University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-12-05
THE UNIVERSITY AND THE STATE
What the University of Missouri is Doing to Take
Instruction to ALL the People,


for. The state is the consideration
Clinton, Sedalia. California and Kan
sas City will have this year in a mod
est way universities Of their own.
More and more the local centers
are assuming, at the invitation of the
University, a hand in the manage
ment of the work. 1t is no longer a
question of what the University will
give. 1t is becoming a question of
what the particular community
wants. Kansas City has a committee
of some of it's strongest and most
energetic men and women to advise
the University of the needs of the
city. The University will do it's best
to meet the desires.
The Extension Division, if letters
Of inquiry and actual enrolment can
be taken as a criterion, appeals most
to the dwellers in cities. The Uni
versity. however, has not forgotten
the needs of the country. Indeed. on
the country has most stress been
laid. In 1909 the Engineering Ex-
Turn to the announcement of the Sta
ton in the general catalogue. There
you may read:
THE object of the Station is to be
of service to the people of the State
Of Missouri by investigating such
problems in engineering as appear to
DC of the most direct and immediate
benefit.
Illinois and the other state univer-
stiles of the Middle West emphasize
research of benefit to the profess
sional or scientific man. Missouri
pins her faith to the people.
And what does the Engineering
Station of the University of Missouri
consider service to the people" to
be? What are the problems of
most direct and immediate benefit?"
Read the titles of three out of the
five bulletins published by the Sta
tion to date: "Acetylene Lighting
for Country Homes" Water Supply
for Country Homes" sanitation
and sewage disposed for Country
Homes" One can imagine the old
master of the ablative case shiver-
ing with horror to think that
colleagues would descend to
spend precious hours in in
vestigating such sordid problems.
But then this is today.
These three bulletins have been
seized greedily by the people of the
state. Five thousand copies of each
of the first and third have been ex-
hausted. More will be issued short
ly. Each bulletin goes to man
who has sent in an individual re-
quest. Each bulletin is the result
or long, labOriOuS experimentation.
The Engineering Experiment Sta
ton has paid it's most sincere COM
pliments to the industrial interests
OF the state. Storage of coal and the
heating value of Missouri coal have
each been worked out. The econo-
Eical firing of Missouri coal is now
receiving attention. The water power
CT the state is being studied. Friction
and fabrication tests are being car
ried on. Missouri needs good roads.
Roads materials from all over the
state find themselves in the labor
atOries of the University.
Experimental work, moreover, in
deep wells is now under way. Be-
sides the Engineering Building a
deep pump now goes splash, splash.
night and day. Every detail of its
operation is being watched. Some
day the result will be put out in bull
letin form. The state will read in
ease and will profit by what was
achieved by the hard work of uni
versity professor.
The task which the Engineering
Experiment Station sets itself in the
solution of the foregoing and other
profile ms. including the hydraulic
ram. shows how near it is to the de-
sires and needs of the people of the
state. Greater industrial efficiency,
better roads and more comfortable
homes are apparently what the sta
tiOn cOnceives to be the problems
of most direct and immediate ben
eft
Besides the Extension Division and
the Engineering Experiment Station
there are other divisions of the Uni
versity almost feverishly working
out plans to serve the state There
is the School of Education busy in
ar endeavOr to find a successful
n ethod of dealing with the back
ward child. Then there is the Col