Short Courses
1. School of practical agriculture and household arts: A three-year winter course for young men and young women who have completed the eighth grade.
2. Commercial dairying: A three-year course for young men.
Ranger course. A five-month course for forest rangers.
4. Short course in mining: Eight-week course for prospectors and others interested in mining.
A five-month social activities in various forms. Much of the social life of the university grows out of work in the lecture room, the library, and the laboratories. Students acquire new interests, or they experience a deepening, an intensifying, of old interests. They acquire a love of literature, or their old love of its receives a new life. Such students spend many a happy and profitable hour with book of poems or of plays. Their appreciation of acted plays, or the plays of the silent stage, is made fuller and keener.
But in addition to this gradual development of the social powers of the individual there are many things that go to make a rich social life at the university. Every year an opera is performed. Students have sung, among other operas. The Mikado and also The Pirates of Penzance, two of the most famous light operas written and composed by Gilbert and Sullivan. Recital and concerts are given, both by home talent and by visiting artists. Plays are frequently staged. And in this respect the university will be far better off in the future than in the past. Professor Miller, the new head of the department of English, is particularly  Interested in the drama, his students have made a name for themselves in the leading theaters of the central states. 