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in the present tense, but service for "all time to come." Apparently as 

 immense degree of satisfaction is obtained in doing good for the very love 

 of it and the person who can penetrate the future furthest with a cor- 

 rect vision is the one who most fully enjoys life and has the most prom- 

 ising impressions of the future. This is most forcibly evidenced in the 

 splendid work of our humane societies, Red Cross and other relief organi- 

 ations, public libraries, and various endowment funds, all pointing clearly 

 to the fact that modern man is, more than ever before, built along lines 

 of public service, and is, therefore, incomplete without it. 



"Agricultural College Extension Service" 



Eight years ago, our extension service consisted alone of "farmers 

 institutes," since which time have been added: 



Regular lectures; special lectures; movable schools; farm inspection; 

 farm demonstration; superintending of construction; construction of county 

 fair exhibits; judging county and other fairs; demonstration of judging 

 methods; superintending state fair; district agricultural agents; county 

 agricultural agents; insect control; veterinary service; purchasing and sales 

 service; cooperation with clubs, churches, woman's auxiliaries, high schools, 

 boards of health, social centers, literary societies, and Young Men's Christian 

 Associations; social surveys; editorial work; mechanical application and 

 demonstration; highway engineering — plans and supervision; drainage en- 

 gineering; irrigation engineering; home economics; domestic science; do- 

 mestic art; demonstration of above; correspondence course on above; or- 

 ganizating for the promotion of any and all of the above. 



Our extension service is now administered by 41 specialists, each in 

 charge of the detail of his respective lines, managed by one dean of 

 extension, one superintendent, one assistant superintendentt, the whole in 

 cooperation with, and subservient to the general departments of the college. 



"Standing" 



We feel that we can safely say that "college extension service" is the 

 newest, most far-reaching, and we believe, one of the most popular means 

 for the acquisition, systematizing and dissemination of knowledge; that 

 kind of knowledge which prepares a person for his "life's work." 



"Seeing Things Rightly" 



If we will see things as they are — for "things are not always as they 

 seem" — we will realize that, to the youth, life is so largely an "exploring 

 expedition." We shall not expect to find "old heads on young shoulders" 

 no more than we should to find young heads on old shoulders. We Will 

 realize that our Creator has decreed that the natural course of procedure 

 for humanity-in-the-making is to be a "faddist" — to ride to death one 

 "hobby" after another, until the young man has reached about the age of 35, 

 and the young woman about the age of 28, — if you could find out her age — 

 at which time, on an average, they shall have mounted that hobby which 

 was to have become their "life's work." 



"Our Life's Work" 



We would, therefore, then, expect to find the citizen of Switzerland, 



