University of Wyoming - WYO Yearbook (Laramie, WY)

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ANNUAL BOARD John E. Anderson Editor-in-Chief Alice Downey .- ....- Associate Editor S. H. Knight Business Manager F. S. Sutphin ,.... - ...Advertising Manager DEPARTMENT EDITORS. Trace Foster... !.. Artists ...Marie Freeman Tech Davis Jokes... John Pierce Harry Rogers Athletics. C. Lynn Thompson Lucy Taylor Classes J. Francis Mc Bride Frank G. Swain. Music .Lewis Cook Margaret Arnold Literary.. Edith Hynds George Abbot Organizations Gerold Wichmann L Thayer Burgess .College Life Marjorie Garrett Lucille Wright... .Colleges... Oakley D. Overton Ross L. Bancroft .Military. Joseph Whitman Fred V. Skinner Society Gladys Corthell Lida Smith Assistants Elsie Lester

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in the way of physical or vocational training cannot be added, but must displace something we already have, and — what will it be? The technical and professional schools in this time of competition, strain every nerve to perfect the individual in his chosen vocation. Their primary and usually only object is the skilled engineer, physician, lawyer or teacher. What is true of these schools will be, to a certain degree, true of all schools — from the university to the grammar school — that prepare for a definite life work. The most impor- tant function of education — the making, first of all, true men and women of our boys and girls — will, for lack of interest and time, be omitted or at least greatly neglected, perhaps not in theory but in practice. Artisans, technical and professional men are made in com- paratively a short time, but the training of the children into noble men and women begins ' .n the primary class and should not end, as far as it is a duty of the teacher, until the student leaves college. Such training is the result of never ending care, watchfulness, administra- tion of discipline in its various forms, and devotion on the part of the teacher. No oppo ' ' - tunity should be missed — not even at the expense of technical instruction — to impress les- sons of honesty, truthfulness, integrity, self-sacrifice for the good of others, and of the many other irtues that make for true manhood and womanhood. This is the part of the teacher ' s work for which no scheduled time is allowed and for which he is never paid in dollars and cents, yet it should enter every teacher ' s ideal. It is for results of this kind of work that he scans the lives of former students who have taken their places in the rank of producers. Though, as teachers, we rejoice in the big salaries and high positions attained by former pupils, our main concern is their manhood and womanhood as exemplified in whatever posi- tion — high or lowly, large or small salaried. It is by the manifestation of these most desir- able qualities that the student can reward his teacher best for any part the latter may have had in the shaping of his life, and it is the student ' s success based on them that will bring the teacher the most gratifying compensation for a life devoted to his professional duties. Henry Merz.

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Extension of tne University r UNIOR Annuals are by custom mostly records of each passing year. Most of their pictures and articles are historical in character. Yet it is justifiable to show herein something of the plans and prospects of our University. The University has done what it could for the edu- cational betterment of Wyoming. Increasing numbers of young people have come to its class rooms and laboratories. More and more adults have sought its help for their intellectual and practical needs. All of this is full of promise. May we not profitably inquire about our immediate future and even make some prophecies of development? The present fortunate position of Wyoming with respect to higher education is familiar. But it is not even yet fully appreciated. Now and again some person expresses the belief that the State University should be dismembered by separation of its constituent colleges. One locality or another would like to have the local benefit of the presence of a fragment of the State University in its midst. The unhappy experience of sister states wherein the duplication of effort, the rivalry of organizations, the expensiveness of scattered institu- tions, lessen educational efficiency and embitter educational competition, must make well- informed citizens of Wyoming rejoice that their State University is located in all its parts complete under one Board in a single institution. What is now needed is that the State University should develop its services for all sections of the state by an Extension Department. This statement is not meant to imply that there is not serious need for large improvements in the internal organization, equipment, and activity of the University. It simply means that the Extension Department must be given special prominence as a new feature of higher education in Wyoming. Through the College of Agriculture and Experiment Station, the accumulated scientific knowledge worked out by experts will be brought to the practical service of all those engaged in ag i- cultural industries. The schools of the state, especially the high schools, will be encouraged to ask the aid of the University in all desirable ways for the improvement of their work. The communities desiring lectures in the great fields of human knowledge may obtain what they wish from the University. Individuals wishing to avail themselves of correspondence study may obtain such instruction under reasonable arrangements. Counties and munici- palities may apply to the University for expert advice on their practical problems. Boards of health will ask and receive expert service in the laboratories of the University in the pre- vention and cure of disease. In short, the University will be a teaching institution, a re- search institution, and an institution of public service and welfare. It IS to be hoped that this vision will be shared by all members of the University. Its ideals should be carried home to all quarters of the state by students and faculty alike. When this is done effectively, the University of Wyoming will command greater respect jf all the citizenship of the state. Upon this basis the University will receive generous support, not only from the public but also from individuals who will be glad to devote part of their wealth to public service through such a beneficent agency. C. A. DUNIWAY.