Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-06-25
SUMMER SESSION
Of UNIVERSITY
MANY STUDENTS REGISTER FOR
SIX WEEKS VACATION
COURSES.
NEW MEN SECURED TO GIVE
SPECIAL LECTURES IN VAR
lOUS DEPARTMENTS.
Madison, June %.


A large number of students regis
tered yesterday for the tenth summer
session of the university, and this
morning the regular class work com,
mences. Many interesting lectures
are announced for the first week, II
in all, of which seven are to be il.
Illustrated. The first meeting of the
Germanistische Gesellschaft, the lit.
erary and conversation club for those
studying German, will be held Thurs
day night, and on Friday evening the
first of series Of receptions given
| by the faculty to the summer stu
dents will be held in Chadbourne hall
Saturday morning Professor r. H.
Whitbeck of Adelphi college will con.
duct an excursion to Devils lake for
those interested in physical geogra.
ply.
The subjects for the first week s
lectures are varied, ranging from the
weather, by Professor J. L. Bartlett,
to Internal Changes in China, by Pro
fessOr P. S. Reinsch, and from House
Decoration, by Miss Lucia Dement, OF
Teachers college, Columbia, to The
Greek Theater, by Professor J. w
Cunliffe of the universitys English
department. Professor H. B. Lathrop
will give readings on Some Spanish
Rogues, and Professor J. F. A. Pyre
will read selections from Browning
another afternoon. Professor Grant
Showerman will give two lectures on
Italy, and Professor c. F. Smith will
! lecture on The Land Of the Hellenes
A Gifted Race Amid an Environment
of Mountains and the Sea. Professor
D. G. Munro gives two lectures on
| Gibbon and Guizot, and Professor A
H, Taylor lectures on X Rays.
On Thursday William ElIery Leon
ard gives the opening lecture Of a
series OF five, including In the Scrip
| forum: Experiences of an Editor OF
an English Dictionary; A Royal I'm
dergraduate: "reminiscences OF Grown
! Prince Wilhelm at Bonn; Some POpu
lar Superstitions About Language:
The Fear Of Slang, Spelling Reform
and INSTRUMENTATION In the Work
shop with the Poets: Some Prosy AS
poets of the Fine Frenzy; and A Neg
lected Poet of Ancient Sicily: Emped
ocles, the Agrigentine-
New Men Give Many Courses.
Beside the 48 regular members OF
the university faculty who will Offer
work in the summer session, eight
| new professors and instructors have
/ been secured for the various depart
ments, including Professor Harold D
Hazeltine of Cambridge, England, fol
the college of law; Professor Camille
1 Won klenze of Brown university foI
German literature lectures; Profes
sOr John J. Wilmore Of Alabama Pol
! ytechnic Institute for the engineering
| courses; Mrs. Anna Garlin Spencer O.
! New York, for a course on socia
service, and sociological conferences;
Dean H. V. Ames of the graduate
school Of the University of Penn
sylvania for the work in American
history; Professor Peter W. Dykema
| Of the Ethical Culture school Of New
| York for music courses. Miss Lucia
Williams Dement, of Teachers Col
lege, Columbia, will give courses in
art, and Professor r. H. Whitbeck OF
Adelphi college will lecture on geog,
raphy, and Professor William L. Yves.
terman, recently elected to the uni
Iversity faculty from the University OF
Minnesota, will have charge Of the
work in ancient history.
Among the 1873 courses given in 20
departments of the college of letters
and science, particular interest will
be conferred in those on the elements
of meteorology, by Professor Bart
lett of the United States weather bu-
reau; on monopolies and trusts, and
the distribution of wealth, by Profess
sor R. T. Ely of the political economy
department; Mrs. Spencer's socioIog-
fcal work; and Professor P. S.
Reinsch's course in oriental politics,
The college of engineering is this
year, for the first time, giving sum-
mer courses of full college grade, be-
side the courses for artisans.