University of Maine - Prism Yearbook (Orono, ME)

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EXTENSION • SERVICE - .•■•£ :: ■ Something like the traditional sale bill, names of University of Maim- graduates now in the Extension Service are too nu- iiK-n his t mentii in. small number of state leaders ami .dist have their headquarters at the University. A much larger number, how- ever, reside in tin- counties which the) serve. Improved practices relating to tin- farm and home arc carried to cooperating individ- uals in over 300 tow ns of the state. Through- out tin ' countryside the inquiring mind and the seeing eye will detect unmistakable evi- dence of this service from the University. Each year between twelve and fourteen thousand Farm Bureau members voluntaril) pay their dues to aid in the support of the educational program which local citizens have determined. Practical fact-, disclosed in the labora- tory test tube or otherwise, are quickly set at work for the benefit of Maine citizens. In this manner the boundaries of Maine be- come the University campus. The Extension Service as it is known today had its beginning in 1912. The funds at first were provided by the General Education Board of New York, hut in 1 1-4- Congress passed the Smith-Lever Act to make the work possible through the support of public money. Information reaches the people by means of demonstrations, meetings, per- sonal visits, publications, the press, and the radio. Window Hall, scene of Farm ami Home Week activities Extension Service members gather at Orow

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SUMMER SESSION ■ For six weeks during July and August, the annual University of Maine summer schoi il will be in session. ( Iffering over a hundred courses in 17 departments, the session yearly attracts an enrollment of nearly 350 teachers, superin- tendents, supervisors, and students. Prof. Roy M. Peterson, of the Depart- ment of Romance Languages, the director, presents during ' summer school a complete program of scholastic and social activities. The calendar includes a visit to the Black Mansion in Ellsworth, a trip to Lakewood, tour of Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park, Moosehead Lake and Mount Kineo, a boat cruise on the 1 ' enobscot. and the an- nual University picnic. Luring the 1934 session. Dr. Arthur A. I Luck made his first official address to the students as President of the University. Shakespeare ' s Twelfth Night, starring Maude Adams on a tour of Maine, played before a large summer school audience in the Little Theatre. Prominent among the faculty this summer will be Wilfred John Hinton, now at the Institute of Hankers in London, a professor of history, government, and economics. Others include: Prof. Helen Patch, of the Department of French at Mount llolyoke; Miss Adelaide Linnell, director of Music at College Training School; and Prof. Lawrence P.. Hill, of the Department of Education of West Virginia. Looking down the campus in mid-Julj picnic at Pushaw Lake during the summer session

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C L A S [Cp 1 1 R years, the bell in W Lngate ■ • Hall has sounded upon the tide of students who lia e passed through the doors of the I ni- versitj of Maine. From its loft tower, it lias seen them enter as Freshmen, grow into Sophomores, expand as Juniors, and then, when the Senior year arrives, move sadly from their University into the World. And. if the old hell could talk — sa e with the same mechanical mono- tone with which it has begun and ended a thousand classes — what a narrative it might unfold. Matters of little moment; matters of much. Through days and years it has watched them —