River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-05-04
New Summer-Session Courses.

The catalogue of the summer ses-
sion of the University of Wisconsin
now in press indicates that the work
this summer will be of unusual in
terest. Besides the regular Univer-
sity courses, now offered in all de-
partments, for which credit may be
obtained towards the regular college
degree, there will be given a mum.
Der of courses particularly adapted
for teachers. In addition to the reg
ular University faculty, several spe-
cial lecturers will conduct courses
during the summer. Among these
are Professor Alcee Fortier, profess
sor of Romance languages at Tulane
University; DR.. Charles w. Kent,
professor of English literature at
the University of Virginia; DR.. Will
liam H. Carruth, professor of Ger
manic language and literature at
the University Of Kansas; Major
Evan R. Jones, NJ. p, editor-in
chief of the London Shipping
World; and Mr.. Carroll 6. Pearse,
superintendent of schools of Milwau-
kee. The department of home
economics will offer several courses,
some Of which are particularly de-
signed for those preparing to teach
that subject. DR.. ]. c. Elsom, di-
rector of gymnastics at the Univer-
sity, will give instruction designed
for those who intend to fit them
selves as teachers in physical train
ing. The fifth session of the sum-
mer school for artisans, in the Col
lege of Engineering, offers training
in drafting, mechanics, manual train
ing and similar subjects. The
western railroads have just granted
special excursion rates for the whole
of the summer session.
Professor Alcce Fortier of Tulane
University will give 4 course of
lectures on contemporary French
institutions and politics in compari-
son with those of the United States.
He will also give two courses in
French literature; one dealing with
the work of Lamartine and Victor
Hugo, and the other with nineteenth
century French literature with spe-
cial reference to the work of Alfred
de Vigny and Alfred de Musset.
The courses in the department of
home economics have been planned
to meet the needs both of those
teachers who desire to make a spe-
cialty of the subject and of those
who wish to give instruction in
home economics in connection with
the regular school work. In addi-
ton to the teachers courses, the de-
partment will offer courses prepare
tory to special advanced work for
institutional workers, such as ma
irons, housekeepers, dieticians, and
others in charge of the public and
private institutions. The summer
work this year will include studies
in house sanitation, selection and
preparation of food, house furnish
ing, teaching of domestic science,
and the microscopic examination of
food products and textiles with a
study Of the methods of detecting
authorizations.
One of the interesting phases of
summer session work to which more
attention will be given this year
than heretofore, is that of field work
in physical geography, geology, 20
ology, and botany. Professor W.
H. Hobbs of the department of ge-
ology will conduct the work in
photography, much of which will
be a study in the field of glacial ac-
ton and the topography resulting
from it. An important part of the
study will be the excursions to the
surrounding country, with trips of
several days to Devils Lake and the
Dells of the Wisconsin river, to
Lake Geneva and to the driftless
area of Wisconsin.