The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-08-04
UNIVERSITY EXTENSION.

The experiment in University Extern
sion is to be continued, as it should be.
The members of the University Club
and others interested in the intellectual
advancement of the community will
meet on Monday and endeavor to arouse
increased interest in the subject.
University Extension has grown on
the mainland, enormously, and quite a
number of distinguished men and orig
inal thinkers devote themselves to the
work and give lectures and instruction.
Where it is properly followed Univer-
sity Extension is an immense boon, and
where it is only attended in a dilletante
kind of manner, it does some good
What the aim of University Extension
should be is to induce such members of
community as are unable for various
reasons to attend the universities. to
become students, and to study upon
proper lines. If it only succeeds with
a few it has done a noble work, and has
brought higher education to the door of
the people. Large attendance is not
necessarily a measure of the success of
University Extension 1t may be, but
again it may most decidedly not be.
What University Extension wants to
reach are the young who desire knowl-
edge to help them on their path through
the world. To these the lectures should
open out systematic study, and should
by means of examination enable the
listeners to test their success in assimi-
lating the knowledge placed before
them. Though it may be interesting to
have the grey boards and blue stock
ings of the community attend, it should
be always kept in mind that the real
work is not for them. The lectures are
not given for mere amusement, to be
listened to and to be criticized, but they
are given for the purpose of yielding
permanent instruction on lines which
expense shuts out large number from.
What the expenses of a university
education are, has been the subject of
an inquiry made by the New York Trib-
une. The facts conclusively show why
a large number cannot avail themselves
of the many institutions which are open
to them in the United States, expense
and time are both against them.
Taking the matter of expense. always
calculated low, the universities run as
follows: Stanford $225 to $500: Michi-
gan 5000 to 5000; Pennsylvania $3.50:
Princeton 1929 to 1868; Colgate $3.50; Co
lumbia $3.50; Cornell $500; Hamilton
$2I3 to $3.50; Rochester $500 to $500; Am
herst $780, Bowdoin $500 to $4OO Brown
$500; yarmouth $500; Harvard $1,000;
Yale 5000.
Upon the minimum given it is hard
scratching for a student to get through
The time required is three years. Uni
versity Extension cannot replace Uni
versity Education, but it can do a great
deal to help private study. The gain
from university is not only the mental
training, but it is the tone which man
acquires. There is a peculiar atmos-
phere which stamps a man for life and
influences his future character. This
University Extension cannot give Still
University Extension does great work
and the young and rising men and wom-
en- should avail themselves of its bene-
hts. But those who attend the lectures
should be in earnest, determining to be
students, and not merely smatterers
who go to get a false veneer of half
baked knowledge.