Imperial Valley press., 1913-05-31

buttons OF Investigators. Or the teach
er may prepare to teach new subjects,
or may study educational theory and
methods. The school principal or su-
perintendent may study educational or
ganization and administration, or prin-
ciples Of school architecture or school
hygiene.
The public official may study munich
pal engineering, in sanitation or road
building or public architecture, or pub
| lie accounting or municipal efficiency
or taxation and public finance. The
social worker may study the principles
Of charities and corrections or health
promotion or recreation and playground
work or psychology or social econom-
les
The clerk or business man may study
accounting or commercial geography
or the materials Of commerce or dues
| tions of international trade. The young
banker can profit by study Of actual
mathematics or economics or financial
methods and financial history.
| For women. the correspondence in
struction Of the university opens a
whole host Of opportunities. Mothers
may keep themselves intellectual COM
rades for their children and their hus-
| bands. by studying in any field desired.
Or women may specialize in domestic
science, home design and domestic art,
flower growing. poultry raising. vege-
| table gardening. home chemistry. food
| selection and preparation, home ny
| giene or home economies. including
wise methods OF planning household
budgets and provident use Of family
income. Young mothers may study the
best care Of babies and children. Wo-
men left with affairs to look after for
themselves may study the principles
! Of business and Of conservative invest
ment.
In these days when both sexes vote
a special responsibility is on California
women to acquaint themselves with
| the nature, workings and history Of
American institutions. Here is oppor
tunity for study Of civics, history and
the political problems Of city, state
I and nation, which every citizen has re-
sponsibility toward solving.
| To the man or woman interested in
| modern science. this correspondence
| instruction department means rich op
| portunity either to hear what other
men have already found out about sci
ence or to obtain guidance in studying
the open book Of nature. and access
10 the wonderland OF plant and animal
life, Of earth history and natural hap
penng. which lies in and about every
farm house or garden plot.
Then for men and women alike there
| is the whole field Of literature, history,
art, economies, sociology. political sci
cnce, philosophy and the languages.
! ancient and modern. A vast number
Of the correspondence students, un-
| loubtcdly, will be those whose primary
purpose is to enjoy a richer and fuller
life. to drink at the spring Of learning
to know the happiness OF dealing with
the great fundamental intellectual in
terests OF humanity.
These correspondence courses are
for everybody. There is no one who
can read and write who cannot profit
by this university teaching. There is
no one so highly educated that he could
not make profitable use OF the oppor-
tunity in some particular field. Ques-
tions Of credit for work done are to
be settled later on, as policies are de-
cided. 1t is not expected that college
entrance requirements can be met by
such preparation.
| Just what courses will be given this
first year will depend upon compare
| Tive demand. So it behooves every
one who wants to go to the University
of California by mail to write betimes
to tie correspondence instruction de-
partment and to tell what he wants to
study. Only those courses for which
| there is the greatest call can, Of course,
he given during the coming year. the
work being wldened hereafter as time
| goes on.
| in thus opening its doors to all the
world, the University of California ful
| fills the real function of the modern
state university to offer whatever CO.
operation and aid it may to all who
will harken to opportunity. And in
this new work, Of so much import to
lhe community, the university bespeaks
the aid Of all existing educational
agencies IS schools, newspapers,
' churches, libraries-and Of all men of
good will.