The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-06-12
DR.. Herman C. Bumpus Was
Inaugurated at Med
ford To-day
WAS PROFESSOR
OF ZOOLOGY
DR.. Reber Of University Of
Wisconsin Speaker
Of the Day

Tufts College, Mass, June l2.--Dr.
Hermon &. Bumpus, who was elected
president of Tufts college last Septem.
| Der, was formally inaugurated to-day.
DR.. Bumpus has held number of i'm
portant positions as professor of biolo-
gy and zoology, including the director
| ships of the biological laboratory of the
United States fish commission at Woods
Hole, Mass, and the American Museum
OF, Natural History in New York, but
from 1911 up to his election to the pres
idency of Tufts he was the business
manager of the University of Wiscon-
sin.
A theme of the inaugural day was
"1he Obligation of College to State" the
subject of an address by DIR. Louis Z.
Reber, dean of the extension division
of the University of Wisconsin
Defining this obligation as that of Gre
ating an intelligent public opinion, Dean
Reber said Even the most optimistic
prophets have been compelled to admit
a possible failure of our institutions, in
adequate preparation of the great ma
jority of the people, for the exercise of
their privileges of citizenship, whether
in business relations, in social life or in
politics"
He dealt largely with university ex
tension--the carrying of the university
to the people"-as means to meet this
obligation, and said:
'The day is past, we may confidently
believe, when whose who aspire to lead
ership and the comparatively small num-
beers who can afford the lux of high
pressure period of educational pursuits
for the sake of personal pleasure and
prestige-the day is past we believe
when these alone may hope to claim |
the advantages of the splendid resources
of the great educational foundations of |
the world. We are in an era which ex
tends to the furthest limit, the dazzling |
OF an educational system under |
which, for every genius whose gifts are |
developed there shall be prepared null
titude to share the benefits of the
achievement---to utilize the material val
ues of research--to appreciate and en-
Joy the master.p pieces of art, of music
and of literature.
The speaker told some of the results
Of extension work at Wisconsin and aft
Pr mentioning the use the state made of
the university, in calling its men to serve
On commissions, boards, and committee,
said:
Next to service to the government,
Wisconsin is perhaps most widely known
'or the measures adopted in the intro
iuction and spread of industrial educa-
lion. When the act was passed pro-
riding education for employees between
he age of IL and l6, il was believed that
extension would become less valuable as
IN instrument OF vocational education.
Jontrary TO this expectation, in the cit
es the work shifted TO a different, usual
v higher grade, and in the smaller towns
not affected by the law the demand )
or elementary industrial training con
inued 10 grow.
"The results from this phase Of extern .
,e overlooked that courses of study Z
dapted 10 the needs and interests Of $
he owners or superintendents. may have
vider social and economic value. The
Of one employer frequent ]
= carried greater benefit 10 his communi- a
Y than the improvement efficiency of
many employees.
In every respect extension teaching /
TO that carried on within ;
he institution. with the exception that n
includes a wider range of application.
he languages literature, and the arts
/ addition to the scientific courses, are .
iven by correspondence study and in ,
asses. Furthermore. the work Of the y
apartment OF lectures is made as high
: inspirational and educational a. viii I
2 accepted by the audiences addressed. !
ervioe devoted 10 general community !,
also holds an important :
lace"