ABSTRACT
The principle of intermediation continued for a long time in the university in America with respect to the humanitarian services. The structure of the university's humanitarian functions in society has changed decisively. Increasingly, one finds the academic department itself made the vehicle of direct humanitarian service. Agriculture was the first major group in American society to receive the university's humanitarian assistance. It is both interesting and important to my argument here to observe, however, that the university's approach to the problem of agricultural assistance was indirect, not direct. At the start, few taught in University Extension systems who were not bona fide members of the university involved. But their identities in the Extension were meticulously distinct from their identities in the university proper. The university is far too expensive an operation for support, by taxpayer or donor, of mere adolescent socialization, of glorified sitting.
