The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-07-08
SCOPE OF STATE
UNI
|pHEsi0EhT KANE OUTLINES AIMS
or INSTITUTIONS IN
ADDRESS. .I

vestisatIons. Highly Trained Men
and High Grade Equipment q Great
Service.
"The purpose of the university Is
to train. the students for the higher
order Of manhood and womanhood.
which means the highest order Of citi-
zenship. to at them for the work that
needs most to be done in the state,
and besides these two great purposes
the university renders directly to the
public, under the auspices Of the state.
government departments and the uni
versity itself, the service that can be
rendered through its highly trained
men and its high grade equipment, =
said DIR. Thomas Franklin Kane, pres
ident Of the University OF Washing
ton, In an address delivered on The
Scope of the University" delivered be-
fore the university summer school.
University Must Keep Close to People.
"A university to do its best must
keep In touch with the people whom it
is to serve" continued DR.. Kane.
@This is true Of state university, as
of our public schools, in peculiar de-
gree, and so, while the university con-
ducts it's work much the same as in
any other university to the outward
observer, in spirit the state university
conducts its work at all times. II true
to its environment, conscious Of the
states needs.
ssIn the way OF illustration, may
say that we believe that in certain
of our high schools training should
be provided in agriculture. that the
work in domestic science should be
encouraged, that the high schools will
be benefited by manual training, that
the students in the high schools will,
in many cases, be benefited by train
ing in bookkeeping and commercial
arithmetic. And SO we cooperate in
encouraging this work in the high
schools by granting credit for en-
trance for this work to the extent
that it may be done in addition to the
work that is necessary to prepare a
student to follow the actual courses
that he is to take in the university.
Helpful to High Schools.
Tn the same way provision has
been made In the university for train
ing in public school music, in house
hold economies and IN manuaI rfHIn'
ing, not primarily as university work
but with u view to helping equip
teachers to do certain work IN high
school, which we feel will be helpful
to the high school in doing service
to the public that the high school
should do.
aThis is the principle followed In
the university in determining the way
in which work is done, and likewise
in determining the departments Of
work established in the university.
ssThe last school to be established
in the university was the school Of
forestry. This school was establish
ed because the lumber interest is one
of the greatest, if not the greatest,
industry in the state. An official in.
one Of the great timber syndicates
of the state estimates the value OF
the timber in Washington roughly at
$500. 900 900. It is within reason to
hope that the work of our school Of
forestry may help in an important de-
gree to determine what may be real
lied on the timber wealth OF the
state. We are working, too on ques-
tions connected with the taxation Of
timber lands with view to inaugur-
ating method OF taxing timber lands,
such that holders will not be forced
by the burden Of taxes to cut that
timber before it should be felled.
.On account OF the large number
OF men who are experts in their re-
spective lines, and on account Of the
equipment in the various depart:
ments. the libraries and laboratories
special service may be rendered to-
the public OF the highest order"
The president cited the benefits that
would accrue to the state from the
departments Of highway engineering.
geology, forestry, civil engineering.
and similar branches Of university
work.
prof. Henry N. Landes, head Of the
department Of geology, has served a.
state geologist ten years. said Mr.
Kane. ropo1raphic maps prepared