University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-12-05

still remains, all nOnOr 10 MIN anu
the desire for broad. deep culture:
bit in university halls he now shakes
hands. and is glad to do so. with the
man whose chief end in life is to
find out the best method of feeding
calves. The intellectual and the prac-
tical have met. and the word "univer-
sity" covers them both. Universi-
ties still do kite flying; they still
theOrize. But they now reduce their
theories to terms of bread and butter
They go farther. Their light is not
hid under a bushel Four walls are
too small for the activities of the
modern universities. ''All the citi-
zens of the state, they say" are on
our enrolment. How can we reach
them?
Turn to the University of Missouri.
There as in the other great state uni
versities the older classicalism no
longer occupies throne alone. Far
ther and farther it is being nudged
into a corner and surrounded by pro-
fessional schools. Deeper and deep
er it itself is being penetrated and,
SO some say, vitalized by ideas that
SAVIOR of the doctrine that two fried
eggs are a greater stimulus to a hun
CRY mans mental activities than a
couple of pages of Sanskrit. For
better or for worse the University is
meeting a demand for a training in
today and tOday's problems that
grow out of the fact that man has an
appetite and needs shelter, rather
than a training in yesterday and
yesterdays questions of how many
beans it takes to make pile. The
problem of today is to find some
method of getting one bean to pro-
duce a pile" The emphasis has
shifted.
But what is the University doing
ir its larger capacity of serving the
state? OF its service in training the
men and the women within its walls
to higher ideals and to nObler profess
sional service no estimate can be
made OF the work done for those
beyond the campus in more direct
way, however. better idea can be
had
There was once a mountain that
would not move and a man who made
up his mind to go to it. There are
in Missouri men and women who can
not attend the University, The Uni
versity has decided to go to them.
An Extension Division has been Or
ganized to give university work by
correspondence and by lectures at
Extension Centers.
The extension work by correspond
ence is just in its infancy. The Uni
versity. however. is proud of its child
and great things are hoped of it.
Next year, if plans materialize, the
child will have a nurse with the I'll
tie. Director of the Extension Divis-
ion. Then there will be walking
where now there is creeping. But
the creeping is lusty. Within the
last two weeks the enrolment of stu
dents by correspondence grew from
twenty-five to forty. There students
represent every section of Missouri
and also the states of Illinois. Okla
homa and Texas.
The students by correspondence
come from many different callings.
&C to st. Louis and there you may
find behind cloister walls two nuns
with assignments from the Univer-
sity of Missouri beside their beads
and their missal Go to other cities
of the state and you man find here
a commission merchant with a report
to the Extension Division stuck be-
tween the pages of his ledger, there
banker, here a university professor.
there superintendent of schools.
and all with their names neatly en-
tered in registration book kept
at the University. Moreover, cores
pcndence work knows no race lines
and on its roll it counts two Ger
mans. a Jap and an Italian, and that
out of a total registration of forty.
University work by correspondence
offers the strangers within our immi-
grafton bars the chance of getting
American ideals with an American
education.
There is, too, opening up another
phase of correspondence work. The
cry for the need of greater efficiency
in certain business and industrial
lines has reached the University. The
University, true to its ideal that it
exists for all the state. is preparing
its answer. Soon the man whose
business fights shy of profits can