University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-03

put it in a catalogue, for no one
reads catalogues. statistics or die
tionaries. Certainly, few persons
consider such reading a good method
for passing a pleasant hour. So it is
with the University catalogue, usual
ly considered a necessary evil, a
book to be glanced through for &C.
casional information but never for
actual knowledge concerning the
steady progress of the institution.
The bulletin of 1928 Just is
sued is packed with interesting facts
about new departments added, new
buildings to come, new courses
opened and so on. A simple half
page announcement of a new course
in forestry may completely escape
notice. yet the addition of this COM
paratively new science means a stride
forward for the University and an
incalculable addition to the solution
of the modern question of forest
conservation. The course was Of
fered in the fall of 1911 under Pro-
fessOr j. A. Ferguson, but for the
year to ONE it is enlarged to
twenty-three subjects. including such
as numbering. logging and milling;
forest economics. which is the rela-
ton of the forest to labor, industry
and public health; and field work in
forest management. to be given from
April | to June ! at a camp in the
University Forest of $4,000 acres in
the Ozarks. The new curriculum in
forestry is announced as ranking
with the best forestry schools in the
country. The degrees offered are b.
S. in Forestry for the four years
course. and NJ. F. for those complet-
ing five years.
Another chair established this
year. IL that is sure to be of great
benefit to students in agriculture, is
a department of poultry husbandry
under II. l.. kempster. This course
teaches the care and handling of
poultry. Raising poultry is as much
of a science as raising anything else
on a farm. a theory in radical opposi-
ton to the popular idea that when
everything else fai S We can always
raise chickens.
Correspondence instruction is Of
fered for seekers after knowledge
who are unable to come to the Uni
versity. This taking the University
to the student is done in connection
with extension teaching. and credit
toward a degree may be secured in
this way by members of University
Extension CenterS. 1t is managed
something like this: A reasonable
number II citizens in a community
a lecturer is then Sent to them al
intervals. The correspondence course
is conducted in addition to his lee
lures. Courses may be taken in al
most Every subject taught in the
University. The enrolment fees are
not large-$3.5o for one hours
credit up to $40 for a six-hOur course.
1t is interesting to note the trend
of public opinion I'm the mute testi-
mony of catalogues such as this.
For instance, not so long ago the
law was only for lawyers. No one
knew anything about it. and for a
layman to aspire to legal Knowledge
was considered presumptuouS if not
close to sacrilegious. The number
of law courses now open to students
of the School of Law shows how
this attitude has changed. JOurn-
alism offers a curse in newspaper
Jurisprudence. which deals largely
with the libel laws. In the Military
military law shows the
legal manner of lOOsing the dogs of
II" oiilio ~ PuuiiS
law is a course open to all who
taken a sufficient number of
courses: and forest law tells
how to deal with natural resources
grabberS.
Beginning with the session of
I9l2-13 the degree OF Bachelor of
Arts with HOnOrs will be awarded to
hose students of exceptional ability
who complete the hOnOrs curriculum.
The requirements for admission to an
curriculum are: Sixty hours
.redit toward graduation; an aver
age grade of S in all the courses Sc
an average grade of NJ in all
other courses. The hOnOrs curricu-
of the various colleges has not
been announced as yet.
AS material signs of progress the
University will boast of two new
buildings next year. a Physics Build
,D IN COG. xInu ann opd N Agr;cul-