University of Idaho - Gem of the Mountains Yearbook (Moscow, ID)

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Ghe University of Idaho T is said that yesterday lives in today, and today will live in the tomor- row. This thot of continuance is illustrated by a question which is asked with reference to the University yesterday, today and tomorrow. How large is the University? Of the many inquiries made respecting the institution, this is the most frequent. There are many ways that the inquiry may be answered. Usually the question refers to the number of students enrolled in college work that is given on the campus. It might be answered by referring to the quality of the scholarship, the number of colleges in the University organization, the number of people included on the educational staff, the material resources of the institution, the extent and quality of research that is being conducted, and by the rank and height of extension service which is rendered to the entire commonwealth. Following the usual practice, it may be noted that the University of Idaho has the largest student enrollment in her history. Last year there were 658, and this year 860 names measure the student enrollment. These are distributed as follows: College of Letters and Science 328 College of Law... 34 College of Agriculture........... - $1 Summer School (net)...........- 246 College of Engineering......... =, (63: . Specially Courses......-a---.ccesennons 108 It is interesting to observe that 32 counties of the state are represented and that 44.4 per cent. of the regular college students are from south Idaho. This suggests that the bigness of the University may be expressed by its increasingly attractive power measured in the distance traversed by students who enter her college halls. The number of students carrying work of high quality is one of the most important measures of University size and growth, but modern higher education expresses itself today in numerous extra-campus activities. These must be noted and analyzed if one would determine the size of the modern state university. ‘These extra-campus activities are shown in many forms of extension and research service which are related to interests in remote parts of the state. An examination of Agricultural Extension records and a review of Extension work done by other divisions of the University of Idaho exhibit most interesting facts. These facts deai with numbers, namely, 40,000 and more people of Idaho have been served directly during the past year by the movable schools, the workers in home economics, boys’ and girls club work, agricultural specialists and University faculty members who have co-operated with their educational associates thruout the state. In other words, the community center idea has been promoted in countless ways by these representatives of the University of Idaho; the doctrine of co-operation and efficiency has been advanced earnestly by these teachers, who have worked in every county of the state. They have entered enthu- siastically into the discussion of better methods for the advancement of industrial relations in agriculture, in forestry and in mining, in order that there may be larger returns with which to build better homes, develope a