Excerpt from The M. A. C. Bulletin, Vol. 4: Amherst, Mass;; March 1914

Until comparatively recent years few men ambitious for a college course supposed that they could find a satisfying career in connection with agriculture. Today, the call for men to serve in varied and important places in the agricultural field is beyond the ability of the agricultural colleges to supply. These pages are intended to outline some of the most attractive and significant of these new openings for able young men, and to advise with reference to the educational training necessary.

Not long ago the writer of a book about college life and work stated that the main business of the college is to train "problem-solvers." I like the words. They suggest definite work to be done in the world, big work, hard work, useful work. They appeal to men of force and will, and to men who want to make their lives count not alone for themselves, but for the world's welfare. So I like to think that the main mission of the modern agricultural college is to train men to become rural problem-solvers. And now these problems keep arising - knotty, interesting, important problems of human wealth and welfare that can be solved only by men - trained men.

There are the practical problems of producing adequate food for the city dw.ellers, of making farming "pay" by the use of modern methods. A rapidly increasing number of agricultural college graduates are ambitious to prove that practical agriculture - right here in New England, too - offers a real career for a brainy, alert, ambitious, college man. And they are proving it.

There are the problems of farm business, farm management, buying and selling to advantage. Men who have the business instinct are finding in this field problems "worthy their steel." There are big economic problems to be solved: rural credit, farm labor, the great tenant-farming question. There are engineering problems: irrigation, machinery, use of power, roads, public sanitation.

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