24 RECORD OF THE ALUMNI 



College courses, and was disappointed in that the standard was not 

 pushed up further at that time. With the hearty support of the 

 Faculty he kept up pressure on the point, until in the fall of 1912, 

 the Board of Regents raised the requirements to fifteen units. 

 During the winter of 1913, new courses based on this requirement 

 were formulated. The new requirements and courses were 

 approved by the new governing power, the Board of Administration, 

 and the College entered upon an era in which its students and 

 graduates will be on the basis used by all high-grade colleges. 

 This result must be credited almost entirely to the force, patience, 

 and tact of the president. 



Coincident with placing the College courses on a four-year 

 high school basis has been the organization of a School of Agri- 

 culture, with three-year courses in agriculture, mechanic arts, and 

 home economics, to which students are admitted from grammar and 

 county schools, and the work in which is accepted toward college 

 entrance. The patronage of this school, which opened September 

 16, 1913, has been most gratifying. 



The work in College Extension has developed continuously 

 and rapidly, until at the present time over twenty men and women 

 are constantly employed in this work. This includes Farmers' 

 Institutes, Demonstration Farming, Boys' and Girls' Meetings, 

 Movable Schools of Agriculture, School Campaigns, Agricultural 

 Trains, Exhibits at Fairs, assistance in Highway Engineering and in 

 Drainage and Irrigation Engineering, Movable Schools in Home 

 Economics, Girls' Home Economics Clubs, a Department of Study by 

 Correspondence, and the publication of a series of pamphlets under 

 the name of "Agricultural Education." 



It will be seen from the foregoing that the present administra- 

 tion is one that is advancing the College in all legitimate lines. In 

 addition to what has been stated, I think it may be fairly asserted 

 that the most characterizing feature of the administration is that 

 every opportunity is taken and many occasions made for putting 

 the College in connection with the large problems and large enter- 

 prises that affect the permanent welfare of the rural communities 

 This includes such subjects as co-operative buying and selling, rural 

 credits, the tenant system, problems of the rural church and ri^ral 

 life in general, conservation of agricultural resources and more 

 effective utilization of them, etc. The friends of President Waters 

 may rest assured that no matter when his administration ends, the 

 record which the College makes under his guidance will have been 

 one of marked progress. 



COURSES OF STUDY 



In 1863, the only course of study offered was in the classical 

 department. It extended over five years, the first being prepara- 



