EXTENSION OFFICE. 



I. TEACHING. 



The one teaching course given by this office attempts to place 

 students in touch with the affairs of their communities through 

 study of the principles of organization and practice in the writing 

 and presenting of those subjects which concern the people in the 

 country. 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 for the past two years much 

 effort has been expended in preparation for the annual stage in 

 public speaking for the students in the College of Agriculture, there 

 is a most marked increase this year, due to the establishment of the 

 Eastman prize for public speaking, amounting to $ioo. This prize 

 is perhaps the largest ever offered in a college of agriculture for the 

 encouragement of rural leardership and the promotion of effective 

 self-expression. This public speaking work received mention in 

 the annual address of the Master of the State Grange last year. 

 The registration in the course. Extension 105, of fifty students has 

 taxed to the utmost the resources of the office, since the laboratory 

 work for this course consumes three laboratory periods a week, 

 calling for individual attention to each student in that laboratory 

 work. 



II. INVESTIGATION. 



No investigation is conducted by this office. 



III. EXTENSION. 



The extension enterprises of this office fall under three generai 

 heads : 



(i) The oral presentation of ideas. — Since the aim of the office 

 is to aid all departments of the college in giving lectures throughout 

 the State, and since the reports of these departments are not avail- 

 able in a central office, it is difficult to ascertain the actual number 



