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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1912)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE 11 work among the children of the country. This plan in brief proposes to or ganize a Nebraska boys' and girls' club in every country school district in the state. This club will choose a leader, who will naturally be the teacher during the term of school, and in vacation period some other person chosen for especial fitness and interest. The leader will act solely in a supervisory capacity, the club choosing its own officers. Pro grams for contests in corn growing, stock judging, cooking, sewing, can ning fruits, etc., will be distributed from headquarters at Lincoln. The recreational side is not to be over looked, and suggested games, sports, etc., will also be given regular pub licity. The local clubs are further feder ated Into a county Boys' and Girls' Club, which is under the leadership of the county superintendent, each club being entitled to two delegates to the county organization, which, In turn, is entitled to two delegates to represent the girls' clubs and two to represent the boys' clubs at the an nual state meeting, which is to be held at the state farm at Lincoln for a week in May, the first meeting be ing held in May, 1913. At this state meeting a regular short course in agriculture and stock judging will be given under direction of the faculty of the Agricultural col lege and competitive judging will be done for prizes to determine who are the best boy judges of live stock in Nebraska. A special course will also be given for the girls by the de partment of domestic economy, with prizes for excellence. This plan is already working and clubs are being organized all over Nebraska. Through the liberality of the South Omaha Stock Yards company, which has given $700 cash to be distributed in prizes for corn growing, the first official Nebraska boys' corn-growing contest has been inaugurated under the direction of the extension department and boys by the hundred are growing corn for prizes. Some records will undoubt edly be broken and new ones estab lished in this contest. A regular weekly letter is going out from the extension department to all of theStS contestants who are taking a regular correspondence school course in agriculture dis guised under a friendly and personal correspondence. They are being taught how to make a rain gauge, to keep a record of rainfall on blanks furnished, to do proper cultivation, selecting of seed corn and many other valuable things. The entire plan is unique and original and gives promise of new inspiration to the children and everyone with whom they come in contact. A Model Teachers' Institute It remains for a Nebraska county superintendent to originate some thing entirely new in a teachers' in stitute. ' Superintendent L. R. Willis of Adams county has carried to suc- lessful conclusion u county institute for his teachers, lasting for an entire week, at which every phase of prac tical agriculture was presented by experts gathered from the Nebraska station and adjoining states. The valuable instruction imparted to these teachers enables them to un derstand how to approach the prob lem of practical teaching of elemen tary agriculture, animal husbandry and home economics in the rural school. It is not difficult to foresee the time when all over Nebraska similar work will be an annual feature of the county institute and a new mark will be esablished in the teaching of agriculture 'and home economics to the boys and girls of the farm. These are but a few of the signs of progress among the rural schools of Nebraska which Indicate that both teachers and patrons are alive to the impor tance of giving to the farm chil i an education which will fit him for real life. JAMES E. DELZELL. Activities of the University of Nebraska '. ' ' " "r ' '' " '- :''. :" ' Campus at the University Farm. Ninety Ter Cent of the Boys Who Attend the College and School of Agriculture Heturn Directly to Farm Homes to Help in Bringing More Ideal Rural Conditions in Nebraska III! Tt! IX.. t VAkun1A Minu university ui ixeumnno I was founded on February 15, 1869, tv o years and six days after the territory be came a state. For many years there was but one building and one or two hundred students. Today there are, all told, twenty-seven buildings. Twenty years ago there were 570 stu dents; ten years ago there were 2,256; during 1911-12 there were 3,657 students. The university frounds and build ings are divided into three groups the original campus, situated in the capital city of Lincoln and containing sixteen buildings, with its main en trance at Eleventh and R streets; the University farm, of 320 acres, two and a half miles northeast of the original campus and containing ten buildings, and the Medical college building in Omaha, at the corner of Twelfth and Pacific streets. For the latter a new building is being erected in Omaha on the site lying between Howard and Jackson and Thirty ninth and Fortieth streets. The colleges and schools of the university are: The Graduate College. The College of Arts and Sciences, including the School of Fine Arts. The Teachers' College, including Teachers' College High School. The College of Engineering. The College of Law. The College of Medicine, including the School of Pharmacy. The College of Agriculture, includ ing the schools of agriculture. The Graduate college extends and enlarges the work of the undergradu ate departments, In order to provide facilities for investigation and re search. It offers these privileges, which would be costly in an institu tion differently endowed, practically without expense to the student. College of Arts and Sciences The College of Arts and Sciences offers a liberal education and by a system of "advisers" and "major sub jects" it also permits of vocational specialization. Its departments are: American history, anatomy, astron omy, bacteriology and pathology, botany, chemistry, English language and literature, entomology, European history, fine arts, geography and eco nomic geology, geology, Germanic languages and literatures, Greek his tory and literature, histology and en tomology, jurisprudence and public law, mathematics, military science, music, pharmacology, philosophy, physical education, physics, physiol ogy, political economy and commerce, political science and sociology, rhet oric, Roman history and literature, romance languages and literatures, Slavonic and zoology. The School of Fine Arts has recently been re organized and its admission require ments made the same as those of the College of Arts and Sciences. It gives instruction in drawing, paint ing, wood carving, modeling, etching, elocution, dramatics, aesthetics and the history of art. Teachers' College The Teachers' College aims, while dealing with the history, theory and practice of teaching generally, to im prove the quality of secondary teach ing in particular, and to provide thor oughly prepared teachers for second ary schools. Students register in this college in the junior year, at the same time retaining identity in an other college of the university, which grants the degree of Bachelor of Arts or of science, simultaneously with tne granting of the university teach ers' diploma and the university teach ers' certificate by the Teachers' col lege. College of Engineering The College of Engineering pre pares men for agricultural, civil, electrical and mechanical engineer ing. A six-year combined academic engineering course is offered in eac'i of these departments, giving the stu dent cultural education along with hia scientific training. The new mechanical engineering building, to gether with Mechanic Arts hall and electrical engineering laboratories, afford ample laboratory and class room facilities for doing effective work In this field. College of Iaw The College of Law offers a three year course, leading to tnc degree of