University of Wisconsin Madison - Badger Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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PRESIDENT E. A. BIRGE WROTE in the Badger of last year that the University was entering on the work of the new era that follows the war. The year certainly carried out my statement: for a more youthful, exuberant lot of students than those of last year probably never came together on a university campus. But something of that exuberance seems to have already passed and the present year bids fair to have a better business record than its predecessor. Every year the University is sending out into the state a thousand or more graduates - a full regiment according to the old enumeration of armies. This regiment of youth, trained as college can train them, in some line of thought or activity, is the great contribution of the institution to the state - a contribution whose value is permanent and increasing as the lives of the graduates become a vital part of the common life of the state, and as years bring them increasing influence. And every year a new regiment goes out, not as in war to replace its predecessor, but to be added to the working and thinking forces of the state. Besides this great work the University reaches the state life through innumerable chan- nels, each smaller but collectively of great importance. Agriculture, by experiment, by extension, by local branch stations, by county representatives, is continually at work to shape for the better the operation of our farms and to raise the standards of rural life. Extension touches the life of the state in countless ways, both in the urban and rural dis- tricts. It operates through local workers and by material and persons sent out from Madison. These are mere hints at aspects of a life of learning in active operation centered at Madison and extending its influences everywhere. But for you, who are represented in the Badger, as for the state, the largest aspect of the University is that which you share here as you prepare yourselves for a better service and a larger life in the years to come. Madison, December 16, 1920. I L 1 President.

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