Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01
SCHOOL AND COLLEGE WORK
Comparative ENROLMENT Of Twenty.
Five Leading Universities,
MANY NEsRAsKANs AT HARVARD
Progressive Activities Of various
Universitiss, Colleges and Acad-
emIssTEduestiOnai Notes
of Interest.

University extension work by the Uni
versity Of Nebraska authorities Is fairly
under way by direction Of former state
Superintendent J. l.. McBrien. The e~x-state
official has taken up the task OF spread
ing the gospel Of popular education and
will soon have q system arranged whereby
all Nebraska people who desire may begin
university extension studies. The new de-
partment was favored by the State uni
versity senate on an exhaustive report
of the work made by Prof. FL. w. Cald-
well OF the Department of American HIS
tory. who has devoted much time to a
study of the Wisconsin plan.
For several years It has been noticed
that a great deal Of attention has been
paid in the state to correspondence schools
by it's citizens. The demand for higher
education along certain lines by people
nab to bear the expense Of attending a
school for the specific purpose of instruc-
ton brought into prominence in other coun-
tries and states long ago the possibility
Of successfully carrying on extensive work.
Now the Nebraska university authorities
have the plan well in hand and much bene-
fit Is expected from It in a short time.
Mr.. McBrien has not as yet prepared
full plans for the work. but he has formu-
lated a system in the rough which he in
tends TO put in effect at once. The CORE
spondence instruction. he believes. will give
every student the opportunity TO come In
contact with the instructor, not as a mem
Der OF a class. but as an individual. 1t
will enable him to employ his spare time
and the work can be done at home and
when he Is best enabled to do It. 1t throws
the student upon his own resources ana
is calculated to make him self-reliant and
Undetermined. A special course will be
given for teachers Many in the state
have had enough work for the certificate
they hold and enough more partly to
qualify them for a grade higher.
Where a person is working for a degree
in extension work. the plan specifies that
half Of the work must be done at the uni
versity. But the restrictions thrown
around this provision are 50 generous that
the time for the work may be chosen to
suit the convenience of the student and
especially the teacher who IS striving for
Advancement with the courses offered
for the State university summer school
this year the school will be essentially a
teachers college. A special course to be
offered this year will be a study of the
life Of Abraham Lincoln. Prof. McBrten
will have personal charge of this line OF
work.
The first lessons Of the new department
will be sent out about February 10 accord
ing to present plans. So many inquiries
have come in and from so many different
sections Of Nebraska that it may be Inn
possible for him to attend to them all In
person.
watching Young Lawyers.
whether from a knowledge of the men OF
| the law or with a desire to make the young
| Blackstones start right, the faculty OF the
| College of Law of the University of Ne
braska conducted the final examination OF
| the first sem ,ster last week under rigorous
rules. To provide against any possibility
of cheating. the students were given bound
blank books for writing their answers 50
that no Individual sheets might be passed
from one to another. Members OF two
classes were put in the same room and
| seated in alternate rows to prevent their
comforting with each other, and spoilers
were put on guard to prevent any further
possibility of their evading the regulations
of the examination and transferring in
formation. II a student for any purpose
| wished to leave the room, he was followed
by a spotter, and there was one instance
where a student was forced to remove his
coat when he left the room for a few mo-
ments,