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

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school positions, there is established this year a School of Education in the University of Idaho. This School will give definite courses of study leading to degrees of B.A. in Education and B.S. in Education, and will train Idaho students for service in the greatest vocational field in the world—the voca- tion of teaching. The School of Education at the University will articulate with the State Normal Schools at Lewiston and Albion and the Technical Institute at Pocatello. Graduates from these institutions will be permitted to enter the Junior class with certain adjustments and complete their college work, approximately, within two years. This School of Education is an indication of a great increase in the size of the University of Idaho. It must be taken into full consideration in answering the question: How large is the University ? Next in importance to the great vocation of teaching is the vocation of business. Hitherto, the University has ‘been unable to organize a School of Business because of insufficient financial support. If the plans now under consideration can be realized, there will be established at an early date a School of Business which will furnish a new standard for measuring the size of this institution. ‘The value of this service cannot be estimated. Many of its results are intangible. They deal not only with the training of business experts, but schools of business also consider the countless details of conservation and expansion of commercial relations. Another answer to this oft-repeated question: How large is the Uni- versity? is found in the recently established University Extension Service which is intended to render similar service to cities and towns that is given by the University Agricultural Extension Service to rural communities. Provision is made for correspondence work in 67 courses, and there will be lectures and entertainments dealing with 50 and more subjects. This agency, together with News Letters, bulletins and folders, will serve thou- sands of citizens who have not hitherto been enrolled in the group of University students. ‘The measure of an institution’s size must include quality as well as quantity of numbers and service. It should be noted that during the past year there has been special attention given to cultural activities on the campus—noted lecturers from great centers of culture, east and west, musical artists of superior training and ability, and exhibitions of paintings from worthy artists have enriched the quality of our immediate University life during the past year. It is the intention of the Board of Regents to foster increasingly this movement for the enrichment of mental and spiritual culture at the University. There is deep regret on the part of faculty, students and alumni because athletic expressions have not registered more promisingly during the last two years. There is ample reason for such despondency. Fortunately, we are not a people who are without hope. It is realized that there are great possibilities resident at the University in the 500 and more students, and these possibilities may be realized under the right leadership and thru a closer and more patriotic co-operation on the part of all concerned. It is believed that the athletic answer to the question, How large is the Uni- SeTTTTVT TST T TTT Tria t i HUTT] PULL it it LL 1 TTT TT tl TTT Thirteen

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richer mental and social life, and encourage more loyal and patriotic citizenship. Intimately associated with the Extension evidences of University growth are surveys of various kinds which the University has contributed this past year. Illustrations of this University expression include surveys of soil, plant diseases, poisonous plants, climatic effects upon vegetation, orchard control and improvement, water relations to plants, animal diseases and control, and numerous other topics which require first-hand information. It is recognized by all intellectual people that the real mark of a university is research work. ‘True, a university is deeply concerned with teaching and with the distribution of knowledge which has already been acquired. However, to limit the modern university to this expression would be archaic and antique in every respect. No one save the most provincial in education attempt to limit university service to the function of teaching —important as that is. ‘Therefore, in harmony with the requirements of a modern university, encouragement has been given to very definite research during the past year. Some of this investigation is a continuation of that which has been carried on for several years, and some of it appears for the first time on the University campus. Special research has been conducted in studying problems of apple breeding, fruit and vegetable storage, animal feeding, animal breeding and hybridization, processing various woods, extracting by-products of woods, examining the records and the forms of municipal government, accumulating, analyzing, classifying facts with ref- erence to taxation, education and other industrial, scientific and civic activities. A further growth of the University of Idaho is registered by a move- ment which she initiated and which has resulted in an organization that might be termed a federation of Normal Schools, Colleges and Universities of Idaho, Montana and Washington. This federation is for the purpose of establishing intimate and co-operative relations among these various institutions in order that all may share their intellectual wealth and that the states represented may be served more effectively and more economically by their higher institutions of education. Perhaps the best concrete illustra- tion of this federation may be seen in the closer articulation of Washington State College and the University of Idaho. Plans have been initiated for establishing exchange lectureships between these institutions, and projects have been drawn whereby they may enter into definite co-operation in their extension and research service. In the state of Idaho there are over 100,000 children of school age, and there are more than 3,000 teachers employed in the rural, grade and high schools of the state. Possibly 20 per cent. of those teaching the Idaho youth are trained in Idaho institutions of higher education. While it is desirable and always will be proper to employ a large number of foreign trained leaders in education, it is manifestly wrong, if we have any hope of developing a true state of consciousness, to rely upon an overwhelming majority of teachers from other states. In order that the University may occupy her field more fully, that is the field of training teachers for high TTT TT TT — — | — i—4 — — ) oe |

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LILLE LLL LU TITITITITTVITIT TTT ALALALLL Fourteen versity? will be more satisfactory in the immediate future. It must be remembered, however, that the University greatness cannot be measured even in the extra class room expressions by athletics alone. Failures in that important department of University life ought not to cloud certain salient facts that are outstanding in other extra class room endeavors of our University. It is well to remember that our Debating teams have won notable victories, that our Judging teams have been awarded highest rank, that our Military Department has won distinguished success, and in one of the greatest industrial departments of the Institution there has been won a great national victory represented by Grand Champion honors being awarded Benefactor, the short horn steer, in competition with the winners of highest rank at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. It is universally recognized that Idaho is in great need of ready communication between its northern and southern communities. Lacking this, there must be organized and utilized definite agencies which shall make for unification and solidification of state spirit and state loyalty. Two notable contributions have been made thru faculty visitation of the high schools of the state and thru the services of the University Glee Club which have been extended to more than twenty towns of north and south Idaho during the current year. On the one hand, it has been possible to learn more definitely about the local problems in various portions of the state, and on the other, to relate the University more sympathetically, helpfully and attractively to the interests of various portions of the state. Financial limitations are alone responsible for certain strictures which have been placed necessarily upon these two agencies of inter-community relations between portions of the state and the University center at Moscow. The University of Idaho has grown beyond the stage where its size can be measured in the terms of number of students on the campus. That must always remain a most important measure of institutional greatness; however, in the modern state university, the students who never reach the campus outnumber those who are registered in the colleges and schools located in the central plant, more than 60 to 1. True, the 860 students who have enjoyed the privilege of the University halls during the past year have received more days of instruction and more intensive work than the‘ 50,000 and more who have not passed thru the material doors of the Uni- versity buildings, but who have received university teaching, nevertheless, The Board of Education and Board of Regents of the University of Idaho, the Commissioner of Education, the administration, the faculty and the students of the University of Idaho, and the citizens of the state have awakened to the true measurement of the University’s size. Expressed in power, its size is like that of a great power plant whose location is of no particular concern provided its heat, light and power service extend to all the lives which contribute to its support. Having awakened to this concept of how large the University is and should be, it is manifest that we are moving toward the realization of a democratic goal, toward an ideal which is expressed in the slogan, “the size of the University should be measured by service to every man, woman and child within our commonwealth.”