University of Colorado - Coloradan Yearbook (Boulder, CO)

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EXTENSION DIVISION ill t; Dean Elmore Petersen O wrest truth from the infidel of ignorance, to possess those spots in our civiUzation consecrated by the lives of those who have gi ' en themselves in the cause of education, and to make available to all the people of the commonwealth the benefits of the learn- ing process and the fruits of research — these are the ideals of University Extension. University Exten- sion is distinctly an educational movement, but it represents a new force, a new passion inspired in its ranks, with all the virtues of gallantry, courage, un- selfishness and magnanimity that characterized the Crusaders of another sort eight centuries and more ago. It has been said that to grasp the Crusades is to comprehend one of the forces which changed the institutions of the Middle Ages. Likewise to understand University Extension is to recognize the full significance of an idea that is giving a new impulse in our social and economic structure. This Crusade is new, relatively, in the United States. In one of its present aspects, that of home study, it appeared first as a definite department in the char- ter of the University of Chicago when that institution was founded in 1890. At the University of Colorado the University Extension birthday occurred in 1912. P ' rom the embryonic beginning of a staff of one person and almost no funds, in eighteen years it has grown to an operating staff of twenty-five with almost half of the resident faculty as its force of instructors, lecturers, and ad- visors. It has been a period of crusading, of pushing forward toward an ideal undaunted by real or imaginary obstacles. It has been far from romantic, for its results in achievement have often been unforeseen. Nevertheless, there is hardly an element of interest to the people of Colorado that has not been served by the l niversity through this vehicle, directh ' or indirectly. The teaching function is not its only purpose, but its attention is directed to affairs of business industry, government, health, public schools, the press, directed reading, public discussion, and a hundred more. The intellectual needs of the times have made the case for the existence of University Extension. Its crusade goes forward under the banner of service. Ei.MORE Petersen. 1 1. Page 22

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DliAN II. C. Washhlkn COLLEGE OF PHARMACY Ph. C. THE College of l ' hariiiac - was organized as .i deiKirtmeiU of the Siliool of MediciiU ' in 1911. l- i(im llu ' er ontset il lias clnng steadfaslK ' to tlie l)rin(i|)le of higli academir standards. While none of the schools of pharinacN ' in the west were et re- quiring high school graduation as a prerequisite for entrance, this lone pioneer elected to require that its matriculants possess the same educational standards as other departments of the University: (iraduation from a standard four- ear high school. This was the first crusade, the first conquest against the existing order of things. With the above achievement as a beginning, the Department of Pharmacy set out in quest of new worlds to conquer. In 1913 it was separated from the School of Medicine and made an integral iiart of the rni ersit - the College of Pharmacy. Then came the war and with it the usual patriotic impulse of the pioneer — the crusader. Three members of its immediate faculty and every male student, about fifteen, entered the military or naval service. The College had to be almost entirely reconstructed after the cessation of hostilities. In 1919 a three years minimum course of academic work was required. This was six years before a similar reciuirement was demanded by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmac -, and was the second College of Pharmac - in the countr - to make such a recjuirement. Not satisfied with the ai)ove noted achievements, the College of I ' li.irmacy launched upon still another conquest, the object of which was to secure for the citizens of this .stale the health-conserving protection of a graduation prerequi- site law. The cru.sade for this piece of constructive legislation was launched by the College as early as the spring of 1912, but was destined to bear fruit after a seventeen -ears struggle. An act was passed in 1929 recjuiring all candidates for registration as pharmacists must possess a diploma from a recognized college of pharmacy. Tlie im[)ort of the above achievement is far reaching. It deftniteK- places CoU rado in the group of progressive states who.se onward march towards better things can not be sta ed. It insures to the people of Colorado the iiighest standards of skill and service in that branch of health service that lies nearest to the heart of that greatest of .ill .American institutions — the home. HoMi K C. W NniuK . i Jt Pair 11

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SUMMER QUARTER Dkan M. ( ' .. DiKii.wi T)! . IT kiidwn that in the year of our Lord IS ' .], - stiHui lortli Louis Agassiz. being a man of great accomplishments. He assembled a council of the chiefs of Har ard, ancient seat of learnini; in ( an- tabrigia. So great was this man ' s knowleflge and so ardent a zealot was he for its extending, that iu ' besought those assembled to look with fa or on an ad enturing of which no man had bethought himself up to that d,i -. As the great scholar wrought wiili them, main- were the words spoken for and against. But in the end, all were of one mind that Agassiz had a right intention in instituting in the name oflearning a bloodless crusade against the long summer vacation, hitherto held in most sacred regard b - those grim professors who devoted it to no other occupation than the amassing of facts to hi! imjiressive tomes wherel) ' their renown was spread afar: and by students who were minded to have their time in peace and quiet and dalliance therein. Loud were the outcries and furious tin- erba1 onslaughts lainiched In their stiff-necked enemies uiion the dought - knights of the new Crusade. But in the progress of time, the crowds of pilgrims with holy zeal for learning, coming in constantK from all quarters, the adversaries were forced to relinqui sh their endeavors. And now in almost every city, village and hamlet in this fair land, the banners of the victors are raised on high by immense multitudes of pilgrims during each summer covering the whole face of the countr . .• nd so it hap[)ened that in 1904, a certain counsellor going to the President of the University, thus addressed him: Sire, I would that we might join in this new Crusade, of which fair tidings come to me. Certes, said the President, it is a great thing you advise and jiropose, and well it .seems that you have in view a high enterprise. Take good heed to its doing. So it befell that very summer that Boulder beheld in her fair precincts a little band of seven- teen knights nul a chosen company of si. l - brave and adventurous youths. Who can relate the progress from this modest beginning? Be it known that in the summer just past, might be seen here an army of two hundred knights and .S,4G0 followers journe ing from far and near under the ensigns of the latter-day Crusade. Mii.o G. Dfrii. m. I ' age 2}