Mission of the Colleges 169 



dairy department of one of these colleges. 

 These institutions mean not one iota less than 

 the redirecting of the practices and ideals of 

 country life, and they are today making the 

 greatest single contribution to constructive 

 pedagogical policies and for the very good 

 reason that they deal with the commonplace 

 facts and necessities of life. There was a day 

 when universities tolerated instruction in agri- 

 culture. The time will soon be, if it is not 

 already here, when a university that is a uni- 

 versity must include agriculture. 



The extension work of the colleges. 



The extension effort is the most significant 

 recent development of these colleges. It is 

 an attempt to put the college in the way of 

 aiding every man to help himself on his own 

 farm. In this effort they have gone farther 

 than any other institutions and they are setting 

 an example for all institutions. Demonstration 

 work, reading-courses, surveys, and similar 

 enterprises, which are outgrowths of the col- 

 leges, are a part of this great extension move- 



