Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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UM ' - J h m Piiblidty and Publications Why all this publicity.- Is it getting us anywhere? I ' or answer, go back to the university of three cen- turies ago. They burned educators at the stake in those days. Old Bruno suffered this fate for supporting the Copernican theory of the universe. Galileo, inventor of the timepiece, telescope, thermometer, compass, and microscope, had to publish his scientific findings anon- mously and finally was tried as a heretic and forced to recant to save his own life. He couldn ' t hold a uni- versity job because he differed with Aristotelian theories 2,(IOO ' years old. It ' s been several -ears now since they ' ve burned a professor at the stake but not many since they made one stand trial for educational heresy in Tennessee. Elsewhere in these United States the educators are pretty free to go as far as they like without fear of personal violence. Indeed, people spend tax money on ' research workers. Just look at the thousands of teachers, the hundreds of thousands of students, the millions of dollars for the schools! After all, now, our university in a very important sense is just a big publicity insti- tution, for teaching men and women better ways of living. It isn ' t enough simply to develop ideas within the college walls. That was the failure of education in Gahleo ' s day. He made discoveries as astounding as any of today, but they meant scarcely any- ' ' ' ' —- -- ■ -.derstood h the Frank R. Elliot Puhluils Din-clor thing to the people of his dav because those discoveries were not understood h people. ' —Frank R. Elliot. muc it isi ofHcc Ivy L. Chamiiess Direa,,T of Publication The publications office sometimes seems to be a ch misunderstood place. It isn ' t the publicity office; The Daily Student office; nor is it the alumni It is the office where official publications are compiled, edited, and sometimes written. It is also the office where an issue of the Alumni Quarterly is pro- duced each three months. The official publications include +6 regular issues each year, varying in size from a 4-page news-letter to the catalog of the University. The regular publi- cations are the Indiana University Bulletin, the Bulle- tin of the extension division, and the News-Letter, each issued 12 times a year; the Studies, which appear quarterly, and the Bulletin of the School of Education, each alternate month. The printing of almost all of these is done under state contract by an Indianapolis firm. Much time and correspondence would be sa ed if this printing could be done on the campus, but this is a dream of the perhaps far-distant future. — Ivv L. Chamxess. ■4 r„ L .A. -V

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S ' fli yllitinm ylssociatiou % The Alumni association of Indiana university ex- tends congratulations to the Class of 1928, and wel- comes them into the Alumni association. Indiana uni- versity has given its all to ou. Our splendid faculty- has contributed four years of its life to your develop- ment. The tax payers of the State of Indiana have coi:- tributed thousands of dollars for your benefit. Up to this time you have contributed nothing. You have been the recipient of their generosity. But this sacrifice of time, effort, and money has been for one great purpose. President Coolidge aptly expressed the situation when he told the graduating class of Amherst, Greatly have ou been taught — greatly must ou lead. The function of the Alumni association is to pro- President of .Huw,,-. Association vide a medium whereby the loyal sons and daughters of Indiana university can repay in a small way the debt the - owe her by uniting together in a correlati -e effort to fight her battles and assure posterity an even greater Indiana. This obligation cannot be lightly tossed aside — each and every one of us owe it. Indiana university needs your hel-p now. Remarkable strides have been made in the past few years, but we owe it to Indiana university to help make her the leading institution of her kind in the Middle West. The goal is not so •ery far away — with your help it can he done. — Allex G. Messick. m The Alumni office at Indiana university is main- tained for its alumni. Its purpose is to stimulate and promote education; to create for the alumni of Indiana uni ' ersity a cultural background, and to stimulate in the public mind a higher regard for the professions. The office is operated to maintain a contact between the University and its alumni for mutual benefit. The office hopes to be of greater ser- ' ice in the future than it has been in the past. We believe that education should not stop when a person leaves college and that he should be given an opportunity by the Uni -ersity to prolong his cultural contact with it. — George F. Heighw.ay. George F. Heighzcay Alumni Secretary l A,i

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N Library and Extension Division During the past two years, marked impro ' emcnt in the library has been made possible by increased appro- priations for the Uni ersitv bv the state legislatures of 1925 and 1927. In 1925 the legislature appropriated $325,000 for an addition to the library building and for new equip- ment. A new reading room, used at present as a reserve book room, has relieved the crowded condition of the old reading room and has opened the way to the use of the latter as a reference room. The card catalogue and the circulation desk are now housed in a separate room. This separation of the reference, reserve, and circulation departments have made for greater conven- ience to the clientele of the library and for more efficient work of administration. Additional space and equipment have about doubled the seating capacity of the library. It is hoped that the library has entered upon an era of greater usefulness and service for the entire University. — W. A. Alexander. The field of adult education is developing so rap- idly that it is difficult to give a futuristic picture of University extension work without seeming over-con- fident. Perhaps it is enough to say that though the movement in this country as it is now organized is only about a quarter of a century old, extension students in many states actually outnumber those residing on the campus. And for every student engaged in the formal pursuit of a classroom or correspondence course, there are several others who receive less formal assistance — different kinds of aids to home study through outlines, package libraries, bibliographies, motion picture films, and various other types of visual instruction, as well as direct guidance through community institutes, lec- tures, clinics directed by visiting nurses, and through various other expert services. In Indiana, for instance, last year nearly six thou- sand students were enrolled in extension classes, and an additional 1,900 were working on courses by mail. Some 150,000 people were served by the visual instruction department alone, and 18,000 people were aided through contests and discussions conducted in the schools. With totals as large as this acquired during a period of sixteen years, the extension division can cer- tainly look forward to a much larger enrollment as people generally realize the many services at their disposal. — R. E. Cavan.augh. 1 , ■ - m: