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

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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.”

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