The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-24
Busy Men and Women
 Who Go to College.

University send it's teachers down the hill to them eliminates all who might come out of idle curiosity or simply to pass an evening, and an immediate en- rollment of something over five hun dred adult students indicates a public interest much greater than the Univer- sity authorities themselves expected.
 Under the system thus successfully inaugrated, a single course consists of ten lectures on given subject--such. for example. as the English poets of specific period, the history of the Am erican Colonies in the eighteenth cen- ury the French Drama or the life and work of the great German writer, Goethe-correspondi to the lecturs on the same subject regularly given by the same instructors to their classes of Brown undergraduates. It is to be noted that these subjects are chosen with two-fold purpose--to offer wider Knowledge of literature, history and other branches of the study to the men and women who come for the sake of general culture, enrolling themselves simply as "hearers." and at the same time to afford scope for more systematic work by those who wish to pass the examinations neces- sary to obtain either Q certificate of special knowledge in given topic, or, by taking a sufficient number of courses In SuCCGSSlOn, HHdlly lO lllc HUI or of a university degree.
 Such a distinction Is, of course, very far in the distance although the time may be materially shortened by courses | in the summer schools that are, nowa- days so largely attended by adult stu | dents The plan is not intended to ] open any short cut to academic dls- i tinction and the work taken in Its en- tirety must fully equal the work of the | regular college graduate. But the fact | that this tangible reward of attend | ance is necessarily remote, and not to | be reached any the faster by the nerv- | ous strain of over study, onset ne possible danger that such an opportu- nifty would simply prove an unfortun- ate temptation to a lot of ambitious men and women, many of whom are al, ready teaching in the public schools of l the city.
 As matter of fact. the experience 1 of the first term, in the opinion ol those who have most closely watched , 1t, indicates that the experiment IS be- ing accepted in just the spirit in which if was hoped it would be. It is an in- teresting and practical illustration, in fact. of the statement made last year | by President Faunce in his annual re- port of university condition that Tt IS the duty of the University to provide intellectual insight, stimulus and leadership for the entire community around it."
 In many of the American communi- ties having large educational institu' tions such an influence is unquestion- ably more or less handicapped by the distrust with which the local "clty fathers" are wont to regard the college authorities Fortunately. however | such a feeling is not characteristic | of the Rhode Island capital Tht relation is, as 1t certainly should be everywhere, kindly and mutually bene- ficial-a condition especially evident i'll the successful cooperation of the pub lie school system and the department of the University that trains teacher and is now the direct sponsor of exten' sion teaching The school committet of Providence, by special agreement yearly appoints as teachers in the pup
 lie schools, chiefly In the four higl schools of the city. although the sam
 system is carried out, to lesser degree in some of the grammar schools number of students selected from tn
 graduating class at the neighborini University.
 These students teachers, as they ar
 called. fulfil their appointments unde