Arizona republican., 1912-05-27
EXTENSION COURSES
 BY UNIVERSITY MEN
Plans of Co-Operation Between the Arizona Educational
 Institutions.

The Tempe Normal School and the on a course of study in agriculture to be given in the normal school and to be articulate1 with the courses in farming m the university In the study of this problem the agricultural course in the high schools will be taken up and an attempt made to frame q course that will suit the needs of these schools. The Mesa and the Phoenix high scncols are already offering an agricultural course for next year.
 The importance to farming cOmmu- mites Of instruction in agriculture in the local high schools has been mani- Tested clearly in Iowa. The issue of
 Country Gentleman for May IS says:
 Four years ago the superintendent
 of schools in Wright county inquired
 of the boys and girls above the fourth
 grade in 34 rural schools what they in tended to do when they were grown up Of the 164 boys 157 replied that they would have nothing to do with farm ing; ana 163 of the 174 girls were equally emphatic. Three years later, during which time instruction in ele- mentary agriculture and home ecOnOm- ics was gwen and correlated effective i ly with other school work, the ques- tion was repeated in the same schools. 1 This time out of IA boys, 162 answered ! that they intended to become farmers:
 and 161 out of the ITS girls announced ] that they planned to become home , keepers farmers, and so on.'
 ! Mir J. H, SaundersOn has been ap- l pointed director of athletics at the Cn- 1 iyersity of Arizona for next year. MT 1 Saunderson is q graduate of Albion | college. 4 successful teacher, every inch | a man. and an athletic coach with a 1 long succession of victories to his cred ! it. He will have charge of all outdoor 1 athletics at the university. This is the 1 first time in the history of the uniVer- i sity that an appointment of this kind ! has been made and it is hoped that 1t 1 will have good results not only at the universitr but in all school athletics | in the state
 ] For some months the university has | ben considering elementary courses in | mining to be given in high schools. The mining towns have the same claim to state support for vocational education | in their high schools as the agricultur- i al communities This was recognized | in the bill recently passed in the legis- | lature The chief difficulty in initiat- | ing mining courses is that there are ! no suitable text books and no eXper- | fence in other states to guide us; Ari- 1 Zona may have to work this out not only for herself but for other states At first mining studies in the high i schools can consist of little more than l an elementary course in ore deposits to follow strong course in physica | geography or phYsiography, and tC 1 have most value for our schools this ! course must discuss Arizona cOndi-
 tions. Arizona has but four higi ! schools in mining towns and as thF | demand for such a text would have but limited sale and school book publisher!
 would have little encouragement t | issue such a book. But this problem
 is not insoluble and soon. WithOu
 doubt. the high schools of the minin!
 towns vii have the proper means fo
 this study.
 One of the requests Of the universit,
 in it's appropriation bill before tn
 legislature was for a limited sum fO
 'extension courses" Extension cOurs
 es are courses of lectures to be giVel
 by the university instructors out in tn
 sttUea herever they are wanted an
 can be supplied within the limits O