The San Francisco call., 1907-06-04

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BERKELEY, June 3.-The university
authorities are preparing for the an
nual summer school on the campus. and
in their prospectus mention the names
OF distinguished educators who have
been secured to serve on the faculty.
Scholars from British and American
universities will give courses in science,
literature, pedagogy and the arts. The
summer school will open on June "a.
The summer sersions may be said to
have originated in 1891, when the de-
partment of chemistry offered in its
newly constructed building courses of
instruction during July and part of Au-
gust, primarily for teachers. The very
evident appreciation of this move led
to a continuance of the plan, and from
1892 to 1898 inclusive this summer
work in chemistry was steadily con-
Quoted. Beginning in 1891 the physical
laboratory, was opened to students in
terested in experimenting and measure
ment In 1899, with the adoption of a
more comprehensive scheme of work,
the regular university summer sessions
had their beginning. To the courses in
physics and chemistry was added in
struction in education, history and
mathematics, all the work being con-
Quoted, however, by members of the
regular faculty.
The following year witnessed the
addition of new branches of study, no.
tably the classics, English and botany.
For the first time educators from other
institutions were called in. only one,
however, from the east, and none from
Europe The summer of 1901 marked.
still further progress in this direction
Professor H. Morse Stephens, then of
Cornell university, delivered his first
lecture on the coast. Among other
members of the faculty were numbered
such eminent scholars as Barrett Wen
dell of Harvard and Liberty Hyde Bal
ley of Cornell From 1902 to 1906 the
annual summer sessions were unfail-
ingly of high standard.
The session of this year promises
equally we'll. There will be two emf
nent English educators in the faculty,
Professor John Adams Of the University
of London and Professor John McTag-
gart E. McTaggart of Trinity college,
Cambridge.
From eastern institutions of learning
there will come a goodly number of
eminent professors. DR.. William Mac
Donald of Brown university will lecture
on American history. dealing in one
course with the organization of our
government after the adoption of the
constitution and our political history
down to the civil war, and in another
course with the interesting period of
the war and the reconstruction follow
ing. George Parker Winship. the IL
brarian of the John Carter Brown Ii
brary of Brown university, will be a
second member of the history depart
ment. His. excellent work on the Coro-
nado expedition published in 1895 is
widely and favorably known among
historical scholars. This work has
been followed by other publications of
almost, if not quite, equal value. Win
ship will lecture on his speciality,
Spanish American history. dealing par
ticularly with the conquest and coIoni-
zation of Spanish America.
In the department of French Pro-
fessor William A. Mite of Amherst COL
lege will lecture on the classical
Drama of the Seventeenth Century" He
participated year before last in the
summer session of the University of
Chicago. Professor Clifford H Moore
Of Harvard university will discuss "The
Religion and Worship of the Greeks and
Romans" taking within the general
field such selected topics as the follow
ing: Temples and temple poverty, sac
rifice, family cults, religious societies,
festivals and Greek and Roman ethics.
Professor Moore will be the only mem
Der of the Latin department.. He will
conduct a course important for teachers
of history as well as classical teachers
on the Roman historians to Tacitus."
DR.. Moore has been at Harvard for
seven years. In 1905-O6 he was pro-
lessor of Latin in the American school
Of classical studies in Rome
{ An interesting feature OF the session
will be the school in library methods
under the direction OF Miss Mary Leti-
tia Jones, who was for long time In
charge Of the Los Angeles public Ii
|brary. Her previous supervision of the
summer library school at Berkeley was
eminently satisfactory. She will be as
sisted by the regular library stan and
by trained persons from outside Ii
braries.