to study in the speech department of Yale University for the coming year.

While a student at Utah State, Alladine, daughter of Professor Ruth Moench Bell, was first awarded a scholarship to Northwestern University where she received her degree last spring.

The mariage of Sabina Lee, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Lee of Thatcher, Arizona, to Preston P. Larsen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nephi Larsen of Preston, Idaho, was solemnized November 3 at Los Angeles.

The marriage of Bernice Quinney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Quinney, to Julian D. Tait, Los Angeles, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Tait, took place June 8, 1934 in the Logan L. D. S. Temple.

Twenty-two Active and interesting i the career of Florence Walker-Balzarini since her graduation from Utah State. With a major in clothing and textiles in the School of Home Economics, Mrs. Balzarini started her career as teacher of Home Economics at the Box Elder High School at Brigham City.

In 1925 she returned to Utah State where she accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the School of Home Economics. Following her sojourn at the college, she studied at the University of California and ob-

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REYNOLDS KNOWELL, '28, Director Region Two, Land Policy Section of the A.A.A. District Two Comprises Three Great Lakes States.

The marriage of Miss Hazel Woodland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Woodland, to L. L. Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Davis of Malad, Idaho, took place July 16, 1934.

Henry Cooper is teaching at the Woodruff school in the Logan city school system. He has charge of the health work and physical education in the fourth , fifth and sixth grades.

An interesting Aggie wedding of the past season was that of Barbara

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Theurer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alma Theurer of Tremonton, to Clarence Stucki '28, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Stucki of Logan.

Address Unknown Do you Know Where They Are? Send Address to AIUJDni Office.

Henry J . Skidmore has enrolled as a cadet at the United States Naval Academy at West Point.

Henry, son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Skidmore of Logan, had just completed his Freshman year at Utah State when he received his appointment given during the last summer.

Beatrice Hogen son, popular Ag9ie dramati t and character actor, is mslruclor of Speech and Physical Education at the Sugar City, Idaho, high school. She succeeded Miss Veda Tremelling '33, now Mrs. LeFoy Richman, to ·the position.

Utah Aggie graduates in dairy manufacturing have been placed, with little difficulty, in good positions during the past yea r, according to Professor A. J. Morris head of the department. Not only has the department met with succe s in placing graduate students but temp0rary work during summer months has also been secured for man y of the upper division students.

George Jackson, a member of last year's class, received an appointment to an assistantship in the dHiry de· partment of the University of California at Davis, California. George is in charge of all the cheese makin g at the school and recently conducted courses in cheese making at the California Dairy Short Course at the University. He is also doing graduate study at the school.

Other students from the class to receive positions are Glen Pyper of Heber City, who is making ice cream for Schramm-Johnson Drug Company in Salt Lake City. Lowell Roskel ley of Brigham is with the Mid· Western Dairy Products Company at Ogden. Clyde McCullock of Logan is student foreman at the dairy plant at Utah State. Rulon Chadwick is making ice cream for the Model Dairy at Ogden and Ray Mills is with the Mutual Creamery Compan y at Ogden.

Walker Finlinson has taken charge of all the dairy work at the Branch Agricultural College at Cedar City.

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Emma Mo uritzen Eden C. Lorentzen Daniel F. Olsen Charles Coul sen Wri l!ht Edmund Cruwford Steph en C. P erry Hsin g Huan g Yao Roy Homer Fi her Hatt ie White 1atti e 0 . P eter on Wright Hazel Louise All en Richard Ballantyne P enin a Wrathall And er on Edith Rudolph Hillma n Erne t Bower James Warren Bin~rham J ames Henry Sm ith Francis Coray Era ·tus Jordan Diehl Elvin E. Eva ns Willi am H. Evart Floyd Ha mmond Ka i Lum Lung Heber Carver Floyd .TohnRo n Hatti e Bell Querry· RoRs Orson P . Madsen F. S. Slaugh Enock Nelson Alfred T. Tippelt s Willi am Parley Day Martin B. Peterso n Vern al Willie Dani el L. P ack SteiJa Viola Pitt , Cadmu s Wallace John Co rn eliu P ope Glenn L. Voorhn~ Rudolph Church Archer Will ey Herman M. Co nway A. M. McOrmi e Leo n Willi e Mary C. J o n e~ Will ard L. Peterso n Winifred Smith Whitehea d Bla in e J ohn Kel ey Jam es Ira AnJ crson M. Darwin Robison J . F . eigfri ed Clifton Georj!e Busby Elm er C. Smith Evelyn Cook Cla rence E. Jones J oseph W. Co rn ell Russell J. Standing Ca rlos Lambert Geo rp;e Holmstea d Melvin T aylor Wallace McFarlan e Ca rl Wm . John so n Warren K. Westcol.l .l uanita Rich G. M. Malik Geneva Ensign Wri ght Emm a All en McAllister Charles Snow, Jr. Ezra R. Ri chard s, Jr. L. M. Win sonn .Ta me E. Sjo trom Ruth Horsley Chadw ick .Tames 0. White Herschel H. Coles Taylor M. Ca rmi chael John Willi am Wri ght Verona Cox Elda Nelson Eri ckson Albert J. Hitsker M.G. Wooley Elroy Brober~: W . Spencer Hunte r Gustave 0 . Hold ebcrg Wendell 0 . H yde Eth el Davenport Anderson J a mes R. J ennin gs Milton B. J ensen Aseal W. Burke Effie Jones A. B. J one Naomi Nelso n Lenore Ure-Carroll T. Lu cille Ri ch a rd ~ George Edward Kin g William L. Clark Clara Mari e Kremer D. R. Coombs Dorothy Shepard Rogers Oli ve Wooley Pace G. H. Dixon Emma Baker Sorenson Ardella B. Smith Joseph Hickman Lional Winton Sorenso n Laurence J. Sorenso n J . W. Stevens Robert J. Kewley James W. Trash Evelyn Rielly McCoy Claudia Funk Walt ers Ole Ch ristense n Ernest Mohr Byron M. Whitney Ivy M. Burnham Spencer Lucian Mecham , .Jr. Harry John Olson William H. Willison Marie Carlson T eets A.lena Wri p;ht Sm ith Karl D. Winn Charles H. West David A. Smith Ka therine Wood John E. White Azmon Dennis Whit e Edna White · Woodruff Hyrum Ander on Ethan LaSalle All en Harold Claude Batema n Mary N. Reese Anderson Giragos Avedian Jam es Emanual Bergstrom Grover Clyde Laura Crookston Chester Arthur Chambers George R. Hales Lil\e Louise Eberl e LeRoy Bebhe Clark Harold R. Haga n Cleon L. Memmot Clarence Allred Cora y Martin L. Harris Norman F. Morgan Florence Cranney John I. Lauritzen J. Waldo Parry J ohn Stanley Fenton Roy M. Madsen ~~ John William Ford Joseph H. Snow ·• Charles Waldron Ha rri s Violet Greenhalgh Snow Willis George House Stanley Rodin A nd c r~o n J ea n R. Woodside Melvin Samuel Arnold Lesli e 0. J ensen Essie Nathan P ea rson Mignon Barker Ameen Khan Byron Jam es Smith A. L. Cook eyed J a far Kh a n . Cooper Smith Cla rence H. Forhes

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