 Society's evolution has transcended the nomadic hunter-gatherer practices, the homesteader subsistence and the cash crops lifestyle following the industrial revolution.Society is evolving into the next stage of agricultural practices involving technological advances as applicable to the international scene of plant, human, and animal life sciences.From the formative years of the University of Saskatchewan, Board of Governors and Senate committee consisting of John Dixon, D. P. McColl, and President Murray saw a need that the University of Saskatchewan should keep in the forefront the great needs of a prairie province and that there should also be a harmonious combination of the Liberal Arts and Pure Sciences with the Sciences as applied to Agriculture and the Professions.