The university in overalls; a plea for part-time study . growth isstunted. They will never develop as they should untilthey plant young universities ever3rwhere. If the univer-sities rise to the occasion and send half their students andprofessors to settlements, camps, works, and factories,they will convert these in turn into affiliated colleges andso diffuse education. Let the universities efface them-selves by giving half of their professors and half of theirstudents as actual workers and teachers at factories, works,camps, and settlements. They will in this way enlargetheir boundaries and i
The university in overalls; a plea for part-time study . growth isstunted. They will never develop as they should untilthey plant young universities ever3rwhere. If the univer-sities rise to the occasion and send half their students andprofessors to settlements, camps, works, and factories,they will convert these in turn into affiliated colleges andso diffuse education. Let the universities efface them-selves by giving half of their professors and half of theirstudents as actual workers and teachers at factories, works,camps, and settlements. They will in this way enlargetheir boundaries and increase their attendance. Just now the University of Toronto is asking 14,600,000from the Province for new buildings. By all means letthe Ontario Government spend this amount and more onVarsity buildings, but not in Toronto. Let Varsity putup two hundred and fifty buildings instead of a that money, Toronto University can build and mantwo hundred and fifty branch universities throughout theProvince. These will benefit many times the number of. The Place op the University 93 students and make Toronto a vastly greater universitythan she now is. Instead of one, let there be hundreds ofHart Houses, built of good peeled logs, for the comfortand entertainment and co-education of young men andwomen, in lumbering, mining, construction, and land-clearing camps, as well as at factories, mills, and otherindustrial centres. Education must be obtainable on the farm, in the bush,on the railway, and in the mine. We must educate thewhole family wherever their work is, wherever they earntheir Uving; teaching them how to earn and at the sametime how to grow physically, intellectually, and spirituallyto the full stature of their God-given potentialities. Thisis the real education. This is the place of the true univer-sity. CHAPTER UNIVERSITY AND THE FRONTIER. War called on men to offer their bodies a living sacri-fice. The call was for bodies, human bodies, efficient inall their
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