Excerpt from Handbook of University Extension University Extension should be a matter of pro found interest to every American. It has a message for men and women alike; for the educated as well as for the uneducated for the rich no less than for the poor. It seems likely to prove one of the great organizing and initiating forces so necessary and as yet unfortunately so rare in ihe educational and social life of the United States. University Extension is a widening of the doors of the college and university so as to take in classes of We who are not now directly benefited by the higher institutions of learning it brings to busy people at their homes the opportunity of securing university aid and direction in carrying on their studies while engaged in the round of daily toil it renders possible a much better utilization of existing educational facilities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.