The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1919-01-02
TRAINS BOTH HAND AND MIND
L. of l. President Says Germany Failed
Lacking Honest, Human Ideals.

University of Idaho, Jan. 2.-"Ger-
many failed because her well trained
hands were not informed by honest and
human ideals" said DR.. e. H. Lindley,
president of the University of Idaho. in
discussing the new problems of educa-
ton in the United States.
1t is the duty and the privilege of
the university to turn out men and
women who have the physical skill to
do the work Of the world, and who are
intellectually informed to solve its
problems. BY training both the hand
and the mind, the university hopes to
liberate much of the fine idealsm that
is characteristic of the great north
west"
Plans to carry out President Lind
ley's ideal of reconstructive education
are rapidly falling into shape for the
opening of the winter quarter, Jan
uary &.
Credit for work done in military
camps will be granted by the university
faculty, and every inducement will be
offered students who have been kept
from entering the university because
they were doing other kinds of work.
Every department and college of the
university is offering new courses for
the winter quarter; and by speeding up
the work, many students who have fall
en- behind will be able to graduate with
their classes.
Short courses in mining, dairying
| and forestry will begin January &.
These courses are intensely practical.
Most of the students time is spent in
the labratory working out the prob.
lens he meets in his business. Only a
short time each day is given to the
theoretical side of the work. Profess
sors in charge of these courses believe
that the theory can be taught in the
laboratory and enforced by practical
examples more effectively than by read.
ing text book.
Laboratories for these short courses
are unusually well equipped. Students
who take dairying will have the oppor.
tunlty OF working with the university's
prize herd of cattle. Students taking
mining will have the opportunity of
observing the methods of the fedora
bureau located here.
Courses in rural sociology and eco.
nomics, new courses i'm law. courses In
European history and In contemporar
literature will he offered next ouarter
to help the students understand the
problems involved in a nations recoy.
cry from great war.
WORK in news writing will be offered
by the English department In order ia
train students to observe and report
accurately the happenings of the day
1t Is expected that this work will be
valuable to all students and not only
those who intend to follow iournal ism
as vocation.
Beginning and advanced courses I'M
Spanish will be offered if there is suf.
fnlent demand for them. Spanish is
one of the most important languages
as far as American commerce il con.
cerned, according to Professor Shell
who will be in charge of the work.
University extension courses will con.
tinue next quarter. Tie university Is
anxious to carry its work of education
into the state and make il possible fo,
all to get the training they need.
Perhaps no line of work has been
hit as hard as education by the nres.
ent war" said Prof. +. NJ. Erickson
American educational theory has been
largely Influenced by German ideals
and now it is necessary to reconstruct
our thinking along more independent
/ lines"
The university is facing the prob.
lems or reconstruction squarely" was
president Lindley's conclusion. I'VE