A TRAIN LOAD OF STUDENT EXHIBITS
A Train Load of Student Exhibits How the Young Men and Women at the North Dakota Agricultural College are Going To Show the People of the State What They Are Learning To Do AUNIQUE WAY of...
...Well," said one, "I guess the change in administration isn't going to affect us any...
...And if your neighbors agree with you, form a club right there, then go ahead and widen the circle...
...They both laughed,, shook hands again and strolled into the copy-room...
...The Record can't do without you and me...
...Get together with the neighbors and talk these matters over...
...home economics, horticulture, English history, mathematics, military science, music, modern languages, physical training, athletics, education, commercial branches, extension and pub-lie speaking, subjects taught at the Agricultural College...
...The answer is simple, says Henry Smith Williams, who, in the Century, describes the painstaking manner in which Germany collects visible evidence of such experiments for exhibition in her greatest museum...
...It is needless to say that both the students will be under the direct supervision of a skilled engineer...
...As a suggestion, why not invite two or three, neighbors and their families to your home, and after dinner is over bring the conversation around to the question of improved stock, or silos, or a grain breeding association —in short, whatever the neighborhood needs...
...The exhibits will be arranged entirely by the students...
...They will be responsible for the electric lights on the train as well as a great many interesting exhibits gotten up entirely by themselves...
...They will not only figure on the amount of food that is necessary to feed a delegation of seventy-two people for four days, but they will also plan the menus and prepare the food for the hungry palates...
...The rib roasts, the juicy porterhouse steaks, and the soup bones will come from a steer butchered and dressed by a college student...
...We already have splendid zoological collections and museums of natural history...
...They will raise the necessary funds by personal subscription, solicitation and entertainments...
...The coach car will contain a motion picture show, the moving picture machine to be operated by students...
...The butter, the breakfast sausage, the canned tomatoes, and fruits, used on the train will be made by the students...
...Life Jobs Two old friends met in the sanctum of the Congressional Record and cordially shook hands...
...The other baggage car will contain exhibits from the departments of agriculture, veterinary science, chemistry, pharmacy, biology, geology...
...The dynamo baggage car will be in charge of the college engineering students...
...A Train Load of Student Exhibits How the Young Men and Women at the North Dakota Agricultural College are Going To Show the People of the State What They Are Learning To Do AUNIQUE WAY of "carrying the . university to the people" has been announced at the North Dakota Agricultural College—a fertile field for ideas of making science serve public needs...
...No danger," said the other...
...The time is ripe for such a movement, why not set the ball rolling in your own locality by the opening of 1913?—Farm, Stock and Home...
...The lesson of it all is that we must spread broadcast a better knowledge of scientific affairs, and I know of no better way in which this can he accomplished than by the establishment of such a museum as that in Munich...
...If it be worth while to spend money to exhibit the life-histories of reptiles, birds and the lower order of mammals, must it not be of greater importance to make known to the coming generations the life-history of man himself...
...One will act as fireman, the other as the engineer...
...The dining car will be under the supervision of the young ladies in the department of Home Econo-mics...
...Farmers' Clubs Early winter is the time of year to start the farmers' club movement With the active field work laid aside there is at this season of the year some time that should be given to the business of the community as a whole...
...The flour used on the train will come from the college mill, which will be ground from the wheat grown on the college farm...
...One of the most unique features in connection with the train is the fact that it will be run, manned and operated by students...
...great majority to become better citizens, better farmers, better homemak-ers and better mechanics...
...It is an open secret that Germany has gone ahead by leaps and bounds in recent years chiefly because official Germany has fostered the scientific spirit on the part of its laboratory workers, and given recognition to the results of their labors...
...It is because the history of science furnishes the clearest and most satisfactory key to the present state of science...
...These are of great popular interest, and not without a certain educational value...
...One was "Laughter...
...The expense of the train will be met entirely by the students...
...they represent interests that pertain to a somewhat early stage of human progress...
...Two students will ride in the engine...
...They will bake the bread, the hot biscuits, the apple pies, the cakes and other tempting delicacies...
...The fried chickens will come from fowls hatched in an incubator run by students...
...Museum a Key to Science WHY, IT MAY BE ASKED, SHOULD WE of to-day care to inform ourselves about the pioneer experiments of our fathers...
...In order to give the people of the state a correct impression of what the institution really stands for, the students of the North Dakota Agricultural College, through their governing body called the student council, have chartered a special train for a four days' pilgrimage...
...The other "Applause.-plain Dealer...
...As stated, the main object of this college is to teach "such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic ants: in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life," to train a few students for research work and the...
...Why is it not sufficient that we should know that heat is a mode of motion, and not a material fluid, without concerning ourselves as to how, when, or by whom the experiments were made through which this fact came to be a part of common knowledge...
Vol. 5 • February 1913 • No. 6
