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THE COLLEGE OF HAW AIL 
Department of Extension Work — Correspondence Courses. 
PURPOSE. 
The College of Hawaii, an institution supported by taxation, 
should extend its services to the people by all possible ways com- 
patible with the best methods of college administration. While 
adequate provision should be made and fostered for collegiate 
work in residence, yet there exists in the community a large class 
of persons who for one cause or another are unable to adjust 
themselves to our formal system of education. Such persons 
manifestly have some claim upon the Territory for assistance in 
education outside the formal system. By correspondence study 
such persons may acquire knowledge in accordance with their 
requirements and capacities. While there are very good reasons 
for students coming to the College for their instruction, there are 
also good reasons for the College going to the people ; and more 
especially when the College offers instruction in subjects pertain- 
ing to the vocations of life. 
That people may be taught in many of the subjects of the 
school and college curriculum through correspondence study is a 
demonstrated fact, and while the method lacks some of the ad- 
vantages of resident study, it has certain advantages of its own. 
Among other things, it has a tendency to encourage self-reliance 
and self-determination. It affords earnest persons the oppor- 
tunity of working and studying at the same time, and each stu- 
dent gets individual instruction. On the other hand, advanced 
subjects requiring extensive laboratory equipment are at a dis- 
advantage, as the manipulation of laboratory apparatus may not 
be taught by correspondence. 
The specific classes of persons that correspondence study is 
designed to benefit may be enumerated as follows : 
1. Those who wish to learn but who are prevented from at- 
tending the College by exigencies of employment or place of 
living. 
2. Those who find new demands made upon them by the 
progress of the industry in which they are engaged. 
3. Those who are engaged in manual employments and who 
wish some mental activity to occupy their leisure hours. 
PLAN and SCOPE. 
The College offers through correspondence study the follow- 
ing subjects : 
Soils and Crops, Plant Life, Horticulture, Poultry Husbandry, 
Domestic Science, Zoology. 
