Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-29
WHAT UNIVERSITY EXTENSION
IS ACCOMPLISHING.
MANY COURSES ARRANGED
Dates and Subjects of Lectures-Prof.
Raymond to Go to Ohio-Instruc-
ton by Correspondence Proving
Satisfactory-Notes on the Work
Done.
Madison, Oct. 81

lectures at the university. Consider
ing that the public mind is so absorbed
in politics at present this is gratifying.
A considerable increase is looked for
after election Prof. Freeman is down
for five. He opened one course in
Shakespeare at Chippewa Falls Oct. 2.
The lecturers with their subjects and
dates of beginning lectures are as fol-
! lows:
Prof. Freeman Shakespeare, Chip
pewa Falls, Oct. 2; Milwaukee nor
the Wcrld, Winona, Oct. 10; La
| Crosse, Nov. 6; English Life and Lit
erature, WATERFOWL, Jan. s.
Prof Raymond-A Group of Social
Philosophers, Mill, Kingsley, Carlyle,
Ruskin, Morris, Tonybee, Berlin. in
in the Union church, beginning Nov. 8;
Manitowoc, Jan. 6. After the holidays
he will lecture in the cities of Dayton,
Sidney and Piqua, Ohio, which will be
the farthest distance abroad that any
Wisconsin university lecturer has
gone.
Prof. c.. F. Smith-Greek Life, west
side high school, Milwaukee, Oct. Is;
st. Johns academy, Delafield, Oct. IL;
Manitowoc, Nov. IL.
Prof. Birge-Zoology, before Col
legiate Alumni association, Milwau-
kee, Oct. 7; Problems in the Evolution
of Heredity, Oshkosh, Nov. 10.
Prof. Comstock-Astronom Sparta,
| Nov. g.; Chippewa Falls, Jan. 8; Eau
Claire. Jan. 8.
Prof. Constitution and
Founding of the Federal Government,
Prairie du Sac, Oct. 27.
The new arrangement of instruction
by correspondence bids fair to be pop
ular. Twenty students are pursuing
work of this kind ana the instructors
are highly encouraged. 1t is designed
for people who have not time nor
means to come to college but who wish
to improve themselves and to be in
touch with higher things. Among the
students are teachers, clerks, bank
cashiers, lawyers and physicians with
a good proportion of alumni and eX-
stuuents. Twenty courses in instruc-
IlOA al z OllCl Cu' hSlOoC1Nlo may DS51L
at any time but may not take more
than two courses at cree.
The instruction is of two kinds, for
NAL and informal.
The formal instruction is carried on
| by a series of printed instruction and
question sheets. Each sheet assigns
the student certain work, gives sugges-
tons and explanations and a series Of
quesLIons, the answers to which the
| student is to write out after having
performed the work assigned.
The instruction by informal CORES
ponSence is mainly designed for ad-
vanced students. In this work the
particular needs of the students are
! taken into consideration, and his
work is arranged to suit his individ-
ual needs and abilities. Fees are
charged according to the work taken.
Among the courses in instruction are
the following: Economics, Sociology,
Political Science, History, Hebrew,
French, German, English Literature,
Rhetoric, Mathematics and Astronomy.
Another feature Of the work of the
university extension department dur
ing the past year has been the issuing
of bulletin for editors at fortnightly
intervals. This bulletin contains items
of news about the university, brief ac
counts of scientific or literary work
done by members Of the university,
newsy accounts of the action of faculty
or board of regents, athletic events, So
cial events, and any occurrence or
fact relating to the university in
which the public may be supposed to
have interest. The bulletin is sent
regularly to the editor of any neWspa-
per who expresses a desire to receive
it. Thus far more than twelve hun
dred editors have requested that the
They select from the bulletin and in
sert in their columns such items as
they wish. The result has been that
the University of Wisconsin has been
much better represented in the public
press than ever before, and the public
is becoming more intelligent in regard
to what the university is doing.
its seventh year of extension work. In
both the amount and quality of the
work NE there has been a regular
increase from year to year. Prof. j.
H. Raymond has charge of this de-
partment of work and has given it a
new impetus during the past year.
For the first two years there was
charge made of $50 fol a course of six
lectures. Ine price was put low in
order that the small towns might not
be cut off from the benefit of such
course. However, the supply for the
second year was not equal to the de-
mand, and for the third year, when a
greater variety as we'll as number of
courses was offered, the price was
raised to 500. Many applications at
the lower rate had from necessity been
refused; but with the rise in price the
demand fell, though not as much as
had been expected. On the other
hand, what was lost in the amount OF
work was more than made up for in
the quality during the third, fourth
and fifth years. Another change was
necessitated from the fact that the bet
ter-known lecturers were in such great
demand. 1t was decided, therefore, to
raise the price of these men to 800 and
have a number Of younger men, at the
rate of $40 for a course. However,
the better known lecturers were much
more in demand. During the year '95-
SO of the nineteen men who delivered