Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-10-19
FOR UNIVERSITY EXTENSION.
PROPOSED COURSE OUTLINED
FOR ANNAPOLIS.
An Effort Being Made To Aid In
Education For You And
Your Neighbor.
PROMINENT LECTURERS WILL
BE SECURED.

A strong effort is being put forth in
this city IN behalf Of University Ex-
tensions formidable term to many,
but which IS nothing else than
short way Il referring TO popular edu-
catl0nal movement in behalf Of 'fyou
and me and our Beighbor. -
The services Of Prof. Ramsay Muir.
~ A.. Andrew Geddes, lecturer in
Modern History at Liverpool Univer-
sity. England. and special staff lee
turor in History and Literature for
the American Society for Extension of
University Teaching Of Philadelphia.
are 70 be secured for q course of six
lectures 70 be given during FEBRUARY
and March. The subject of these lee
tures has rot vet been selected.
Mr.. Muir offers a number of attrac.
tive courses in literature and history,
but it is most probable that the final
choice will be made from one of the
three courses given below:
l. Colonial RiYalries Of the Great
Powers. l. fhe Opening Out of the
World and the Dominance Of Spain.
2. The Era of Railway in Settlement.
3. The Era of War for Colonial Su-
pTemacy. L. The Era of Indifference.
). The New Land Hunger of the Great
Powers. 6. The Great Powers in
Asia and the Pacific.
III. The Making of Modern England.
(Illustrated). /. Old England 2.
The Beginning of the Great Transi-
tion. 3. The French Revolution and
Its Effects. 1. The Industrial Revolu-
tion. 3. The Democratisiug of Eng
land 6. The Making of the New
British Empire.
Ill English Novelists of the Nine
teenth Century. /. Jane Austen ?.
Scott. 3. Dickens. 4. Thackery 3.
The Brontes and Othens. 6. Meridetn
and Stevenson.
Mr.. Muir is a graduate of Ballial
College, Oxford University, where he
was a Brackenbury scholar in history
for five years. He also took a double
point in the honors school of Literae
Humaniores and of Modern History.
On leaving Oxford MIR. Muir returned
to Liverpool, his native city, where
his chief work for the first two or
three years was the foundation of the
Society for University Extension. At
that time there was only one centre in
the Liverpool district. 1t is not the
best extended district in Eng land.
During the same period the movement
for turning University college into
an independent university began and
its successful elimination was largely
the result of he indefatigable laboTs
of Mr.. Muir. He has also been much
concerned in REORGANIZATION of the
teaching of history in the English
schools.
Mr.. Muir has had wide and sue
oessful career as University Extension
lecturer in all parts of England, is a
strong virile lecturer and has the rare
power of communicating his own en-
thusiasm for the subject to an audi
ence. Courses have already been ar
ranged for Mr.. Muir at the Brooklyn
Institute, Brooklyn, New York. The
Peoples Institute, New York city,
Wesleyan University, Middleton,
Conn, Vassar Institute, Poughkeepsie,
N. Y. Association Local, Philadel-
phia, ST. Timothy's School, Cations
vile, Md, Paterson N. j., and in
many other cities in the Middle, New
England and Southern States.
Through the courtesy of DR.. Thomas
Fell, president of st. Johns College,
the lectures will be given in Mcdowell
Hall at weekly intervals, Course tick
cts are to be sold at So for the six Iec-
lures. A list of patrons is already be-
ing secured, which will be published
later Iu order to insure the success
of the course it will be necessary to
secure at least 20 patrons. The object
of these lectures is not so much to
teach things that people are eager TO
learn for the purpose of making liv.
ing as to teach those things that relate
TO man, as being striving through
a long history for wider mental hori-
IONS and higher spiritual ideals. 1t is
the OILY way in which we can be
awakened TO a realization that there is
something better than hum-drum in
this world and a determination TO
get out of his life somewhere near
what it contains for them. The value
of the work has been demonstrated.
That being true, it should not lack for
support.