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as  our  own  community  affords  instances  of  men  and  women 
educated  in  terms  of  practical  affairs  of  life  who  are  taking 
their  place  in  the  community  in  respect  to  its  progress  and 
development.  The  main  difficulty  that  confronts  this  point  of 
view  is  the  reduction  of  these  practical  subjects  to  pedagog- 
ical form  in  order  to  give  them  teaching  and  training  value. 
When  this  is  done,  students  may  be  trained  by  the  subjects  of 
engines,  soils  and  wheat,  as  well  as  by  Greek  Philosophy  and 
Mathematics. 
In  the  third  place  the  College  fosters  an  education  for  ser- 
vice. This  ideal  is  the  impulse  and  mainspring  of  a useful 
life.  Much  may  be  said  in  favor  of  an  education  for  culture  or 
an  education  for  scholarship,  but  when  these  motives  are  com- 
bined with  an  ardent  desire  for  service,  the  Territory  will 
receive  adequate  returns  for  its  expenditures.  The  spirit  is 
manifested  by  many  of  our  young  people  and  is  promoted  by 
some  of  our  educational  institutions,  that  a college  education 
should  lift  one  above  work,  that  overalls  and  apron  are  marks 
of  rank  that  has  been  left  behind  and  is  to  be  looked  down 
upon.  But  if  a college  education  does  not  fit  one  for  the 
harder  tasks  of  life  and  more  of  them  it  has  not  manifested  its 
highest  ideals. 
In  order  to  attain  to  this  ideal  the  student  must  be  educated 
in  terms  of  the  things  with  which  he  lives ; and  the  vast 
majority  of  us  must  live  with  common  things  and  activities. 
The  boy  who  may  find  his  calling  in  the  line  of  trade  and: 
transportation,  may  be  educated  for  this  calling  in  terms  of 
ships,  railroads,  freight  rates  and  the  like.  The  girl  who  ex- 
pects to  take  a hand  in  home  making  (and  few  do  not)  may 
find  her  education  in  the  sciences  of  foods  and  their  prepara- 
tion, and  in  the  arts  of  home  construction  and  beautifying.  The 
boy  of  the  soil  can  be  educated  by  agriculture  for  agriculture 
and  the  various  other  callings  which  his  community  demands 
of  him.  Educating  by  means  of  the  subjects  close  at  hand 
therefore  brings  the  student  into  intimate  acquaintance  with 
his  own  life.  The  true  end  and  aim  of  education  is  to  pre- 
pare men  and  women  to  live  and  to  be  productive,  and  he  or 
she  lives  best  and  fullest  who  is  in  closest  touch  with  the 
things  and  activities  nearest  about  them  and  with  which  they 
are  .most  closely  associated. 
Finally  it  is  the  aim  of  the  college  to  produce  men  who  have 
the  power  to  solve  problems — men  who  shall  originate,  not 
merely  execute.  It  is  power  that  counts,  and  knowledge  gives 
power. 
Education  is  the  most  important  of  interests,  for  it  is  the 
path  to  the  highest  power,  the  worthiest  ideals,  the  truest  free- 
dom; without  it  man  can  seldom  reach  the  highest  possibilities 
that  are  his. 
