Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-04-09
SCOPE OF SUBJECTS is
WIDENED FOR SUMMER
Interesting Liberal Culture Courses
Offered-Manual Training, Do
mestic Science and Agri-
culture Given

The Bulletin of the summer session
at the University of California has just
been issued. The coming session prom
Uses to be one of the most interesting
and instructive ever held at Berkeley.
The scope of the subjects offered has
been widened, and the number of
courses increased; nearly all of the de-
partments of the regular session Will
be represented this year. No formal
examinations are required fOraentrance.
Admission is granted to all persons OF
sufficient maturity and intelligence to
profit by the exercises OF the session.
Instruction will be given, not only
by members of the regular university
faculty, but also by a number of dis
tinguished men of letters and of sci
ence from eastern universities. Rob
ert Herrick. the well-known novelist,
and professor of English in the Uni
versity of Chicago, will offer two
courses in the department of English.
Prof William Lyon Phelps, one of the
most distinguished instructors at Yale
university, will lecture on Tennyson
and Browning. Prof. Andrew Nc
Laughlin of the University of Chicago,
the eminent, authority on American
constitutional history, will give two
courses and a seminar. Calvin Thomas,
professor of the Germanic languages
and literature in Columbia university,
will lecture on Faust and also on Ger
man literature of the eighteenth CEN
tury. Prof. Burnett, director of the
psychological laboratory at BoWdoin
will lecture on the recent advances III
the science of psychology. Prof
| O'Shea, head of the department of ed
ucatiun in the University Of Wisconsin
will have the general direction of the
department of education. Presidents
Black, Burk, Daley, Millspaugh ano
Van LEW of the California state nor
NAL schools will each deliver course
of lectures on problems IN educatlonal
theory and practice.
While much of the work of the com
ing session will /be concerned directly
with the method and content of the
studies of the secondary schools, 1t is
felt that the university cannot serve
the teachers of the state better than
by offering also a wide range of oppor-
tunities for study along other lines
than the daily routine of the school
room. To this end large number of
unusually interesting liberal culture
courses are offered this year. Among
the new features which appear upon
the program of the coming session are
courses in manual training, domestic
science, agriculture for teachers In inc
In addition to the regular lectures of
the summer session arrangements have
been made for number of excursions.
DR.. Robert G. Aitken, astronomer at
the Lick observatory and lecturer IN
astronomy in the summer SESSION, VIII
conduct an excursion to Mt. Hamilton
for his classes and other members OF
the session who wish to visit the OBJ
servatory The class in physical
geography under the direction of DR..
Harold w. Fairbanks, will make the
first part of it's trip along the track
of the earthquake fault of April 1906,
and one day will be set aside Tor a
general excursion, when all who desire
may accompany the class. At some
time during the six weeks Luther Bur-
bank will receive members of the sum-
mer session at his home and gardens
near Santa Rosa. 1t is also intended TO
arrange a trip to Stanford university
and an excursion by boat to points on
San Francisco bay, including visit
to the United States naval training
station on Yerba Buena island, and
touching at some of the military posts
on the Golden Gate. The details or
these excursions will be announced at
the opening of the session.
A list of places offering board and
room or room alone is kept on file in
the office of the recorder of the facul-
ties, and every possible assistance VIII
be given to strangers in their search
for suitable boarding places. In
quiries should be addressed to the re-
corder of the faculties of the Univer-
sity Of California. Berkeley, CAL