UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TEACHING PLUS DIRECT SERVICE TO THE STATE
University of Kansas a Striking Example of Modern Ideas in Education
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No Citizen Too Far Removed Today But That He May Draw on HIS University
Not less revolutionary than modern notions as to woman's place in affairs are the present day conceptions as to the proper place and work of a University, particularly a University supported by the state.
Always aware of its obligation to give as great direct returns to the state as its equipment and funds permitted, the University of Kansas has within the past ten years made great strides into new fields of usefulness, and at present is entering upon a plan of expansion that will place it abreast of the one university which has heretofore held the lead in doing practical work.
Lack of funds for state work has been a serious handicap in the past. Sometimes when emergencies have arisen, as in the case of danger threatening the health of the state and calling for work by the pure food and drug laboratories or the bacteriological laboratories, or danger to the crops of the state demanding instant attention from the entomological or horticultural departments, it has been necessary to employ funds set aside for other purposes. Then the warning has been heard that the University was forgetting its prime purpose of giving higher education to the Kansas youth.
Purpose of the University
But no University of Kansas administrator has ever lost sight of that purpose as laid down in the state constitution; "For the promotion of literature, and the arts and sciences, including a normal and agricultural department." Nothing in the academic work of the school warrants the charge that it has lost the vision of what a true university should aim at—in the words of John Henry Newman—"Raising the intellectual tone of society, cultivating the public mind, purifying the national taste, supplying true principles of popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, giving enlargement and sobriety to the ideas of the age, facilitating the exercise of political power, and refining the intercourse of private life."
The University has not been forgetful of its duties as a teaching institution; in fact it has broadened its scope in this field by reaching out into the state for the purpose of taking its educational facilities to those who are not able to enroll in its resident classes.
Correspondence Work
Three years ago the division of University Extension was established. Courses by correspondence were offered soon afterwards, and this year a special organizer has been put into the field to explain the advantages which the University offers through its mail department. It is now proposed to broaden still further the extension work by establishing in the principal cities of the state extension centers under the supervision of a local manager. This manager will direct the formation of classes, will distribute the printed matter sent out by the instructors and will arrange courses of lectures by professors at the head of the departments offering the work.
As an example of the manner in which the teaching function of the University grows into something broader, the recent history of the School of Medicine may be cited. This school was organized some years ago to turn out educated physicians. It was not long, however until opportunities for usefulness outside of the school itself began to develop. It was found possible to make bacteriological and chemical analyses for physicians of the state and thus aid in the treatment of disease. Analyses in typhoid cases and in cases of hydrophobia were made as early as 1903. For two years the University furnished an expert lecturer to conduct the tuberculosis exhibit sent out through the
state under the auspices of the State Board of Health.
This fall at Rosedale a new hospital was dedicated for the use of the School of Medicine and for the benefit of the state generally. It is a state hospital at which cases of indigent poor may receive treatment and in which particular attention will be given to the treatment of deformed children. Two baffling diseases, pellagra and infantile paralysis, have been studied by experts in the School of Medicine, and experiments are now under way to discover by the use of guinea pigs and monkeys the cause of pellagra and its possible cure.
It is proposed, if possible, to establish a hygienic clinic in the school for the purpose of studying cases of defective children and prescribing treatment. It is hoped that the means may be secured of offering to the people of the state generally advice in any needed cases for the care and treatment of backward or defective children.
In such departments as those on entomology and geology the activities of the instructors have far exceeded the original purpose of teaching the subject to students. The head of the Department of Entomology, for example, devotes the greater part of his time to his work as a member of the State Entomological Commission, looking after the welfare of orchards, vineyards and cereals half of the entire state. The head of the State Geologym of Geology is also State Geologist that capacity has issued reports of great value to Kansas industries. Such work as the survey and test of Kansas clays now being conducted, leads to the opening up of opportunities for new industries by the use of Kansas raw materials.
Formerly the curator of the museum devoted his time netely to that work. Two years ago, however, the University lent him to the state in order that he might perform the work of the Warden. He is now giving all of his time to this work under the direction of the Board of Regents.
The Fish Hatchery
The building at Pratt of the largest fish hatchery in the world has recently been authorized. It is now proposed to show the whole state the advantages of fish culture; the method by which every farmer may raise his own fish in his own ponds The Committee of Efficiency, appointed by the Kansas Commission of Higher Education, reported last week in favor of still further broadening this work by putting into the institutes courses in fish culture in order that teachers might be prepared to give such instruction.
When it was originally organized the school of Engineering was a teaching institution solely. It is still a teaching institution with some four hundred students, and a list of graduates numbering almost five hundred. But its expansion in the line of state work has been even more pronounced than its growth in number of students. One of its professors gives practically his whole time to problems of water supply and sewage disposal plants and sanitary engineering in connection with the State Board of Health. The testing laboratories handle almost daily some problem as to the best materials for road making, gas engineer and their operation, testing Kansas brick, cement and concrete. By recommendation of the Committee on Efficacy it is proposed that a high grade department of architecture be established and the plans be furnished free to counties and municipalities for all kinds of public improvements.
Pure Food for Kansas
In the chemical laboratories of the University experiments by students to master the intricacies of their subjects are carried on side by side with the extensive investigations of the Pure Food and Drug experts, the analyses of the natural waters in Kansas and of the water supplies of cities and towns, and analysis of milk in connection with the State Board of Health.
Pure Food for Kansas
A particularly interesting development of the work in chemistry is that of the industrial fellowships, of which there are now almost a score. The expense of these fellowships borne by private industrial organizations, but at the end of a short term of years, whatever discoveries have been made become the property of the public. Improvements in such matters as laudering, bread making, the manufacture of glass varnish and cement, the utilization of by-products from petroleum, the animal use of the glands of whales, etc., has already suggested the enhancement of the work into a school of specific industries. The courses in the Whale School
being given along various lines of business administration will, if the recommendation of the Committee on Efficiency is followed, be coalesced into an organized course, which shall cover business in its higher relations and, finally, issue in a School of Business Administration, in which young people may be fitted for a business profession.
The influence which the University has had on High School teaching in the state, through the establishment of academic requirements and its Department of High School Visitation, has been broadened by the organization two years ago of a complete School of Education. It is through this school that work intended to improve the mental physical and moral conditions of the young people in the lower grades is to be supervised. An investigator skilled in the subject of abnormalities in children was employed to plan and inaugurate the work this year.
A new feature of University work recommended by the Committee is its ability to integrate information in
With the completion of the new Administration Building, the first wing of which was occupied this fall the University will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. The anniversary comes in 1916, and it is hoped that the Administration Building may be completed by that time. The University has granted about 4,500 degrees and has more than four thousand living graduates. About half of the graduates reside in Kane-
The courses in the University now
Eight months practical forestry work are required in the forestry course given at the University of Missouri. This work is carried on in a permanent forestry camp established in the Ozark mountains where the university owns 50,000 acres of land.
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MANY COUNTIES GIVE TO DORMITORY FUND
Subscriptions Have Been Received From All Over the
$4000 HAS BEEN PLEDGED.
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Woman's Club of Lawrence Pledges
$25.00—The Alumni Who Gave
are From 29 Classes
are From 29 Classes.
Two hundred graduates and friends of the University, representing thirty-two counties in the state, have pledged a little over $4,000 toward the building of a dormitory for girls. Others from California have sent in their contributions.
Douglas, Dickinson, Reno, Linn, and Wyandotte lead in the number of persons making donations: while Douglas, Dickinson, Reno, Sedgwick, Doniphan and Mitchell lead when it comes to real money.
The Twentieth Century Club, a literary club of Lawrence, contributed $25 while Samuel Linscott chap-ed the book, R. of Horton sent in a check for $10.
Counties contributing are: Allen, Atchison, Butler, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas, Clay, Coffey, Cowley, Crawford, Ellis, Geary, Jackson, Johnson, Harvey, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, Mitchell, Montgomery, Ness, Norton, Ottawa, Reno, Republic, Rice, Sedgwick, Shawnee, Wilson and Wyndotte. Twenty-nine classes are represented, the classes of '55, '97, '96 and '98 leading the others in numbers and amounts pledged.
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TALES OF MONEY WONT LURE
Summer "Get-Rich-Quick Work" to be investigated by Bureau.
No more tales of fabulous fortunes from selling books during the summer will move a student to pay his cash for a prospectus, practice his "spiel" and go on the journey to "clean-up." That is, these tales will not have any weight with the Missouri students if the Y. M. C. A. employment bureau succeeds in putting through plans.
The Y. M. C. A. plan is to get the net results of the men who have gone out on these ventures. Where the particular plan seems good, from the figures and the statements the student who contemplates signing up for the deal can see what he is going into. This will not be limited to the book companies, but the results of every kind of business which draws students every summer, will be investigated. The Y. M. C. A. can then recommend the promising schemes.
The bureau will keep on hand the
names of working students who wish to take up this kind of work. They have on file applications from book companies, insurance men, calendar houses, aluminium ware and leather novelty dealers, map publishers and other businesses that desire men. The Review of Reviews will send a circulation man down to sign men to present magazine club offers to the public. One Iyceum bureau needs a man to promote concerts in Columbia.
The bureau will be run for the first time to aid the self-supporting summer school students.
The athletes who seek the harvest fields this summer for brawn and muscle will have a chance to know just where to go. J. S. More, Y. M. C. A. secretary, has written to the Kansas State Agricultural Commissioner for a list of the fields which need the hands—From University Missourian.
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THE
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
Has constantly increased its Resources since 1903 until it now has a balance of
$750,000
It pays for loss of one foot, one eye, or both hands, both feet or both eyes. Also at 70 years of age.
Men and Women Admitted on Equal Terms
Five Million Dollars Paid Beneficiaries!
A clean, clear cut Kansas institution which insures men and women at lowest rates compatible with good business.
H. E. DON CARLOS,
General President.
L. D. ROBERTS,
General Secretary.
T. J. SWEENEY,
General Treasurer