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Going to College in 
 War Times 
 
 Issued by 
 
 IOWA STATE COLLEGE 
 Ames, Iowa 
 
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 NOV ' 27 1917 
 
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 OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF 
 
 IOWA STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE 
 
 AND MECHANIC ARTS 
 
 Vol. XVI 
 
 August 1, 1917 
 
 No. 9 
 
 Going to College in War Times 
 
 "The number of boDs and girls enlering college next fall oughl la 
 be much larger than usual. In a hlal of 60,000,000 people of pro- 
 ductive age in the United States, 350,000 students in higher education 
 constitute only about one-half of one per cent. THEIR COINC 
 TO COLLEGE WILL NOT LOWER THE PRODUCTIVE 
 CAPACITY OF THE COUNTRY AS A WHOLE IN ANY 
 APPRECIABLE DECREE." 
 
 U. S. Commissioner of Education Claxton. 
 
 S THIS a year for college or not? 
 
 Thousands of young men and women of college 
 age ax»d fitness in Iowa, and their parents, are deep- 
 ly concerned with this question. 
 
 For some the answer will come in the call to 
 arms, but for the greater number, by far, the issue 
 of going on with an education or not must be settled 
 otherwise. They must consider what will be the gain or the loss 
 if they do not get that training for big tasks and capable leader- 
 ship which education affords; they must weigh the needs of the 
 country as well as their own individual ambitions, and then de- 
 cide. At the same time, they must dispose of the related ques- 
 tion, "If not college, then what?" It is demanded of young men 
 and women that they have a positive plan for their lives, not merely 
 a negative policy. It is not enough in these or any other times 
 to be merely cutting off this or that unnecessary thing; it is essen- 
 tial also that there be an adding on of worth-while things and the 
 planning of more and larger undertakings. 
 
 Going to college is generally conceded to be worth while. It 
 is so much worth while that it is not to be cut out of the plans of 
 young people without a very urgent reason. It is the world's ex- 
 perience that mainly thru thoro education do men and women 
 qualify for the larger places in life. More and more, those who 
 have had college training are filling the positions of large responsi- 
 bility and leadership. Ninety-five per cent of those who have 
 
 Published weekly. Entered as secoDd-class matter at post office at Ames, Iowa, under act of Aug. 24, 1912. 
 
achievec3 things sufficiently important in this country to give them 
 a place in such a list of notables as "Who's Who in America," 
 had the advantages of college education. In many lines of en- 
 deavor, cind particularly in technical fields, preparation in college 
 is an essential without which it is exceedingly difficult, if not im- 
 possible, to win success. 
 
 Industry Can Spare Those Ready 
 for College 
 
 IDUT a considerable number of young people, or their parents, 
 raise the question whether the war has not changed matters. 
 Granting that thoro education is desirable under the ordinary con- 
 ditions of peace, they ask whether it is desirable to make sacrifices 
 for it under the extraordinary conditions of war. 
 
 Many who ask this question feel that perhaps boys and girls 
 who are ready for college might serve the country better at work 
 in the industries rather than by going to college. They should 
 recall the statement of the United States commissioner of educa- 
 tion that if the colleges are filled up this fall they v^ll take out 
 of production only about one-half of one per cent of the men and 
 women of productive capacity in this country, and their going to 
 college n^ill not loiver the production of the countr}) in an^ ap- 
 preciable degree. 
 
 Then, too, there must be considered the relative values of what 
 the boys and girls may do now in the industries and what they 
 may do in a few years with more education and special training 
 for bigger tasks. Without additional education and training they 
 will be part of the many millions who lack these things; with ad- 
 ditional education and training they may be counted wath the few 
 thousands who have special equipment and who are able to render 
 larger service accordingly. The boy or girl who now abandons 
 plans for going on with an education is quite likely to abandon 
 them for all time, for it will be many times more difficult to go on 
 next year, and perhaps impossible the next. To give up now 
 may mean getting shunted on to some sidetrack of inefficiency, 
 with little or no chance to get back on the main line of efficiency 
 which carries men and women along to bigger aims and ends. Of 
 course it is not unworthy to go into immediate service, but in the 
 long run the young man or woman with education is likely to 
 
make up many times for the few years spent in college. The 
 United States commissioner of education puts it this way: 
 
 "The desire lo render immediate service is praiseworthy, but it is 
 effective service which finally counts. Students should ever ^eep this 
 goal in mind." 
 
 War Increases Demand for Educated 
 Leadership 
 
 COMETIMES the question is asked in this debate about going 
 **^ to college whether war has not decreased the demand for edu- 
 cated leadership. On the contrary, war has increased it, and 
 will increase it still more. In every field of endeavor, in agricul- 
 ture, in engineering, in the industries, in the homes, in business, 
 in the professions, in the schools, in pubHc service, in the army 
 and navy, the call is especially urgent for those who have had 
 preparation that enables them to direct and to lead. The organ- 
 ization of the nation's great war machine today is almost wholly 
 in the hands of men and women of college training. Recently 
 a mem who knows said that the first shortage of men and women 
 would come in the class of those with special educational quali- 
 fications for big tasks. It is certain that the need for such men 
 and women will not grow less as the war goes on, but many times 
 greater, and the war seems likely to go on for years instead of 
 months. From the educational institutions must come a steady, 
 undiminishing stream of skilled doers and capable leaders. Those 
 in authority are as deeply anxious that the schools keep on turn- 
 ing out their product as they are that the farms and mills and 
 mines keep on producing theirs. 
 
 For the time after the war there is equal, if not greater, con- 
 cern. Then a world must be rebuilt and that cannot be done if 
 men and women trained to do it are not at hand. Just what 
 decision young men and women make about going to college this 
 year is of vital importance to the nation. If smaller and smaller 
 numbers are sent out from the colleges in the next few years, the 
 result will be disastrous. Yet that is certain to happen if now 
 there be decision ageunst going to college. No more can some- 
 thing be made from nothing in colleges than elsewhere, and unless 
 their classrooms, laboratories and shops are kept supplied with 
 students, they cannot supply the nation's demands for men trained 
 to do what the nation needs to have done. 
 
"When the rvar is over, ihere will be made upon us such demands 
 for men and women of ^noiu/ec/ge and training as have never before 
 come to an}) country. The colleges of Europe are now almost empty. 
 The older students, graduates and professors are fighting in the 
 trenches or are already dead, as are many scientific and literary men 
 whose worif is necessary for the enlargement of cultured life. For 
 many years after the war some of these countries will be unable to 
 support^ colleges. AMERICA MUST COME TO THE RES- 
 CUE." — Secretary of War Balder. 
 
 England's Experience Says "Keep 
 Colleges Filled** 
 
 17 NGLAND'S experience gives support to those who believe 
 that the colleges, and especially the technical colleges, must 
 be kept filled. Her educational institutions were swept empty by 
 the great armyward movement of the first yedj of the war. Every- 
 where educational work of the higher sort became disorganized. 
 Great colleges and universities became unproductive and no longer 
 provided fresh supplies of men with special training and equip- 
 ment for leadership. The nation was confronted with the danger 
 of educational bankruptcy. The error of the policy that depleted 
 the colleges and universities and did not keep up the supply of 
 men and women within them, came home with disastrous results. 
 
 Today England is seeking to rehabihtate her educational in- 
 stitutions, particularly for more effective technical and scientific 
 training. She has recently set aside $25,000,000 for this pur- 
 pose, and she is leaving nothing undone to encouraige young men 
 and women to fill up the vacant college halls. The EngHsh war 
 specialists who came to the United States recently to advise with 
 the president and his cabinet were strong in their representations 
 that to let the colleges be emptied, or even to operate on anything 
 less than at full capacity would be harmful. 
 
 In view of the nations great need for educated leadership, the pre- 
 sumption is fair that young men and women who are qualified should 
 go to college to fill that need. The burden of proof is on those who 
 doubt the wisdom of going to college this year to prove that any par- 
 ticular young man or woman should not go. 
 
 How the Question Must Be Answered 
 
 T^HIS question of going to college must, of course, get some- 
 what different consideration as circumstances vary. 
 The young man who has been called to the colors for im- 
 mediate service can make but one reply. 
 
The young man who is of military age, but whose service is 
 not to begin at once, may feel that the question is settled foi him 
 in much the same way and that he should abandon plans for 
 further education. But this is to be said concerning his situation: 
 He may better fit himself for a position of responsibility and 
 larger service in the army or navy while he is in college than out 
 of it, especially if he has already completed one or more years 
 of college work. For him it is the part of wisdom to go on with 
 college, particularly if it be in a technical or scientific institution 
 and if opportunity be given also to take military drill and study 
 military science. There is in sight now a serious shortage of 
 men who are qualified by education and training for leadership 
 in the great army that is under process of organization. Even 
 if he expects to be called in six months from now, the young man 
 in this group will profit if he spends that six months in college, 
 fitting himself for the largest use of .his abilities. 
 
 The young man who is not of military age, but just out of 
 high school or other preparatory school, will find no better way 
 to prepare himself for the tasks that lie ahead of him than thru 
 college training. He may, of course, render some service in agri- 
 culture or the other industries, or in other useful employment, but 
 if he is qualified for college and is ready to make the most of 
 what it offers, his place is there. In the long run he is likely to 
 be of greater service to his country if he goes to college than if 
 he stays out, and his own individual interests will also profit more. 
 
 The young woman in college should by all means complete 
 her work; she will face new duties and responsibilities when she 
 comes out and for them she will need every possible bit of prep- 
 aration. The young woman just ready to enter college likewise 
 should go on with her college education; if ever the home could 
 spare her to fit herself for the greatest possible usefulness, it is 
 in these times that are demanding more of women. 
 
 Educators Are Unanimons for Keeping 
 Colleges Filled 
 
 T^HESE different questions were considered in a meeting of 
 representative educators from 180 colleges and universities 
 with the result that this declaration was unanimously adopted: 
 
 "]Ve therefore believe, firsl, that all ^oung men belov) the age of 
 liability to selective draft and those not recommended for special 
 service, i»ho can avail themselves of the opportunities offered by our 
 colleges, should be urged to do so in order that i/ielj maj) be able 
 
lo Tender the most effective service^ both during the full period of 
 the Tx>ar and in the trying limes Jvhich will follow its close. 
 
 "Students pursuing technical courses, such as medicine, agriculture 
 and engineering, are rendering or are to render, thru the continuance 
 of their training, service more valuable and efficient than if they were 
 to enroll in military or naval service at once." 
 
 The United States Bureau of Education at Washington, after 
 careful consultation with the president and those who with him 
 are entrusted with the direction of the nation's affairs in this crisis, 
 recently issued the following suggestions for those who are de- 
 bating this question of college or no college: 
 
 "The number of students in colleges, universities and technical 
 schools should increase rather than diminish. Many of the older 
 and upper classmen will volunteer for some branch of the military 
 service, but all young men below the age of liability lo selective draft 
 and those not recommended for special service should be urged lo 
 remain and tal^e full advantage of the opportunities offered by the 
 colleges, universities and technical schools, to the end thai they may 
 be able lo render the most effective service in the later years of the 
 war end the times of need that will follow. 
 
 "Practically all women students should remain and all boys and 
 girls graduating from high schools should be urged to enter college, 
 technical school or normal school, 
 
 "All students should be made lo understand that it is their duly to 
 give to their country and to the world the best and fullest possible 
 measure of service, and that both will need more than they will get 
 of that high type of service which only men and women of the best 
 education and training can give. Patriotism and the desire to serve 
 humanity may require of these young men and Women the exercise 
 of that very high type of self-restraint that will ^eep them to their 
 tasl^s of preparation until the lime comes when they can render service 
 which cannot be rendered by others. 
 
 "No college, university or technical school that can avoid il should 
 permit its faculty or student body lo be scattered or its energies to be 
 dissipated. All should redouble their energies and concentrate them 
 on those things that will be of the most service during the progress 
 of the war and which will prepare their students for the most effective 
 service of the country and of the world when the war is over." 
 
 IOWA STATE COLLEGE IN 
 WAR TIMES 
 
 A LL that may be said in behalf of going to college takes on 
 ^^ special weight when applied to technical education and the 
 work of such institutions as Iowa State College of Agriculture 
 and Mechanic Arts. Its courses in Agriculture, Engineering, 
 
Home Economics, Industrial Science and Veterinary Medicine 
 link up directly with the coimtry's pressing needs, now during the 
 war, and in the years of rebuilding that will follow. Its training 
 has to do directly with increased production, with conservation, 
 with construction, and with the preparation of men and women 
 for leadership in industrial, technical and scientific fields. This 
 is a time when technical and scientific knowledge and skill are at 
 a premium, and when young men and young women with the kind 
 of education offered in a technical institution like that at Ames 
 will find larger opportunities for useful and profitable service than 
 ever before. 
 
 Besides, Iowa State College maintains thoro courses in mili- 
 tary drill and tactics, in which young men may qualify themselves 
 for responsible positions in the army, if they are called to that 
 kind of service. Technical training linked with military training 
 fits a student for the greatest usefulness to the nation in war times. 
 The military training is thoro enough to qualify students for the 
 examinations for commissions. For the women, Iowa State Col- 
 lege conducts special Red Cross work, sanctioned by the Red 
 Cross authorities. 
 
 In general, Iowa State College has already modified much of 
 its instruction to meet new conditions and when many students 
 were compelled last spring to ask to be excused from college to 
 take up urgent work on the farm or in other lines of production, 
 they were excused on terms that will enable them to make up un- 
 completed work on a favorable basis. In the coming year such 
 further modifications as to studies and adjustments as to periods 
 of attendance and the making up of work will be made as cir- 
 cumstances may demand. The college appreciates the need of 
 trained men and women in actual service and will co-operate in 
 every possible way to get them into service when they are ready 
 for it. 
 
 AGRICULTURE 
 
 TTHE courses in agriculture at Iowa State College are intended 
 to prepare young men either for the operation and supervision 
 of farms, or for some line of work closely related to agriculture. 
 
 Farming itself demands scientific training more than ever, be- 
 cause the farmer of today faces many more difficulties and larger 
 responsibilities than any preceding generation of farmers. He 
 must work with land that is many times as valuable as the land 
 
his father occupied, while at the same time it has lost much of its 
 original fertility. He must fight new and more destructive in- 
 sect pssts and plant and live stock diseases. He faces new prob- 
 lems m management and marketing. He must deal with wholly 
 different social and economic conditions. He cannot continue to 
 meet these things successfully except with scientific knowledge 
 linked with practical experience. 
 
 Agricultural education also prepares men for a long list of at- 
 tractive vocations closely related to agriculture. With more vo- 
 cational training in the schools, the demand for teachers of agri- 
 culture has become greater than the supply. Increasing agricul- 
 tural problems have increased the work of agricultural experiment 
 stations and research laboratories so that many new positions for 
 investigators have developed. The better organization of agri- 
 cultural interests is calling for a host of county agricultural agents 
 and co-operative leaders and managers. Business and industry 
 recognize the need of adapting many of their activities to agricul- 
 ture and they are calling for men for banks, business houses and 
 factories who have the agricultural viewpoint. Journalism is of- 
 fering new opportunities to a limited number of special qualified 
 men with the agricultural viewpoint, while in many other fields the 
 same situation rules. 
 
 It is literally beyond the ability of all the agricultural colleges 
 combined to supply the call for men with their training. In Iowa 
 alone 8,000 new farmers must be recruited every year to replace 
 tho?e who naturally drop out of farming, to say nothing of hun- 
 dreds of agriculturally trained men needed for related activities. 
 
 Th^ courses in agriculture at Iowa State College deal with 
 e'"eiy phase of the subject: 
 
 Animal husbandty Farm management 
 
 Dairy husbandry Horlicullure 
 
 Poultry husbandry Forestry 
 
 Farm crops Landscape gardening 
 
 Soils Agricultural engineering 
 
 Dairy manufacturing Agricultural education and 
 
 Agricultural journalism 
 
 Every four or five-year collegiate course in agriculture leads to 
 a degree. It includes not only the necessary technical subjects, 
 but enough general and scientific instruction to give the student a 
 well-rounded education and make of him not only a capable 
 worker, but also a man able to take a leading place in his com- 
 
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munity. A two-y«ar collegiate course may be elected entitling 
 the student to a certificate. 
 
 A decision to enter college for training in agriculture may not 
 always be reached now without difficulty, because of the feeling 
 that a boy with interest in farming is needed in productive work 
 on the farm. He is of value there, no doubt, but after all the 
 question is one of relative values and usefulness. Is it more im- 
 portant that a particular boy of marked intelligence and ambition 
 should continue at a hired man's work, or is it more important 
 that he be trained to scientific agriculture and leadership so that 
 he may in a few years be a supervisor, a manager or a teacher or 
 investigator in agriculture? If he stays out of college, he will 
 still be a useful man, but will he serve the nation as well as he 
 might with a special education? 
 
 Upon this point the United States Bureau of Education re- 
 cently made this statement: 
 
 "In agricultural colleges special intensive courses should he given 
 to prepare teachers, directors and supervisors of agricullure and prac- 
 tical farm superintendents. It should be remembered that the scien- 
 tific l^noTvledge and the supervising sl^ill of these men and their ahilii^ 
 to increase the productive capacity of thousands of men of less 
 \nory>ledge and sl^ill are far more valuable than the Tvorlf they can do 
 as farm hands. The total number of agricultural students in all col- 
 leges is only a fraction more than one-tenth of one per cent of the 
 total number of persons engaged in agriculture, or about thirteen in 
 10.000 — not enough to affect materially the agricultural production of 
 the country by their labor, hut enough to affect it immensely by their 
 directive power when their college courses have been finished. 
 
 ENGINEERING 
 
 r NGINEERING, like agriculture, is close to the big work of 
 the world, both in times of peace and of war, and therefore 
 the courses in engineering at Iowa State College have a'ways been 
 kept close to the practical needs. The instruction offered covers 
 the following general fields: 
 
 Agricultural engineering Civil engineering 
 
 Architectural engineering Electrical engineering 
 
 Ceramics Mechanical engineering 
 
 Chemical engineering Mining engineering 
 
The courses give the thoro technical training necessary for high- 
 grade professional engineering work and they cover both four and 
 five-year periods. The purely technical subjects receive the nec- 
 essary emphasis, but enough general instruction is also given to 
 insure the well-balanced development necessary for highest pro- 
 fessional success. For its work in engineering Iowa State College 
 has numerous buildings, shops and laboratories, all suitably 
 equipped. There has recently been added a splendid steam and 
 gas laboratory and a new trauisportation plant and laboratory for 
 instruction in railway and automobile engineering, the only struc- 
 tures of their kind west of the Mississippi. 
 
 As in the case of agriculture, the young man who looks toward 
 an engineering career may question whether he should take up 
 or remain in actual production in some industry or tcJce up his 
 education for a higher class of work. To him it may be said 
 that the great need of the country now and in the future is not 
 for men to do the ordinary tasks in the industries, but to super- 
 vise and direct big jobs of construction, big shops and factories, 
 railroads and the like. Boys who have looked forward to careers 
 as engineers are certain to find greater opportunities for usefulness 
 if they go ahead with their plans instead of sacrificing them; stu- 
 dents who have partly completed courses are not unlikely to 
 render the country greater service by finishing them and tbus 
 qualifying for leadership in public or private service. 
 
 The need for trained men in engineering is reflected in France's 
 recent call to America for 1 0,000 skilled engineers. That is 
 but the first of many calls from home and abroad. On his return 
 from Washington, where he made a study of the situation and 
 secured the opinion of leading men. Dean A. Marston of the 
 engineering division of Iowa State College made this statement: 
 
 "Our country is facing a great shortage of ivell-trained engineers. 
 We are receiving many times as many calls for men as n>e can supply. 
 Other schools report the same condition. The War is drawing many 
 engineers into military service. Foreign countries are experiencing 
 even a worse shortage of engineers than the United States. Many 
 graduate engineers are needed, both to carry on the war and to help 
 build up the industries of the country after the War, 
 
 "President IVilson, United States Commissioner of Education Clax- 
 ton, Secretary of War Balder and General Wm, M. Blac}(, chief of 
 engineers, U. S. army, urge that high school graduates and others 
 prepared for college ought by all means enter college this fall as a 
 patriotic duty to the country. The situation in engineering is such 
 that there is a special need for Very large freshman classes in the 
 different engineering schools." 
 
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HOME ECONOMICS 
 
 OOME ECONOMICS education has been maintained at 
 Iowa State College longer than at any other land grant in- 
 stitution. From the beginning it has put emphasis on homemak- 
 ing and sought to prepare women for complete living, which, Her- 
 bert Spencer says, is the function which education has to dis- 
 charge. 
 
 For women, preparation for such complete Hving must include 
 a study of household administration and management, both private 
 and institutional households; of foods, textiles and other materials 
 and their production and use; of hygiene, sanitation and econom- 
 ics as they concern both home and community; of the care of 
 children and their education; of the social and economic status 
 of women, and of many other things affecting home and com- 
 munity life. These subjects, therefore, are given the principal 
 place in the instruction of women at Ames. If the student ex- 
 pects to live in the country, she may lit herself more fully for her 
 life there by taking some agricultural subjects or by enrolling as 
 a student for a combination course in home economics and agri- 
 culture. 
 
 Education along such lines takes on especial value in these times 
 of world upset. It will be of equal value in the years following 
 the war when the world seeks to restore itself. "The woman who 
 handles the food supply in the home is equal in importance to the 
 man who handles the gun on the battlefield," writes J. Ogden 
 Armour, food authority. Altho women remain at home in time 
 of national trouble like this, they and the homes they make con- 
 stitute the real bulwark of national life. Following the war, the 
 call upon women will be greater than ever for a homemaking that 
 will give the nation men and women of strength, character, cour- 
 age, ability and skill to restore emd rebuild a world torn down. 
 Women are, of course, called upon in such times of readjustment 
 as these, to undertake memy other labors, but the nation looks 
 to them to do this great work of homemaking first of all, because 
 that is the very foundation of national life. 
 
 Outside the home, women treiined in home economics will find 
 very broad opportunity in the field of teaching, the demand for 
 thoro home economics exceeding the supply. Extension work, 
 county supervisorships and home demonstratorships in cities are 
 offering new and profitable fields of labor. Playground super- 
 vision asks for women with training such as Iowa State College 
 
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gives. Hospitals and other public institutions want dietitians and 
 household managers with home economics training. Municipali- 
 ties are employing women as inspectors. In the business field 
 home economics graduates are finding openings as managers of 
 cafeterias, tea rooms, hotels, laundries, or as experts in textiles, 
 advisors in home furnishing, and managers or owners of estab- 
 lishments catering to the clothing needs of women and children. 
 
 The home economics division at Iowa State College comprises 
 three departments, domestic art, domestic science and physical 
 culture, each offering its own special work. Domestic art in- 
 cludes instruction in textiles and clothing, applied art and the his- 
 tory of art, as they concern the home and its decoration and fur- 
 nishing. Domestic science includes instruction in foods, hygiene, 
 nutrition and dietetics, household management and training in the 
 teaching of these subjects. The department of physical culture 
 concerns itself, first, with the well-being and correct physical de- 
 velopment of the young women of the college, and second, it 
 offers instruction to equip them to teach others. 
 
 Four different collegiate courses are offered by the home eco- 
 nomics division: A four-year course with emphasis on domestic 
 art; a four-year course with emphasis on domestic science; a four- 
 year combined course in home economics and agriculture; a five- 
 year combined course in home economics and industrial science. 
 Graduate work is also offered in addition. 
 
 The technical instruction within the Home Economics division 
 is supported by the work of other divisions of the college. The 
 Industrial Science division provides instruction along general lines 
 and in the foundation sciences. The Agricultured division, thru 
 its department of agricultural education, provides the instruction 
 in the theories and practice of teaching, while other departments 
 offer such courses in agriculture as suit the needs of women. The 
 Engineering division contributes instruction along such architec- 
 tural and mechanical engineering lines as are of value to a woman 
 in her home work, in the teaching of manual training, or in any 
 other vocation she may choose to follow. 
 
 INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE 
 
 /^OURSES in the Industrial Science division are offered, first, 
 
 to furnish instruction in the basic sciences that underlie the 
 
 various industries and professions taught in the other divisions of 
 
 the college, agriculture, engineering, home economics amd veter- 
 
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inary medicine. But they are also offered to give opportunity to 
 the student to become a specialist in some one phase of a science 
 as it applies to industry. 
 
 For example, the student may want to become an expert in steel 
 chemistry. He must then give more attention to chemistry than 
 is possible in an engineering course and he gets an opportunity 
 to do that in a specialized course in chemical engineering in the 
 Industrial Science division. The student of agriculture learns 
 something of important insect pests in his agricultural course, but 
 he will find opportunity to fit himself for a specialist in applied 
 entomology without the study along that line offered in the Indus- 
 trial Science division. Courses in industrial science which lead 
 to a degree are planned, therefore, to allow a student to go fur- 
 ther in a science or group of sciences, and still leave him time to 
 take such technical and practical work as will help him to know 
 the apphcation of science to the problems of the industries. 
 
 The Industrial Science division offers four-year courses in the 
 following lines: 
 
 Major bacteriology Major mathematics 
 
 Applied botany Major militar}) science and tactics 
 
 Major botany Major physics 
 
 Applied chemistry Veterinary anatomy 
 
 Chemical engineering Veterinary pathology 
 
 Major chemistry Veterinary physiology 
 
 Major economics Major zoology 
 
 Applied entomology Apiculture 
 
 Applied geology 
 
 In addition to the four-year courses, the Industrial Science di- 
 vision offers in co-operation with the divisions of Agriculture, En- 
 gineering, Home Economics and Veterinary Medicine, five and 
 six-year combined courses leading to the degrees of B. S. A. and 
 B. S. : B. S. in Engineering and B. S. ; B. S. in H. E. and B. 
 S.;orB. S. and D. V. M. 
 
 For those who have had adequate training in any one of these 
 fields, there is a real demand. The various experiment stations, 
 the specialized industries, the federal government, the progressive 
 high schools and the land grant and technical colleges everywhere 
 are demanding scientists, men with fundamental and abundant 
 scientific training, who have had an opportunity to specialize. 
 
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VETERINARY MEDICINE 
 
 "IT" ETERINARY medicine has come into a place close to 
 ' human medicine in social and economic importance. It is 
 no longer concerned solely with the health of domestic animals, 
 important as that work is. Nor is its field now limited to the 
 larger work of safeguarding the meat supply. Today its scope 
 includes also the study of diseases common to both beast and man 
 and the prevention of their spread from one to the other. In the 
 great fight for the protection of public health against tuberculosis, 
 typhoid, parasitic infections and other plagues, veterinary medi- 
 cine has a notable part. Its methods are scientific and its prac- 
 tice is professional. 
 
 New and larger opportunities are continually opening up for 
 veterinarians in private practice, in government service, in experi- 
 mental work, in educational fields, in municipal health and in- 
 spection service, and in the army. Without exception, the grad- 
 uates find profitable locations in useful service immediately on 
 going out. The scope of the animal industry of the United States, 
 with its investment of more than $6,000,000,000, gives assur- 
 ance that the future of the profession is safe. 
 
 Four-year courses leading to the degree of Doctor of Veter- 
 inary Medicine are offered. In addition, there are combined six- 
 year courses with either the division of Industrial Science or the 
 department of animal husbandry, both leading to a B. Sc. and a 
 D. V. M. degree. Each year a special course for practitioners 
 is held. 
 
 The instruction is given by five educational departments, each 
 in charge of a man of broad experience in his particular line. 
 These departments are anatomy, pathology and bacteriology, 
 physiology and pharmacology, surgery, and medicine. The col- 
 lege also mciintains a department of research in animal diseases and 
 extensive biological laboratories. Students in veterinary medicine 
 are given opportunity to take work in other departments and di- 
 visions of the college in order that the course may be well rounded 
 out. 
 
 The new buildings at Iowa State College devoted exclusively 
 to veterinary medicine represent an investment of $200,000. They 
 rank among the largest and most modern of their kind. Their 
 equipment is complete for instruction in every phase of a veter- 
 inarian's work and clinical material is abundant. 
 
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The war has brought a new demand upon the veterinary pro- 
 fession, both at home in increased effort in food conservation and 
 in the army as food inspectors and sanitatians, as well as in the 
 regular veterinary service. Recent legislation has made the vet- 
 erinarian a commissioned officer in the army, beginning at second 
 lieutenant and rising as high as major. The United States gov- 
 ernment on the first call sent out, asked for 1 ,000 veterinarians, 
 or about one-twentieth of the number in the entire country. Other 
 calls are sure to come asking for more. It is evident that the 
 demand will be greater than the supply, not only during the war, 
 but several years after the war. Furthermore, the government 
 has said that it does not want half-trained veterinarians or those 
 who have not yet graduated. Every young man who is inclined 
 toward taking a veterinary course will be doing his patriotic duty 
 by entering college and preparing himself as rapidly as possible 
 for this definite and needed service. 
 
 ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS 
 
 Entrance to Iowa Stale College is based on the standard for the 
 three stale educational institutions. Applicants for admission to the 
 freshman class should be at least 16 years of age and they must pre- 
 sent at least 15 units of high school xvorl^. An entrance unit is de- 
 fined as 36 weelfs of high school t>orlf in one subject of study, with 
 five class periods per weel(, each not less than 40 minutes in length; 
 each laboratory period should be at least 85 minutes in length. Of 
 the 15 entrance units, certain are required and the remainder may be 
 elected. 
 
 Information concerning the slightly different requirements for ad- 
 mission to the different divisions of the college may be secured by ap- 
 plication to The Registrar, on the blanli mailing card on inside of 
 bacli cover, or by letter. 
 
 "It is not wise to lose sight of the fact that the country has a future 
 as Well as a present. . . . The regular worl( of all our colleges 
 should be maintained with all possible vigor and parents should be 
 encouraged now more than ever to give their children the advantage of 
 a college education." — Editorial, New Yorl; Evening Post, 
 
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TWO YEAR SUB-COLLEGIATE 
 COURSES 
 
 For those mho are nol prepared lo enter the regular four or five- 
 year collegiate courses, tTvo-^ear Vocational courses are offered in ag- 
 riculture, engineering and home economics. They are open to young 
 men who are at least 17 years of age, and young ivomen who are at 
 least 18 years of age, who have completed at least eighth grade Worf( 
 in the public schools, or the equivalent. Graduates of accredited high 
 schools will enroll in the collegiate courses. 
 
 In agriculture the studies of farm crops and live stoclg comprise the 
 foundation and frameworl( of the two-year course. Around these are 
 woven instruction on other lines of agriculture, and also instruction in 
 such subjects as English, arithmetic and history. There is also a one- 
 year course in dairying. 
 
 In engineering there are three special lines of instruction: 
 
 1. Course for structural draftsmen and building superintendents, 
 
 2. Course for mechanical draftsmen and mechanicians. 
 
 3. Course for electrical worl^ers and stationary engineers. 
 
 A special part time course is also offered to men and boys engaged 
 in telephone wor}(. The first group in this coarse will begin worl( in 
 September ; the second in January. 
 
 The instruction in home economics in the two-year course is planned 
 to meet the very practical needs of young Women who want special 
 training in meeting home problems. It does not train them for teach- 
 ing. Food study, cookery, sewing, dressmalfing and design tal(e up 
 the greater part of the two years, tho other subjects of domestic and 
 general education are ta\en up. 
 
 Special circulars of information concerning these two-year courses 
 may be secured by addressing The Registrar. 
 
 COLLEGE CALENDAR 
 
 For the year 1917-1918, all courses of instruction will begin 
 Wednesday, September 12, at 7:40 a. m. 
 
 Prior lo the beginning of class wort(, two days have been set aside 
 for entrance examinations, Thursday and Friday, September 7 and 8. 
 
 Registration and classification days come on Monday and Tuesday, 
 September 10 and II. All students are expected to report Thursday. 
 
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USE THIS BLANK 
 
 // you roanl more complete informalion about the courses offered 
 at Ior»a Slate College, fdl out the hlanl( 'oclon>. 
 
 , 1917. 
 
 To the Registrar, 
 
 Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. 
 Dear Sir: — 
 
 I am interested in the instruction offered by Iowa State Col- 
 lege, particularly along the line checked below: 
 
 COLLEGIATE COURSES 
 (Check subject you are iruterested in.) 
 Agriculture Industrial Science 
 
 Engineering Home Economics Veterinary Medicine 
 
 NON-COLLEGIATE COURSES 
 Agriculture Home Economics Engineering 
 
 Please send me more complete information about the courses 
 checked. I ^ not a graduate of a high school. I graduated 
 
 from the high school. 
 
 Very truly yours. 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
UBRARY OF CONGRESS 
 
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