Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-11-27
Minnesota Carries Practical
and Helpful Learning Out,
Among People

A section Of the University of Min
nesota will go ION tour" again this
year. For one week last June the pe0-
pie of number Of small towns in
Minnesota had the State Univ ersi..s
in their midst in the form of its NEST
characteristic activities. and the eish-
teen communities benefited have Ga-
animously asked that the experience
be repeatd this year. ~ : .:.-a -.
University Week" is the institu
ton by which this is made possible.
The project originated with President
George E. Vincent, of the University
of Minnesota, and at once gained The
popular nickname of "PreSlGeGs EEI-
cents Educational Circus" iargeiy be-
cause of the touring method AMI the
fact that it was at first plaa1ed 10 hold
most OF the sessions in tents.
The plan is something mora than
merely university extension. TO all
intents and purposes representative
portion of the university faculty, stu
dents. and equipments temporarily
detached and transferred to other
parts of the State thus actually ex-
tending the benefits of the State s cos
tdiest educational plant to a W;Ger
field than ever before. The plan IS
considered by the United States Blu
reau of Education an excellent device
for bringing together 70 mutual profit
a State university and the people who.
support it.
What University Week" really is
may be seen from typical program.
Each day of the six is devoted to
to some special topic. with lectures
and demonstrations during the day
time and high-class entertainments at
night. Thus: Monday is business
Mems Day There are lectures on 81
kinds of topic interesting to business
men, from marketing problems 70
fighting forest fires, as we'll as a few
talks OF more general nature. In the
evening there is concert by the Unit
yersity Glee Club. Tuesday is Art and
Literature Day, with lectures on IL
braries, children's books, women's
clubs, civic betterment, the drama, and
similar subjects There is a reading
hour in the afternoon, in charge of
trained elocutionist, and an indus
trial art exhibition; in the evening
an illustrated lecture: Are in Com
mon Things
Wednesday is Home Welfare Day.
In the day sessions such problems IS
The Human Beings of High-School
kge.' . why Babies Die rational iiy-
ing, kindergartens, and Industrial edu-s
cation are considered, while at night
prominent educator gives an Illus
trated lecture on How Minnesota
Educates Her Children. Thursday is
Public Health Day, with appropriate
lectures and exhibits. In the evening
there is a dramatic recital of a mod
.ern play.
Friday is Farmers Day. and live
questions of farm policy are discussed
by experts in agriculture. There is
also an address on The Social Posi-:
bitties Of Rural Communities by an
educator who has made special stu
Gies in this field. In the evenings
professors from the university give q
scientific demonstration of the gyro-
scope and liquid air Saturday is Town.
end County Daf III III Social Life II
Town and Country sas the leading
topic. In the eVen5ng the University
Dramatic Club Abpeafs in Shakes
Eeares Merchant OF Venice
Genuine interest is aroused in the
towns visited. In most instances the
people take the visit of the university
as a business of the week, and devote
ali their attention to it. Not only the
t:lwnspeop1e, but farmers from outly-
ing districts as well, attend the SEES
sions. Boys farming camps are organ
i7ed in connection with the University
Week, and always prove a popular
feature. The university authorities
and those who cooperate with them
State health board and other agencies
-are particularly careful to provide
speakers who not only know their sub
iects well, but are able to talk inter-
estingly to a nonuniversity audience,
The expense of obtaining such men
would be prohibitiye but for an ingen-
ious Arrangement of circuits. whereby
the travelling University View Is able
10 play" six communities in the same
neighborhood by interchanging days.
II is estimated that there are sew
cIal ways in which this novel plan OF
extending the influence of State uni
yersity will have a direct eeffct: In
the first place, it will MAXI the work
Of the university well and fayorably
known where it has before been known
only vaguely or even mistakenly; 1t
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