New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-07-15
COLUMBIA'S SCHOOL.
Over 900 Registered for Summer SEES
sion to Disadvantages offered.

The sixth summer session Of Columbia University
opened Thursday. and it is believed that the at
tendance viii surpass the record Of last year. when
one thousand registered. To date the registrations
are more than nine hundred.
With the exception Of one year, there has been a
steady increase in the number Of students since the
opening year, 1900 when the total was Az In 1901
there were 57e in 1902 SIS; in 1903 go. and In 1904
sl4 The decrease last year was due to the Ma
tional Educational Association in St. Louis during
the Worlds Fair.
The percentage Of men is steadily increasing.
Last year IS per cent were men. A feature is the
number of college graduates and students Of some
collegiate training there being 30 per cent last year
as against 25 per cent the year previous. OF the
students last summer only little more than one
half were from New-York. the rest coming from
forty-one States and Territories. as we'll as from
Canada, Central America. England. Italy, Japan
Mexico and South Africa OF the many courses
provided the order of popularity is pedagogy, Eng
lish, mathematics German and physical education.
One Of the features this year will be the special
attention paid to the coordination Of courses with
those Of the academic year and to the definite and
explicit recognition Of the same by the various
faculties of the university. This Is a feature in
the summer session. and It enables student to
take at least one year OF the regular for a
degree in summer terms and thus be graduated at
the end Of three years.
The buildings of the university open In the
summer the same in the winter, and the students
have all the facilities of the regular course. The
new physical education building is open each week
day. 1t contains offices, examination rooms lecture
and class rooms, laboratories handball courts,
Bowling alleys swimming poo! four gymnasiams
shower baths and a fencing
Instructors viii be present every day, and the
facilities for the summer term students will be the
same for those in the regular sessions Arrange
ments have also been made for excursions Of stu
dents under the direction Of Benjamin r. Andrews,
OF the Educational Museum of Teachers College,
to points Of historical interest in and about New
York.
In addition to the regular courses. there will be
a series Of public lectures upon topics of general
interest. Students will be admitted On presentation
Of registration cards until five minutes before the
time Of the lectures, after which the rooms will be
open 10 the general public.
Every day this month, and until August 16, DR..
George Krfehm will also give in Havemeyer Hall a
series Of illustrated lectures the history of art
divided into five sectons-ancient, medieval, the
Renaissance, the seventeenth and eighteenth CEN
uries, and the nineteenth century. The lectures
will be supplemented by weekly visits to the Metro
politan Museum Of Art, at times to be announced
by the lecturer.
The total number Of courses offered this year in
the summer session is 800 against 80 in the hrst
wear while there this year 81 professors y IN
structors and 16 assistants, as compared with Il
professors 6 instructors and assistants IN the
opening Of the summer school