Public information.-The extension division is the distributing agency for such material as the university is able to gather and to put into usable form for the citizens of the State. Inquiries are answered by the division staff and university professors.

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, DIVISION OF UNIVERSITY

EXTENSION.

General education section.-Publications. Appointment bureau; the bureau conducts student employment, teacher appointment, and general alumni appointment. General information service. Educational meetings and conventions. Educational measurements.

Extra-mural instruction department.-Formal instruction. Class instruction is conducted by the regular university faculty. Courses for credit include a wide range of standardized university courses of the same grade as those offered on the campus. Correspondence instruction. Formerly the extension division utilized those resources available from the University of Chicago. The division has assumed exclusive control and administration of this work and offers courses of its own.

Lectures. The regular staff of the university is used by this bureau. Single lectures, with a wide range of subjects, are offered. No university credit is given.

Community center. The bureau does work in Americanization, conducts school and social surveys, investigations, research, and gives expert advice on community problems.

Public service department.--Informal instruction. Package Library Bureau. The bureau furnishes briefs, bibliographies, and club study programs. In addition to the stimulation of debates and literary activities in high schools, the bureau conducts a large debate and literary contest for high-school students on the university campus.

Visual Bureau. The bureau lends lantern slides owned by the university and educational motion picture films contributed by industrial concerns or furnished by the United States Bureau of Education.

School relations. The bureau has charge of high-school visitation, interscholastic contests, and student welfare.

Business and commercial development.-Business surveys; business short courses; cooperative work with commercial clubs.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA, EXTENSION DIVISION. Correspondence courses.-The courses are based on textbooks, special reports, and special references furnished by the university library, and on special correspondence by the professor giving the course. A final written examination is given.

Extension classes.-The work is conducted by regular members of the faculty who meet extra-mural classes on Friday evenings and Saturdays in various parts of the State. Classes are held every four weeks and written work is done in the interim. Courses offered in education, sociology, economics, fine arts, and languages. Department of visual instruction.—Slides, films, and charts are circulated in the

State.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, EXTENSION DIVISION.

EXTENSION TEACHING.

Correspondence instruction.-Courses are given for university credit, entrance credit, preparation for teachers' examination. Courses cover many subjects, including business and vocational work. Courses in law are given without credit.

Group study courses.—These are offered for women's clubs, teachers, business men, labor unions, mothers' clubs, literary societies, etc. Instruction is given through the medium of an outlined course, the instructor keeping in touch through correspondence

and personal visits. A reference library is available. The courses are a combination of the correspondence and lecture plan.

Extension classes.-Classes not provided for in the regular university curriculum are conducted either by university instructors or other competent persons.

PUBLIC WELFARE SERVICE.

Bureau of home welfare.-Lecturers and demonstrators attend fairs and county educational meetings. "One-week schools' are held for women's organizations. Bulletins are published.

Division of information.-The division furnishes instruction and entertainment by exhibits, slides, films, music, etc. It also circulates package libraries and answers requests for information.

Public lectures and publicity.—Information is given on questions of the day, and on phases of literature, science, and art.

School interests.-A university interscholastic league has been organized. The bureau conducts contests in debate, declamation, spelling, vocational work, and athletics. It strives to promote the school as a community center, particularly in rural districts. It conducts county educational campaigns. The university provides two rural specialists for educational campaigns in rural districts.

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, EXTENSION DIVISION.

Bureau of instruction.-Extension classes and correspondence study. Courses in business, trades, and industries, mining, and special courses for teachers and for mothers. Classes are formed upon the application of 10 people for the same work. Bureau of public service.—Community and health institutes are conducted by the bureau. Child welfare work is supervised. Cooperative work is done with the State and National Government in baby-saving campaigns. The general work of the bureau covers water supply, sanitation, recreation, playgrounds, public improvements, lighting systems, street pavements, libraries, social conditions and needs, public

accounts.

Visual instruction.-Slides and films circulated in the State.

General information service.—The bureau invites inquiries upon any subject about which it may be supposed to possess information. It disseminates information through bulletins and the press. It conducts a high school debating league.

Lectures and entertainments.-The bureau acts as an exchange for lecturers and artists. A list of the lectures available is published in the extension announcement. Teachers' service.-With the cooperation of the State board of education and the Utah Educational Association, the extension division publishes "The Utah Educational Review."

Americanization and educational work.-Special lectures, institutes, training of teachers, vocational instruction.

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, EXTENSION DIVISION.

Instruction by lectures. Debate and public discussion. Package libraries. Virginia high school quarterly. Bureau of publication. Bureau of appointment. War extension service.

State Geological Survey and State Forestry department. These two departments devote practically all their time to extension work.

Moonlight schools, medical dispensaries, and rural life conferences are carried on by the Y. M. C. A. extension service. The conference is in connection with the summer school, and is held for one week. The proceedings are published and widely distributed.

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, EXTENSION DIVISION.

DEPARTMENT OF INSTRUCTION.

Correspondence study in academic and noncredit courses.

Extension classes are held in seven different cities. Evening classes are held at the university.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY SERVICE.

The bureau of lectures offers medical lectures and clinics. Lectures are offered in series, and in courses.

Bureau of debate and discussion.-The bureau circulates package libraries, biblıographies, etc. It also issues debating bulletins, containing outlines of subjects of debate.

Bureau of municipal and legislative research.-The bureau collects statutes, ordinances, charters, and other documents. The chief of the bureau is secretary and treasurer of the League of Washington Municipalities which issues a bulletin entitled "Washington Municipalities."

Bureau of civic development. The bureau extends advice to centers and civic clubs, and gives general service to community centers.

State tax conference. Annual newspaper institutes. School surveys. Mineral collections. Educational surveys. General information. Publications. Journals, bulletins, circulars of information, etc.

NOTE.

Some extension work not administered by the extension division is as follows: Psychological clinics; laboratory examination of children. The college of mines issues bulletins, holds a three months' training session for miners, and does laboratory work.

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, EXTENSION DIVISION. Department of correspondence study.—Instruction is given by correspondence and in class groups. A list of the courses offered is given in the extension announcement. Department of instruction by lectures.-University lectures are given singly and in series. In addition are offered concert recitals and reading programs. Institutes, conventions, commencements, etc., are provided for.

Department of debating and public discussion.-Bulletins, with facts, arguments, and selections of bibliographical character, are available on a number of questions. Package libraries, newspaper clippings, documents, publications. Study outlines and programs for clubs. Assistance in the writing of essays, themes, and orations.

Department of general information and welfare.--This department constitutes a clearing house through which inquiries on general matters are given attention. Various methods of disseminating information are utilized, including publication of nontechnical reports and the employment of experts for welfare work in local communities. Other activities supervised or conducted by this department are community institutes, social service institutes, special conferences, vocational institutes, exhibits, community center promotion, service to civic and commercial clubs.

Bureau of municipal reference.--The bureau collects and furnishes technical information on all subjects of organization and administration and other problems. Municipal and sanitary engineering service.--Assistance is given communities in the solution of problems of municipal and sanitary engineering.

Bureau of community music and drama.- The bureau offers the service of a leader for the organization of community choruses, dramatic clubs, lectures, etc. It prepares school and community programs, organizes literary and musical contests, lends phonograph records, and gives other assistance.

Health instruction bureau.-The bureau conducts a news health service, cooperates with State boards in health propaganda, assists in training public health nurses, publishes nontechnical bulletins on health subjects.

Bureau of visual instruction.-The bureau makes studies of materials and methods of illustrative teaching. It collects, produces, and distributes lantern slides, motion pictures, and other materials for use by schools and organizations.

Slides and films are lent in circuits, especially among schools. In addition, service is given to schools and civic organizations not in circuits. During the year 1917-18 nearly 42,000 lantern slides on more than 250 subjects and 510,000 feet of motionpicture film on 175 subjects were available to borrowers. Seven circuits were established for 21 weeks in succession.

In 1918-19 the available stock of slides was greatly increased and the number of films made available for lending was nearly doubled. The bureau secured and put in circulation many slides and films on war emergency, patriotism, Red Cross, food conservation, and other timely subjects. The number of borrowers increased greatly over the period 1914-1916. In the biennium of 1916-1918 there was a growth of over 70 per cent in the number of slides sent out and nearly 250 per cent in the number of films lent.

Bureau of postgraduate medical instruction.--Six-day courses of instruction are given to physicians by lecture and clinic. Courses were held in nine different cities in 1918-19.

NOTES.

The division conducts a press service, which sends a weekly bulletin to 400 Wisconsin newspapers.

The university has established a chair of Americanization, and the extension division cooperates with the professor in charge of the work.

Much of the local work is administered through six districts with resident staff officers in the following cities: Milwaukee, Oshkosh, La Crosse, Superior, Wausau, and Eau Claire.

UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING, EXTENSION DIVISION.

Division of correspondence study.-Credit courses are given under limited conditions. Noncredit courses are also offered. Courses are given in accounting, agriculture, education, engineering, home economics, etc.

Traveling libraries.-Traveling libraries are lent to individuals and organizations. They consist of 20 or more books of fiction, history, science, travel, etc.

Lecture courses and university centers.--Lecture courses are arranged free except for expenses. Courses are offered in literature, education, political science, etc. Combinations of class, correspondence, and club study are held in different centers of the State. The centers are under the direction of local leaders, and the work is supervised by university professors.

General information.-Inquiries received through the mail on special and general subjects are answered through the division by specialists in the various university departments.

GENERAL EXTENSION IN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES.

Several agricultural colleges are developing general extension service in addition to agricultural extension. This is the case in Mississippi, Maryland, and Maine, where general extension has not been established heretofore. In Washington the State college at Pullman has obtained legislative appropriation for general extension. Doubtless the agricultural college will divide the field of work with the University of Washington.

The Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College maintains, besides the cooperative extension division, a "service bureau," or "extramural division of the college work."

The service bureau is a branch of the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College which seeks to expand into the broadest possible field the varied activities of the institution. To this end the bureau endeavors to act (1) as a clearing house to make available for the whole State the valuable information accumulated by the agencies of investigation and research which are parts of the college; (2) to extend through the department of correspondence study the exact knowledge imparted by the department of collegiate instruction; (3) to offer through the package libraries to schools, clubs, and other organizations, and interested individuals, the resources of compact and accurate libraries on a host of present-day topics of the moment; (4) to collect and to lend, through the department of visual instruction, both slides and films of an educational nature; (5) to supervise the agricultural work and the publicity department.1

The department of correspondence study offers courses in agricultural engineering, astronomy, chemistry, civics, dairy husbandry, education, English, home economics, poultry husbandry, public discourse, business law, etc.

The general information service disseminates information both through newspapers and by correspondence. "It invites requests for any kind of material which has relation to the economic, social, intellectual, or religious life of the people."

Visual instruction.-The department lends slide sets on subjects in agriculture, "industry, patriotism, and general culture," and reels of motion pictures on similar subjects.

The package library department lends packages on over 300 subjects "of interest to students of educational or civic topics."

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1 Excerpt from catalogue of Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1918.