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MASSACHUSETTS 
 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 
 BULLETIN 
 
 AMHERST. MASS 
 
 Volume VIII Wurnbei $ 
 
 SEPTEMBER, 1916 
 
 Published six times 8 >>ear b^ the college 
 January, February, March, May, September, October 
 
 Entered ns second class matter at the Post Oflice, 
 
 Amherst. Mass. 
 
THE DINING HALL 
 
 The 
 
 Massachusetts Agricultural College: 
 
 Offers a four-year course of study leading to 
 the degree of Bachelor of Science. 
 
 Is open to men and women who have com- 
 pleted a four years’ high school course, and 
 who can satisfactorily meet the entrance 
 requirements. 
 
 Is open to unclassified students not candi- 
 dates for a degree. 
 
 Provides a general education, at the same 
 time allowing specialized work in one of 
 seventeen major departments. 
 
 Had a registration of 608 students in 1 Ola- 
 1916. 
 
 H as one of the most beautiful and attractive 
 campuses of any college in America. 
 
 Possesses excellent equipment in the shape of 
 buildings, laboratories, lecture rooms and 
 apparatus. 
 
 Comprises over 600 acres in farm, orchards, 
 campus and experimental grounds. 
 
 Is recognized in athletics and other inter- 
 collegiate activities. 
 
 Charges no tuition to residents of the state. 
 Expenses are moderate. 
 
 Provides courses of study in twenty-seven 
 teaching departments. 
 
 Requires military drill and tactics apart from 
 the prescribed course. 
 
 Is not suited to all men, and all men are not 
 fitted for it. 
 
 Requires a high grade of scholarship. 
 
 Is not an agricultural trade school, but a real 
 college. 
 
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THE CROSS WALK 
 
 Why Go to College ? 
 
 |HE statement has been made that 
 the strength of our nation lies in the 
 fact that every boy aspires to rise 
 above the station of his father, and 
 by virtue of our democratic opportunity is able 
 to do so. But boys of college age are not in 
 demand to-day in the industrial world in any 
 position which gives them a chance to grow. To 
 be sure they can tend spindles in a cotton mill, 
 they can drive a grocery wagon, they can run 
 an elevator. But these are not steps to advance- 
 ment. “They are steps on a treadmill, not steps 
 on a ladder. A boy may rise from them, but he 
 cannot rise by them.” Yet does it pay to send 
 boys to college? Is the game worth the candle? 
 Can you truthfully assent to that contemptuous 
 notice placed by Horace Greeley in his news- 
 paper office: “No college graduate or other 
 horned cattle need apply”? 
 
 “An education is the safest investment; pays 
 the highest interest; is the most readily convert- 
 ed into cash; never depreciates in value; never 
 suffers from taxation; is never in danger from 
 thieves; never ends in a lawsuit; is a gain for all 
 eternity.” A college training affords an op- 
 portunity, not only for the acquirement of 
 knowledge, but also for the matching of that 
 knowledge against real problems. Definite good 
 
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EAST EXPERIMENT STATION 
 
 is derived from new adjustments. A college 
 man gets out of himself into the lives of others. 
 The college brings together ideas and actions. 
 
 The values of a college training are varied, 
 but enriching. A graduate from the Colorado 
 School of Alines claims he got “a vision of life 
 work instead of a job.” Another from the 
 University of Louisiana maintains that he was 
 brought to “a realization that I was worth as 
 much as the average man.” A Boston Univer- 
 sity alumnus makes this statement; “When I 
 entered I regarded it (college education) as a 
 process of instilling facts in a young person’s 
 mind; when I graduated I knew this was a very 
 small part, merely a means to an end, — the de- 
 velopment of personality.” From the Univer- 
 sity of Georgia comes this confession; “a self 
 unfoldment, a diversity of interests in life, a 
 growth of ideals, of purposes and of judgment; 
 strong convictions and friendships.” 
 
 True, a great deal may be said against a col- 
 lege education, but this fact remains that, “If 
 a college man has used the opportunities offered 
 by the faculty, he has acquired a wide knowledge 
 of history and a broad view of public affairs. 
 If he has utilized the opportunities offered by 
 his fellow students, he has acquired the demo- 
 cratic spirit, has gotten a grip on public opinion, 
 and has had considerable experience in dealing 
 with a large variety of men. All these things 
 
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ON THE RIFLE RANGE 
 
 give him an advantage in the race, and statistics 
 show that he is making good use of them.” 
 
 The Significance of 
 An Agricultural Education 
 
 “The powers of the American college to de- 
 velop individual initiative and leadership have 
 been decidedly enhanced in recent years.” The 
 characteristics of college courses are determined 
 by two things; 1st the character of the man to 
 be educated; 2nd by the kind of world in which 
 the man is to live and work. There has arisen a 
 special class of men ambitious for careers in 
 connection with agriculture. The potentialities 
 of agriculture are increasing; the opportuni- 
 ties are greater than ever, and the demand for 
 men to serve in its varied and important fields 
 is beyond the capacity of the agricultural col- 
 leges to supply. Hence, the modern agricultural 
 college. 
 
 What am I best fitted for? Have you ever 
 satisfactorily answered that question? Isn’t it 
 possible that you might find your forte in one 
 of the several agricultural vocations? The 
 Massachusetts Agricultural College furnishes 
 excellent training in nearly all of the agricultural 
 vocations. Do not be possessed with the idea 
 that because a man goes to an agricultural col- 
 lege he is doomed to a life of corn-hoeing, weed- 
 pulling and wood-sawing. The business of 
 
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SOCIAL UNION ROOM 
 
 farming and its underlying sciences make the 
 agricultural business the greatest industry on 
 earth. Specialists are demanded in every 
 branch. The problems of food production; 
 making the farm “pay”; farm business and man- 
 agement; advantageous buying and selling; 
 economic problems; social and moral problems; 
 engineering problems; educational problems, 
 and the fields of scientific investigation demand 
 brainy, alert and ambitious college men. 
 
 Opportunities in agriculture lie along the 
 lines of practical farming, stock raising, dairying, 
 poultry farming and farm management. Then, 
 too, this college training fits men, who do not care 
 for practical farming, for employment in gov- 
 ernment service, in other agricultural colleges 
 and experiment stations, rural engineering and 
 other agricultural lines. 
 
 The opportunities in horticulture are also 
 large. Practical fruit growing, practical flori- 
 culture, landscape architecture, forestry and 
 market-gardening offer exceptional opportunities. 
 Teaching, research work and experimentation in 
 these same subjects afford additional openings. 
 
 Particularly in the sciences the chance for 
 teachers, research workers and experiment sta- 
 tion men is large. Government and state posi- 
 tions as chemists, botanists, entomologists and 
 bacteriologists are open to the well trained man. 
 
 It is gradually being realized that the eco- 
 nomic and social side of the agricultural business 
 must receive more attention. For men with the 
 
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A STUDENT’S ROOM 
 
 right bent and training the solution of these prob- 
 lems offers work in a real, practical and vital field. 
 
 The new field of rural journalism is beginning 
 to afford promising opportunities for men with 
 literary and editorial abilities. Rural journal- 
 ism is the application of journalistic principles 
 in getting and suitably presenting material 
 adapted to the non-urban rather than to the ur- 
 ban or metropolitan reader. Developing the 
 literary tastes and molding the opinions of the 
 rural population is a most influential task of 
 country editors. 
 
 Opportunities for men to teach in any phase 
 of the work offered in the agricultural college are 
 always plentiful. Men trained for extension 
 service work, for farm bureau positions, and 
 county advisors are in demand. Men with an 
 inclination towards business professions have an 
 ample field for devoting their talent to the appli- 
 cation of business principles to agriculture. 
 
 The object of the course of study at the 
 Massachusetts Agricultural College is to give a 
 man a good general education, and at the same 
 time allow him to specialize in any of the de- 
 partments in which a major course is offered. 
 Its graduates hold positions of trust and respon- 
 sibility as practical farmers, fruit growers and 
 landscape architects; as college presidents, ex- 
 periment station directors, extension service 
 directors, college professors and instructors; as 
 teachers in colleges and high schools; as gov- 
 ernment scientists, investigators and experts. 
 
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SOUTH COLLEGE DORMITORY 
 
 The Money Value of a 
 College Education 
 
 “Every farm boy has within his reach a col- 
 lege education. The acquirement of such an 
 education will greatly increase the value of the 
 young man as a citizen, as a business man, as a 
 leader. He may farm successfully without such 
 education, but he will farm more successfully 
 with an education in a college of agriculture than 
 without it. 
 
 “Farm boys who are looking forward to work 
 as teachers of agriculture, investigation, county 
 agricultural agents, service in the United States 
 Department of Agriculture, or similar positions 
 must have a good training in a college of agricul- 
 ture. The demand for well trained men of 
 ability is greater than the supply. 
 
 “It is a most serious and fundamental mis- 
 take for a young man to regard the time spent 
 in careful preparation and training as wasted 
 time. Money invested in thorough preparation 
 and earnest training will yield a larger income 
 on the investment than a similar sum in land, 
 farm machinery or live stock. All farm manage- 
 ment surveys show that the educated farmer has 
 a larger income and a better living. At the 
 Missouri experiment station an investigation 
 of the incomes of 554 farmers showed that the 
 educated farmer’s income was 71.4 per cent 
 larger than that of the untrained farmer. 
 Preparedness is a good motto for the farm boy.’’ 
 
 P(ujr eii/ht 
 
THE TROPHY ROOM 
 
 “An investigation conducted by the United 
 States Department of Agriculture shows that 
 the labor income of farmers having a college ed- 
 ucation is $495 per year greater than that of 
 farmers having only a common school education. 
 In 40 years the college education would increase 
 the normal earning power of the farmer by 
 40 x $495 =$19,800. In other words each of the 
 eight years in high school and college is worth 
 $2475 to the farmer.” 
 
 “One large State institution gives the average 
 income of the graduates of its agricultural de- 
 partment, five years out, as $2028. Another 
 institution, concerning the salaries of its agricul- 
 tural graduates, says that those who have been 
 out two to three years receive $1450, four to 
 seven years $1800, eight to fifteen years $2250, 
 sixteen to thirty-seven years $8800.” 
 
 Requirements for Admission 
 
 Students are admitted to the freshman class 
 either upon certificate or upon examination. 
 No diploma from the secondary school will be 
 accepted. 
 
 The applicant for admission must be at least 
 sixteen years old, and must present to the Regis- 
 trar proper testimonials of good character. 
 
 All application blanks for admission either by 
 examination or certificate may be obtained from 
 the registrar. Blank form for certification are 
 sent to school principals or superintendents only. 
 
 Certificates will be received from those 
 schools of New England which have been ap- 
 
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ON THE FARM 
 
 proved by the New England College Entrance 
 Certificate Board. 
 
 Credentials of the Board of Regents of the 
 State of New York are accepted. 
 
 Fourteen units must be offered for admission. 
 The term unit means the equivalent of at least 
 four recitations a week per school year. 
 
 Certificates to be accepted must present at 
 least three of the necessary fourteen credits. 
 
 Subjects lacking on examination (except for 
 the permitted number of conditions) must be 
 made up at the time of the examination for ad- 
 mission. Conditions to the amount of two 
 units will be allowed. 
 
 Unclassified Students 
 
 1. No entrance examinations required, but 
 applicants must furnish certificates showing that 
 they have completed a four years’ high school 
 course or its equivalent. 
 
 2. No applicant under twenty-one years of 
 age will be admitted as an unclassified student. 
 
 3. Every unclassified student must do all 
 the work of the courses elected, and take all ex- 
 aminations therein; must attain a grade of at 
 least 75%; must pass in at least two-thirds of 
 his work or he will be dropped from college. 
 
 Note: These regulations are subject to revision. 
 
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Why Not Be a Leader? 
 
 The term “college man” generally connotes 
 an individual of broad education and thorough 
 training. A college training brings with it re- 
 sponsibility. That responsibility assumes some 
 form of leadership. It is a leadership that comes 
 to the man of advanced knowledge and superior 
 advantages, who sees the needs of his time and 
 his community, and who exerts himself in behalf 
 of those needs. Every college man by virtue of 
 the advantages he is enjoying is expected to be a 
 leader, regardless of what college he attends or 
 what profession he enters or what community he 
 settles in. The fact that people know him to be 
 a college man stamps him as a person who is ex- 
 pected to produce results. 
 
 The college man has been accused of being 
 impracticable, that he is a dreamer of dreams 
 and not a doer of deeds, that he has no position 
 in the strenuous competition of life to-day. 
 Yet it is of the college man that things are ex- 
 pected. In all trades and professions of life, 
 in all enterprises of organization, in managerial 
 positions, in public office, and in institutions of 
 public service the trained man is demanded. 
 You should regard your prospective college ed- 
 ucation as a stepping stone to a dominant lead- 
 ership. 
 
 Why not prepare yourself to assume a com- 
 mand in rural affairs? Rural progress is checked 
 for the lack of trained leaders? The broadening 
 of country life, its growing complexities and ris- 
 ing standards are creating problems beyond the 
 reach of untrained leaders. “Well trained 
 doctors, ministers, teachers, et cetera, have a 
 great chance to-day in the country, because 
 their training finds unique appreciation for its 
 very rarity and efficiency; while every profes- 
 sion is foolishly overcrowded in the cities.” 
 
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A Public Service Institution 
 
 The Massachusetts Agricultural College 
 
 trains men for agricultural vocations and for 
 leadership, not only in their vocational pursuits, 
 but also in other activities of life. To ac- 
 complish these ends, the College offers instruc- 
 tion in Agriculture, Horticulture, the Sciences, 
 the Humanities and Rural Social Science. A 
 student is required to take certain prescribed 
 courses designed to insure him a general educa- 
 tion; he may then specialize in any one of the 
 following subjects: 
 
 Agriculture , 
 
 Agronomy , 
 
 Animal Husbandry , 
 Dairying , 
 
 Poultry Husbandry , 
 Floriculture , 
 
 Forestry, 
 
 Landscape Gardening , 
 Rural S* 
 
 Pomology, 
 
 Economic Botany, 
 Agricultural Chemistry, 
 Economic Entomology, 
 Microbiology, 
 
 Rural Journalism, 
 Agricultural Economics, 
 Agricultural Education, 
 d Science 
 
 The Graduate School presents an opportuni- 
 ty for advanced study in many of the subjects 
 enumerated above. 
 
 The demand for men trained at the Agricul- 
 tural College is constantly increasing, and the 
 vocational opportunities offered to these men 
 are attractive. 
 
 Tuition is free to residents of Massachusetts, 
 and the expenses are moderate. There are op- 
 portunities for the more needy students to earn 
 a portion of their expenses. 
 
 Are you interested in this institution which 
 trains men for effective service in a field of en- 
 deavor not yet overcrowded? 
 
 A catalog will be sent on application. 
 
 RALPH J. WATTS, 
 
 Secretary, 
 Amherst, Mass. 
 
 September, 19 lb. 
 
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