Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-01-25
UNIVERSITY EXTENSION
Something About the Extension
Work Of the Iowa State
University.
The New Courses Offered Com
prise Addresses by Twenty
eight Professors.
Professor Mcconnell, the Di-
rector. Now Arranging the
New Series.
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Mcconnell the director of university
extension work, is at present revising
the announcements of the university ex-
tension courses, and preparing the new
year. The lectures and courses offered
Comprise addresses by twenty EIGHT pro-
lessons and assistant professors of the
university. Many of these lectures are
correlated into groups that are success
sively delivered by the professors Of
Kindred topics An example of this IS.
the world making series of lectures, de-
livered by Professors Nutting, Mac
bride and Calvin at Burlington last
year These comprised four lectures by
Professor Calvin on geology and geo.
logic record, erosion. transportation and
depositiOn; evolution of continents and l
continental forms of relief; and glaciers
and the glacial period. These We're fol-
lowed by four by Professor Macbride on /
the vegetable cell, simplest plans, the
fern world and the towering WORLD. Inc I
series was closed by four lectures by 7
| i rofessor Nutting on the geological sue I
cession of animals, the geographical dis
Etrbution of animals, natural. selection
lend the works of Darwin, and the coll
ors of animals. Other courses have
been like those of Professor Wilcox, who
! for the fourth year now is delivering a
series of six historical lectures at Cedar
liRapids. The subject of his course a
Cedar Rapids this year is Six Critical
Periods of American History. He is the
HEST lecturer that the university has
+ among its professors. His addresses are
3clear concise and Illustrated with plenty
( of wit and humor. His success on the
lecture platform has been great. This
year he occupies the Cedar Rapids lee
4 lure course With Professor Moulton. of
4 the University Of Chicago. who has been
4 on the Cedar Rapids course with him
for several years
One of thenew extension courses will:
he delivered at Charles City from Feb.
i i to April 5. The first lecture will be
given by Professor Nutting, on the
sissColoration of Animals, a subject
4 (which is one of the favorite subjects Of
1.-the curator of the university museum in
his studies of animals. The next two
sIiectures will be given by Professor Will
Il cox Feb. IA and March on Present
a Day Europe and the Eastern Question
: and The Place of the Hebrew in Ills
tory On March % Professor Mac
bride viii lecture on the Vegetable
olGcll,. and the course will be closed BY
Professor Wilcox with a lecture on the
!, Manifest Destiny of the United
States
A number Of lectures are delivered
leyery month at different points in the
state and outside the state by President
lGeorge r. MacLean. These lectures
81 the requests that dome in. President
AIacLean fills as many of these requests
as he is able, but is necessarily COM
Isrelled to decline many of them on ac-
lcount of conflicts in his work.
Professor Thomas Fl. Macbride. who
/ mas great literary accomplishments and
81 is interested in a great many other sub
b jccts besides that of botany, of which
The is master, has delivered number of
lectures at different parts of the state
:. this year. One of the latest addresses
!, which he has delivered was one on the
! occasion of the dedication of the library
!. iuilding at LenoX College, when he
spoke on The Scholar in literature
& | DR. j. G. Gilchrist, the registrar of the
: Homeopathic College OF Medicine. has
V also delivered a number of lectures at
n lGifferent places on the English Cath
4 erals, of which he made a special study
: during several English trips and which
he Illustrates with splendid stereopricon
views. Professor Fairbanks. the head OF
the Greek department, is now delivering
To university students a series of lee
lures on "lireek. Sculpture and Greek
Excavations, with descriptions of the
buried cities of Homer These lectures
are Illustrated with excellent lantern
slides made from photographs taken by
Professor Fairbanks during his trips II
Greece and the Levant Professor Fair
banks lectures are being we'll ATTENDED
lsby university students and people oil
Iowa City. He has delivered one OF the
lectures at Muscatine and will deliver
others at different points in the state
I Professor j. j. Mcconnell has deliv-
cred a number OF lectures thruout thu
state One Of his latest was delivered a
Bloomfield before the Davis County
Teachers Association, and was on "I'h.
II Secondary School, Professor Bolton
c also of the department Of pedagogy. q 6
d livered an address lately before tn
i Cedar County Teachers Association L
y. West Branch.
y Professor veblen, of the department 0
lie physics and the head of the department
le OF elscIrlcai engineering, nus dellNefe'
4; a number of lectures on subjects con
p rected With electricity. One OF his hes
:. lectures is on "Fingerprints, where h
takes up the means of Identification o
terminals first noted prominently in TIL
country by Mark Twain in "Puddir
ar Head Wilson, and develops it to mos
az interesting extent.
n One of the newest lectures in the uni
80 versity extension course is one by Pro
"A fessor l. A. Loos on Higher Commerce.
10 Education This address created
great deal of favorable comment whe
delivered in Iowa City recently befor
the Political Science Club. The subjee
is a new one and deals with one of tn
9 rev problems of higher education in
n most interesting manner. The lectur
a has been prepared by Professor Loo
I'D with special reference to its delivery be
tore boards of trade and chambers Z
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