The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-06-30
EDUCATION IN SUMMER.
Work That Will Be Done by Univer.
sity Extension Society and State
Teachers Association.

Ghe American Society for the Exten.
sion of University Teaching will open
its So econd annual summer meeting in
the University buildings, Philadelphia.
at s 80 p M, Monday, July 2, and con.
tinue every day till July 81, excepting
Saturdays and Sundays.
The summer meeting is organized in
six departments. Departments G aud
T do not appear in the programme of
lectures, as the arrangements depend
upon the numbers that enroll for the
various courses in them. Department
a is II general department devoted
chiefly to literature, but including also
courses in biology. architecture, e5-
thetics, vocal culture and philosophy
Department B is organized especially
for teachers who wish to devote a part
or all their energies in the summer
meeting 10 the scientific study and dis.
cussion of pedagogy. Department G
includes three courses on harmony,
counterpoint and the understanding Of
music. Department D, devoted to history
and civics, sustains the reputation Of
the summer meeting in its first session
for interesting and scholarly historical
courses. Department Il is new feat
ure Of the summer meeting, consisting
Of the presentation by eight of the
leading American economists of the
present position Of economic science in
the American universities. In this de-
partment the faculties of Amherst,
Brown. Bryn Mawr, Columbia, Cornell,
Pennsylvania and Yale are represented.
Department F is organized in response
to demand for instruction in higher
mathematics. In addition TO the above
six departments, course in physical
culture will be given by Mrs. Amy E,
Blair, of Minneapolis.
Among the corps of lecturers are E.
Benjamin Andrews, DID,, LII. d pres.
ident of Browns university, whose sub
ject will be Money" Superintendent
of Public Schools Edward Brooks, on
"PedaGogy;" Edward Everett Hale. D.
D., of Boston, on Origins of America
and Topics of Revolutionary His.
tory" Rev. S. D. Mcconnell. DID,
rectors of st. Stephens church, who
will deliver a sermon entitled "Unit-
cation of the Religious Life of the
United States;" Professor John Bach
MeMaster, Of the University Penn
sylvania. and United States G. il Ser
vice Commissioner Theodore Rooss.
velt.
Besides the Saturday excursions OF
the summer meeting students to revO-
lutionary battlehelds near Philadel-
phia, the University Extension society
will inaugurate pilgrimage to historic
cities and towns IN New England and
the Middle States The pilgrims will
leave Philadelphia July 30 and. fol-
lowing as closely as practicable Wash.
ington's revolutionary movements, visit
Hartford Boston, Cambridge, Lexing-
ton, Concord. Salem, Plymouth, Pom
fret, Fishkill, Newburg, West Point,
Tarrytowp, New York, Princeton,
Trenton, returning TO Philadelphia
Aug. 8.
The summer meeting has been or.
ganized for two purposes-to enable
busy men and women to transform
their summer vacation from a period
of intellectual stagnation to period Of
quiet and vigorous growth. and to pro-
mote the great movement Of popular
education and social reform known as
the Extension of University Teach
ing"
An interesting programme is being
prepared for the State Teachers sssoci-
alton, which meets in Media early In
July. Colonel A. X. Mcclure and
Congressman Jack Robinson will well
come the educators. County Superin-
tendent of Schools A. G. G. Smith is also
arranging for visit of the members
of the association to the Brandywine
battle-ground, at Chadd's Ford, to the
old Baptist church and to the Penn
sylvania Training School for the Feeble
Minded, at Elwyn. and to the the
Williamson Trades school, at William
son.