Ariel articles on 1892 Field Trip

      The Senior Geology class will make a trip to Osceola Mills and Taylor's Falls next Monday. They will take a special car and will remain until Tuesday afternoon.

      The annual excursion of the Geology class to Osceola and Taylor's Falls is one example of the great care taken in the university to teach science in a live way. Chemistry and biology can best be studied in laboratories, therefore laboratories fitted with every possible conveniences are provided. To study geology, to see rocks in the making and observe how they are already made it is necessary to go to the great laboratories of nature, and so the classes go. They visit the banks of the Mississippi, near home, and the quarries on the campus, they go to St. Paul for something different, and then crown all with the wonders and glories of the Dalles of the St. Croix. 

      We speak of this not because it is a marvelous and unheard of thing that a professor should take some pains to teach a science as it should be taught, but because it is so natural to take these things as a matter of course, to forget how much time and trouble they cost some one. A trip to Taylor's Falls in a special car, with pleasant company and very little expense is not a vested right of the Geology class, but a privilege given them that they may have advantages for study. It is a good thing for us to stop and think once in a while, how much trouble is taken to give us a chance to learn, so we may appreciate our privileges and use them accordingly.