DEPARTMENT OF EXTENSION TEACHING. 



TEACHING. 



The one course in the curriculum given by this department attempts to 

 place students in touch with the affairs in their communities through 

 study of the principles of organization and practice in the writing and 

 presentation of country-life subjects. Parliamentary practice is made a 

 strong feature, that young men in the country may hold their own in 

 public debates. The instruction aims to keep alive interest in those 

 literary exercises, debates, and public discussions which so thoroughly 

 mark the country people as thinkers. It is hoped to maintain that interest 

 which formerly found its expression in spelling matches, debates, and the 

 old time " literary." 



While in the past two years much attention has been shown in the 

 preparation for the annual stage in public speaking in the College of 

 Agriculture, there is a marked increase this year, due to the establishment 

 of the Eastman prize of $ioo in public speaking for agricultural students. 

 This prize is probably the largest ever offered in a college of agriculture 

 for the encouragement of rural leadership and the promotion of effective 

 self-expression among agricultural students. Through the forces gen- 

 erated by this competition, new life will be infused into the economics and 

 politics of the country. This work received public mention in the annual 

 address of the Master of the State Grange two years ago. The registra- 

 tion in the course (Extension 105) of fifty students has taxed to the 

 utmost the resources of the department, since the laboratory or practice 

 work alone consumes four laboratory periods a week, calling for individual 

 attention to each student in the laboratory. This condition, which obtained 

 last year, will be felt more keenly this year, since the course has been made 

 of two hours credit rather than one hour credit. Notwithstanding this 

 and that it is open only to special students and juniors and seniors of 

 the regular course, the registration has increased to fifty-eight for the 

 coming year, calling for eight laboratory periods. 



EXTENSION. 



The extension enterprises of this department fall under three general 

 heads : 



I. The oral presentation of ideas. — It is the aim of the department to 

 aid all departments in the College in giving lectures throughout the State 



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