Download or read book Addresses Delivered in 1903 at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching (Classic Reprint) written by American Society for the Exten Teaching and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Addresses Delivered in 1903 at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching When these local leaders, or the locality itself, cease to believe in it, work for it, pay for it, our cause is over. We must carry the community with us or our work ends. We work under the most diverse conditions, and with most varied audiences. We must live up to the maxim of that first Extension lecturer who preached all things to all men. We go to great centres like Association Local in Philadelphia, - a centre that after thirteen years of continuous activity gathers together this year for courses of thirty-two historical lectures, a thousand auditors - an audience in character and standing and intellectual interest not to be paralleled elsewhere in this country, if in the world. That is a testimony of University Extension of which no member of this Society need be ashamed. We go to small centres, in towns like Moorestown, Parkesburg, Milford, Hatboro, Woodstown, Millville. We have centres even in remote country districts, where perhaps a carriage-house is the improvised lecture-room, and farmers and farmers' wives arc the only auditors. And we have centres in artisan districts where the committee and audience are workingmen and working women. We go to centres where for the first time church divisions are broken down in a common cause. We co-operate with women's clubs, acting at times for the community, as at Oak Lane, West Chester, Media, Lancaster, Asbury Park, Williamsport. 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.