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 U. W. EXTENSION SMOKER AT MILWAUKEE
      (Report of the April meeting of the Merchants and Manufacturers
      association of Milwaukee, with extracts from stenographic report of
the
      speeches of President Van Hise, Professor Reber and Mr. MacKenzie.)
U   NIVERSITY extension, through     them personal assistance and encour-
   correspondence-study, lectures,   agement.  The bulletins and other
and publications, was discussed at the  publications, containing the results
monthly smoker of the Merchants and  of the investigations and experiments
Manufacturers association of Milwau-  braries at the university is also
kee on Tuesday evening, April 14. another     medium    through   which
President Charles R. Van Hise, Di-   scientific knowledge may be applied
rector Louis E. Reber of the Exten-  to the social and industrial needs of
sion Division, and Frederick W. Mac-  the people.
Kenzie, University Editor, were the    Recognizing  the  importance   of
speakers of the evening. Nearly two  this new   scheme of education   in
hundred of Milwaukee's leading busi- training mechanics and clerks, who
ness men    and  manufacturers at-   are not in a position to leave their
tended, and manifested the keenest   work to attend school, the officers
of
interest in this new field of the uni- the Merchants and  Manufacturers
versity's work.                       association decided to devote one of
  The last legislature appropriated  their monthly meetings to a discus-
$20,000 annually to the maintenance  sion of university  extension, with
of extension work in the university.  particular reference to its import-
Since then over eight hundred cor-   ance as a means of industrial edu-
respondence students have enrolled   cation in this state.  The approval
in the various courses offered under  with which the statements of the
the direction of the Extension Divi- speakers  were  received  and   the
sion, and new   students are being   hearty promises of support and co-
added to the list daily. In this way  operation which they drew from the
the university is reaching out a help-  businessmen augur well for the suc-
ing hand to a large body of people in  cess of the new department.
the state who are unable to attend     In speaking of the new trend of
school, and is more fully carrying out  university  extension  in this state
the policy of the president in making  and of its significance in the up-
the university the instrument of the  building of the state, President Van
state. A feature of this form of in-  Hise said, in part:
struction that makes it especially ef-  "The most fundamental thought
fective is the plan of sending out in-  which I have emphasized at the uni-
structors from the university to the  versity is that it shall be an instru-
various groups   of correspondence   ment of the state in its upbuilding.
students throughout the state to give  It is. usually taken for granted that