The New Education (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 15, 1911 Page: 1 of 4
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The New Education
‘Vol. 2
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STILLWATER, OKLAHOMA, FEbxAc/ef
TRAINING YOUNG MEN TO BE CIVIL
ENGINEERS
In the civil engineering work at the A. & M.
College, just as in other lines of instruction, the
constant aim is to adapt the teaching both in the-
ory and practice to the needs of the State and,
as far as possible, to anticipate these needs. We
are still young and our requirements, our stand-
ards, and our tastes are not yet fixed. When we
consider our phenomenal growth, however, and
how near we come, in most instances, to living
up to the motto, “Nothing too good for Oklaho-
ma,” we cannot help but admit that the needs of
the future are great. To the civil engineer must
fall the locating and constructing of railroads, of
which many parts of the State feel a pressing
need; the planning and building of wagon roads,
the importance of which does not have to be urged
upon our up-to-date farmer; the paving of city
streets, construction of city waterworks and sewer
systems,---all these and other lines of endeavor
will furnish increasing opportunities to the young
men who are prepared for them, and call for great-
er diligence and thoroughness in preparation.
We keep constantly before us the fact that those
things are of most importance to a student which
will enable him to rill a definite place, to do his
work and do it well.
Our experimental work is planned with the
same idea in view, of following those lines of in-
vestigation which seem most closely related to
the practical problems that confront us here in
Oklahoma. The thesis work, which will occupy
the attention of the senior students during the
spring term, will be arranged with special refer-
ence to problems in engineering and construction,
which are of importance at the present time. In
line with the widespread interest in good roads,
two of the students are making laboratory exam-
inations of road materials from different parts of
the State. Others are to make a series of tests of
some recent methods of rendering concrete water-
proof. This is a subject which has been given con-
siderable thought during the last few years and
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AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND DE-
VELOPMENT IN OKLAHOMA
HON. CHARLES F. BARRETT
Secondary Scnools of Agriculture.—The six
district agricultural colleges were created by the
hirst and Second Legislatures and are maintained
wnolly at tiie state expense, and 111 addition to
the state experiment stations operated at these
scnools the State has provided for sixty-nine dem-
onstration farms of forty acres each, which are
operated directly under the supervision and con-
trol of the State Board of Agriculture.
1 his, then, is the broad and progressive foun-
dation on which the new State is building for
the advancement and prosperity of the common
people—the people who toil with their hands as
well as their heads, and who are by virtue of their
industry and good citizenship entitled to that
"Equal Chance” of which we hear and read so
much and experience and see so little when we
investigate the trend of education in our sister
states and of the Nation for the past 40 or soyears.
These colleges and schools, experiment sta-
tions and demonstration farms are all closely ar-
ticulated and interwoven with the county farmers’
institute system, to which we have referred and
comprise in their entirety the Oklahoma method
of dealing with the subject of practical education
for the agricultural and industrial masses—a sub-
ject of more vital and serious material conse-
quences than any now confronting the Nation.
The reports of these institutions and depart-
ments, which are obtainable upon application
free, will show in concrete form the wonderful
successes that have already been achieved and
accomplished in this fruitful and virgin field of
endeavor. Those reports point out some of the
difficulties that have been overcome and the many
that are yet to be encountered before the work
can be called perfect, but they also tell the story
of the sturdy effort and high purpose that has
animated the founders, builders, law makers and
teachers of the new State in the attempt to create
here a system of practical, helpful education, that
will solve the mysteries of abandoned farms, high-
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1911 No. 4
—
WHAT OTHERS SAY OF THE TRAIN
It is gratifying indeed to the College authori-
ties and to the State Board of Agriculture to hear
and see in print the many favorable comments on
the good work and results accomplished by the
traveling school of agriculture now finishing a
twenty-one days’ tour of the eastern part of Okla-
homa. That the Oklahoma farmers are interested
in better seeds, which insure better crops, better
cultivation, better live stock, how to maintain the
fertility of the soil, and the successful methods of
combatting the insect pests is revealed by the fact
that an average of more than one thousand people
have visited the train at each stop, and the very
close attention paid to the lecturers.
1 he following extracts are taken from some of
the papers in communities where the College
Special has made a stop.
State Repaid for Investment in Agricultural Ed-
ucation.—In bringing the school on wheels to the
farmers of Oklahoma the State is being repaid
doubly for its investments in agricultural educa-
tion. Here is immediate remuneration. The slo-
gan of the demonstration train is “A million and a
quarter bales of cotton and a total value of farm
products for the year 1911 of two houndred mil-
lions of dollars. brom the fact that production
is falling below the increase in population farmers
may expect a high range of values. With good
prices and increased products, benefits innumer-
able come to the State, pile up wealth and de-
crease the tax rate. Agricultural education deals
with an applied science. The experience of our
boys and girls from an occupational standpoint is
the preparatory school which fits them for admis-
sion to our ^rgicultural schools. The needs of the
school are the needs of the State. Boys and girls
coming from the country home to school should
find an environment true to their experiences for
correction and. expansion. Agricultural education
not only furnishes a professional training whereby
our boys and girls become bread winners and
creators of wealth, but from a cultural standpoint
or from the standpoint of mental training its
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ENGINEERING STUDENTS OF A. & M. COLLEGE AT WORK
(i)Surveying; (2) Mechanical Drawing; (3) Phy sics Lecture Reom; (4) Automobile Construction; (5) Electrical Laboratory; (6) Testing Strength of Materials.
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Connell, J. H. The New Education (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 15, 1911, periodical, February 15, 1911; Stillwater, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1599226/m1/1/?q=technical+manual: accessed June 5, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.