Leadership School

LEADERSHIP SCHOOL By Lowry Nelson, Director Extension Division The third annual Leadership school of the Brigham Young University closed on Friday, January 25, after a five-days' con- tinuous convention of men and women in various activities through- out the intermountain country. Sixty-six stakes and one mission of the Church were represented in this gathering, and 1,802 registered from Utah, Wyoming, Arizona, Colorado, California, and Idaho, which with 1,100 students made about 3,000 in all. This is said to be the best representation of stakes ever experienced during Leader- ship Week. Fifty-one stakes were represented in 1922. "Building Community Soul" was the slogan which seemed to be uppermost in the hearts of the hundreds who visited the great school during the week, all who attended being thoroughly imbued with a desire to learn in order that they might go to their several wards and improve the community conditions. The class work, as well as the caring for the visitors, was well arranged. The general assemblies were crowded on all occasions and the speakers, including a number of the leading authorities of the Church, Dr. Adam S. Bennion, superintendent of Church schools; Dr. L. D. H. Weld, director of research of Swift and Company; Dr. James Wallace of the Rockefeller Institute; Dr. A. E. Winship of the Journal of Education; and the professors of the Brigham Young University, were happy in their educational and instructive addresses. Several members of the general boards of all of the auxiliaries were in attendance, and the following general authorities: George Albert Smith, Stephen L. Richards, and Melvin J. Ballard, of the Council of the Twelve. Dr. Adam S. Bennion, Superintendent of Church Schools, was a visitor during a goodly portion of the week, addressing the department of Religious Education on Monday, and the general assembly on Wednesday and Thursday. In the evenings, entertainments were given free to the visitors. On Monday night a general get-acquainted party was held in the Ladies' Gymnasium. On Tuesday evening , the B. Y. U. Band gave a concert in College Hall under the direction of Professor Sauer. On Wednesday evening, four one-act plays were presented in College Hall, directed by students of the department of dramatic art under the general supervision of Professor Pardoe. On Thursday evening, a musical program under the direction of Professor Franklin Madsen! and a pageant under the direction of Professor E. H. Eastmond! were presented; and on Friday night the guests had the privilege of hearing the annual debate between the B. Y. U. and the Utah Agricultural College.

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LEADERSHIP SCHOOL 441 Devotion to subject matter, and the pursuit of courses in an academic manner characterized the thirty departments. People came with pencils and note paper and showed an unusual interest in securing practical information which could be put to good use in the local communities. Discussion was a general order, and it was often lively, and always stimulating. The Daily Leader was published five times during the week, and contained lively information concerning the "goings-on" about the campus. A double edition of the Alumni Announcer, the official organ of the B. Y. U. Alumni Association, is being issued and sent to all who attended Leadership Week. It contains a resume of most of the departments as well as some interesting photographs which show various activities. About 160 class sessions were held, each of which was one hour in length. The classes commenced at 9:30 and were held hourly until 12:30. After lunch, the general assembly convened in College Hall at 1:30 and lasted until 3 p. m., when classes commenced again, and ran until six. Over forty lecturers from outside the University faculty were engaged to participate in the department programs and in general assembly. In this issue of the Era are three photographs, including the frontispiece, taken during the week, by Professor Walter Cottam whose artistic photography was displayed in an exhibit of the Alpine Summer School, in the Education building. These were supplemented by paintings by Professors Calvin Fletcher and B. F. Larson, and by students' exhibits and a wonderful collection of moths and butter- flies by Tom Spaulding, all of which received favorable comment. The inspiration for community progress and initiative that these schools stir up can scarcely be computed. They create chieftains and commanders, and awaken, in a constructive way, the intellect and emotions, tending to life and activity among the people. Provo, Utah Tobacco In view of the general impression that most college students smoke, it is encouraging to read the report of a committee of noted educators, who ex- amined the records of 1 5,000' students in 24 different colleges, that only 5,501 were smokers, showing that, on the average, about two- thirds of college young men of today do not smoke. In addition to the great waste of soil, labor and money in producing $3,090,000,000 worth of tobacco in the United States in 1923 is the waste of other products that go into tobacco. Take sugar, for instance. Each year 20,000 tons go into chewing tobacco, 6,000 tons into smoking brands, and 6,000 tons into cigarettes.

UTAH INVITES THE NATION A National Summer School at Logan By President Elmer G. Peterson, Utah Agricultural College Modern invention has greatly eliminated space as a barrier to human intercourse. When the Pioneers sought their western home they traveled only a comparatively few miles a day, breaking the road as they went. In the sharp defiles of the mountains they often spent days covering a dozen miles or so because of the underbrush and timber to be cleared and the grade to be made passable for wagons. The grandmother of Lieutenant Russell Maughan, the well known army aviator, was, I am informed, the first woman to enter Cache Valley, passing by team traveling from the present site of Brigham City to what is now Wellsville but which was first called Maughan's Fort. It took, if I am informed correctly, the better part of two days to make the trip through the mountains, a trip now made during the summer in forty-five minutes or less by automobile. I recently sat at the same table with the daughter of this Pioneer woman and her son Lieutenant Russell Maughan. The Lieutenant, it will be remembered attempted last summer the first daylight flight from coast to coast. Due to an engine defect he was forced to land at Rock Springs, Wyoming. He made the distance from New York to Rock Springs, a distance of about 2200 miles, in about nine hours, prob- ably less than half the time it took his grandmother to travel from the present site of Brigham City to Wellsville a distance of fourteen miles. So, according to Divine injunction, is the earth being subdued. The Earth Being Subdued In the early Pioneer days contact with the outer world was rare and the thought of the world filtered only slowly into the moun- tain valleys. Now we read the daily news of the world the day before and may listen by radio to concerts hundreds of miles, or even thou- sands, away. We eat food put into cans or packages in many parts of the world and our wearing apparel, instead of being homespun, is made in New York, Boston or elsewhere. So with all life; it has become close and intimate after over fifty years of isolation. The latest manifestation in Utah of the close alliance in thought and endeavor of the people of the nation is the organization at the Utah Agricultural College of a National Summer school. On the college campus during the first six weeks of the summer quarter, particularly, there will be in residence the most eminent group of educational leaders ever assembled in the west for such a purpose. They have been selected from America's greatest institutions includ-

UTAH INVITES THE NATION 443 ing among others, Harvard, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Chicago, Stan- ford, Cornell, Yale and California. It has been the plan to select the outstanding authorities in these institutions and organize under their direction courses of study to be given in conjunction with the regular College faculty in the major educational fields during the summer months for both undergraduate and graduate credit. At Logan, Utah, "in the heart of the Rockies," this national assemblage will be held this year beginning June 9. Students will be invited from throughout the nation to study under these masters and to enjoy the unsurpassed climatic and scenic values of Utah. In the Tops of the Rockies There is probably no college in America which offers a summer climate superior to that of the Utah Agricultural College. Probably only a very few equal it. Areas abounding in opportunity for study in the natural sciences are readily accessible from the college campus. The very eminent faculty selected for the Summer courses and lec- tures will augment the resident faculty in giving courses which will undoubtedly attract teachers of the elementary and high schools, and college and university teachers and students from many parts of the country. Lawyers, doctors, and other professional workers includ- ing parents and local church and social leaders, will also be interested in this unusual opportunity for both study and recreation. It is more than a passing compliment to Utah and the College that these leaders in national thought and scholarship should consent to give courses, which they have previously given only in their own famous institutions, at the Utah Agricultural College. They have, it is conceivable, been impelled to come here not only by the lure which the west holds out by way of beauty, and by the lure of travel, but also by the attraction of Utah people whose citizenship and whose history and ideals are being scrutinized by the thoughtful minds of our generation as never before. Leaders of World Thought Among the great leaders to be assembled this summer at Logan are the following: Prof. E. L. Thorndike, of Columbia University, the national authority in psychology and education, will be assisted by Prof. Ray- mond Franzen of the University of California in giving courses in psychology and education. Professor Thorndike's tests and measure- ments of mentality represent the foremost work done in psychology in recent years. He is an authority known to every teacher. Prof. Thomas D. Wood who, in addition to being head of the department of physical and health education of Columbia University, is chairman of the joint committee on health education of the National Education Association and the American Medical Association. He is the undoubted authority in America in his field of work. He will

Top, left to right: E. A. Steiner, Head Department of Social Science and Applied Christianity, Grinnell College; Dr. Shailer Matthews, Dean of the Divinity School, University of Chicago. Center: Professor John Adams, Professor of Psychology and Education, University of London; Professor Henry C. Cowles, Department of Botany, University of Chicago. Bottom: Professor R. S. Knappen, Department of Geology, University of Kansas; Professor Frederick J. Turner, Professor of History, Harvard University.

UTAH INVITES THE NATION 445 be assisted by Dr. R. C. McLain, supervisor of health in the schools of Detroit, considered the most advanced city in America in the appli- cation of principles of health in its schools as well as in many other municipal achievements. Dr. Emmett D. Angell of Wisconsin University, and also lecturer at Harvard and Yale, will give two courses of six weeks duration in recreational leadership. Dr. Angell is the author of many of the games which we play and will be especially attractive to Church recre- ational leaders, Boy Scout leaders, teachers and physical education directors in schools and colleges. He is pronounced the most eminent leader in America in recreation and play. He is also a distinguished coach of track, football, and basketball, and the author of texts upon sports which are used extensively in colleges and high schools. Feeling that students and teachers of science would be especially attracted to the west, in the summer particularly, the college has se- lected the American leaders in geology, paleontology, botany and zoology, to constitute its scientific staff for the Summer of 1924. These are Prof. Eliot Blackwelder of Stanford in geology and paleontology, who will be assisted by Prof. R. S. Knappen of the University of Kansas. Prof. Henry C. Cowles of the University of Chicago in botany, and Prof. \V. C. Allee of the same institution in zoology. President Atwood of Clark University who is considered the leading geologist of America by many, himself, upon being con- sulted in the matter, put Blackwelder at the head of the list. Cowles is America's greatest ecological botanist, and Allee, according to his colleagues, the American leader in field study in zoology. The courses in the three basic subjects to be given by these great leaders of American science should attract teachers and students from through- out the nation. Science and the Arts Prof. E. V. McCollum of Johns Hopkins University, discoverer of two of the vitamines, the national authority in human nutrition of adult and child, will give two courses and probably a seminary in addi- tion for advanced teachers of health and home economics, and for doctors and nurses. One of his courses is being planned for those with only a general education. Prof. E. C. Branson, of the University of North Carolina, who is now in Europe conducting special investigations in rural life, will conduct courses in rural sociology. His publications and books on rural problems are considered authoritative throughout America. Teachers and students of history in colleges and high schools will be especially pleased to learn that the College has secured the services of Prof. Frederick J. Turner, head of the department of history of Harvard, to give the courses in history during the summer session. He will be assisted by Prof. Frederick Merk of the same institution. Prof. Turner is often referred to by his colleagues as the "Prince of

44 ^ IMPROVEMENT ERA American Historians." He is the recognized authority upon western history. The courses he will give at the College will cover the Utah, California and Oregon pioneer movements, in addition to which one course will deal with a phase of general American history. Prof. Turner is retiring this year as head of the department at Harvard and the courses at the Utah Agricultural College, according to his present plans, will be the last active teaching he will do. The College and Utah are especially honored in his coming to the State. Prof. Turner and Dr. Merk will give the courses as they are given at Harvard. Pos- sibly opportunity will be presented during the summer for visits by Prof. Turner and his classes to historic points in the west, including a pilgrimage over the old "Mormon" trail. The teachers mentioned above are to give courses as well as certain special lectures. In addition to those the college has secured for lecture engagements of approximately one week each the following eminent leaders of American thought: Educational Leaders of our Generation David Starr Jordan, President Emeritus, of Stanford University; Liberty Hyde Bailey, of Cornell University, the greatest American teacher in agriculture and rural life; Prof. John Adams, of the Univer- sity of London, who is pronounced by Prof. Thorndike one of the three leading psychologists of England; Prof. E. A. Steiner one of America's great lecturers on social problems and applied Christianity, and Dean Shailer Matthews of the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. Dr. A. E. Winship will lecture for three days during the session. He is nationally known as the editor of the Journal of Education, of Boston. Dean Matthews will lecture on the life of Christ and the social significance of the Savior's message. No men stand higher than these in achievement within their lines of activity and in educational influence which they have had upon their gen- eration. Other additions to the faculty undoubtedly will be announced later although care has been exercised to secure only the great figures in the scientific and educational world for this first session. The World Watching Utah The list of authorities is the most eminent group ever assembled 'in a single Summer school in America. Not only our teachers and students in colleges and universities and teachers in the public schools but also business and professional men and women have here an extra- ordinary opportunity for study and recreation. There is more than educational interest in the visit to Utah of these great American teachers. They themselves and those who come with them will have an opportunity to get acquainted with our State and the West. Plans are already well under way for the second session of the Summer school to be held in 1925. It is felt that the Na- tional Summer school will grow in volume from year to year, Why

UTAH INVITES THE NATION 447 may not Logan, nestled in its wonderful valley, become the summer Mecca for the great philosophers, scientists and social leaders of the na- tion? Why may not Utah's state college, situated on its lofty eminence in the very heart of the Rocky Mountains, be the inspiring center for the dissemination of the most profound thought of our time? These valleys have served and are serving lofty purposes in the promulgation of truth. They were fashioned for just such great enterprise. Logan, Utah David Starr Jordan, President Emeritus of Stanford University MY RESOLVE Every day and every night I say: No matter how hot and fierce the fight, I must not, I will not, swerve or stray From those who defend eternal right. Every day and every night I pray: No matter how error's hosts pursue, Keep me true, to the end of life's way, To Thy sacred laws and hallowed truth. Every day and night I will strive To think and say and do my very best, To uphold all things holy and high; And emulate all that's pure and blest. Nephi Jensen.