Show LITERARY LI EI A RV Edit Editor 01 Chronicle I was pleased to learn from your last issue that the CHRONICLE is sufficiently Cosmopolitan to be interested in education education education tion outside of the University as well wen as inside I fully agree with you in thinking thinking thinking think think- ing that the time has come when University University University Uni Uni- Extension should be earnestly undertaken in Utah It is true that we live in an age of fads an age when the thing presents itself under very diverse forms but from the character of the men engaged in University Extension work as well as from the valuable results already already achieved I believe that this is a practical cal movement which meets a definite public demand I like your idea that II every ever schoolhouse should be an intellectual intellectual intellectual intel intel- focus II It is eminently true and this desirable end can be obtained in no better way than by offering deep and broad instruction in it during the school day and using it as a place of meeting for popular instruction during durin the evening I have before me as I write a report which shows that almost every State t tate in inthe inthe inthe the Union has organized Extension Centers which are doing regular work not simply listening to an occasional lecture but taking courses of from six sixto sixto to twelve lectures and devoting enough time to outside reading and study to enable the members to pass an examination examination examination examina examina- tion on the ground covered by the lecturer lec lec- If such work is to be done in Utah it is is highly fitting that it it should be inaugurated by the teachers who have been students of the University of Utah Several Se members of the University staff have outlined courses of study which they are willing to supplement by lectures whenever it is possible to do so Will not some wide-awake wide teachers take up the cause and organize a few centers so that the world may see what the fertile intellectual soil of Utah can produce C. C A. A Whiting lg 0 |