The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-03-08

Il into cloth. There was no national
commerce, practically no transport
alton. Last year the freight trains
of the United States carried freight
which would keep eleven billion men
with two billion horses busy every
transport the same number of miles.
About four.fifths of all the knowledge
taught in the schools has been dis
covered vi ~ &c last hundred
years. All tie Knowledge by which
we control the forces of nature has
been discovered within these hundred
years. Within these hundred years
our world has changed.
Until recently the advancement Of
knowledge has been comparatively
slow.
Says President Van Hise of the
University of Wisconsin;
ITO about the middle of the nire-
teenth century, fair proportion of
the knowledge that the people could
apply had been assimilated by them
in the more enlightened nations. But
within this second period the ad-
vancement of knowledge has been ex-
ceedingly rapid. The result is that
accumulation OF knowledge has far
outrun the assimilation of the peo-
Pile. To illustrate, we know enough
so that if the knowledge were APP
piled the agricultural products of the
nation give these results and improve
in their fertility instead Of deterior-
ating. We know enough about scien.
tific medicine SO that II knowledge
were implied infectious and conta-
gious diseases could be practically
eliminated within a score Of years.
| We know enough about the breeding
! of animals so that II that knowledge
| were applied to man, the feeble mind
ed would disappear in generation
and the insane and criminal class be
reduced to a small fraction of their
present numbers. Even in politics
we have sufficient scientific knowl-
edge SO that IL 1t were used there
would be vast improvement in the
government Of this country"
The specific idea of University ex-
tension is that the University shall
carry to the people the knowledge
which they can assimilate for their
betterment along all lines. The Uni
versity is an investment of the peo-
pie, in Libraries, laboratories. shops,
and in men trained in diversified
modern knowledge. The state max.
ing this investment has obviously q
right to expect the largest possible
returns from It. Indeed the ability
of the state to support the invest
ment may depend upon the ability OF
the University to make returns di
rectly to the state in increased ma
terial prosperity.
The extension bulletin announce,
these various departments OF exten
sion work the function Of each indi
Gated by it's name
instruction by Extension, Publ,
Lectures and Entertainments, tn,
Bureau Of General Information ant
Welfars, Teachers Institutes, Leagues
for InterHigh School Contests IL
Defamation, Public Address, Debat
ing and various forms of Athletics
The instruction by extension Is tn,
instruction given outside Universit,
precincts for persons whose chic
business for the time cannot ,b
study, but must be the work for
living. Their distinguishing charaC
teristic is that they take the instruc
tor to the students rather than brin
the students to the instructor. Il
other respects, and especially il
amount and severity of effort requil
ed for credit, they are precisely lik
parallel courses within the Univel
sity. To persons who have not KEEP
informed of this new outside activit
: of the University there will be rea
surprise in the statement that Their
have been last year and this tota
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