The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-24
COLLEGE COURSES
 FIND FAVOR HERE
Columbia Sends Many Noted Teachers and Big Enroll
 ment Results.

Some 300 people of this city and surrounding towns have already signi-
 fled their intentions of attending the college extension courses of Columbia University which are to open in this city the week of October 9th. The classes were most successfully tried out here last spring and the excel fence of the training which they pro- vfded was so marked that registra- ton for this years broader courses inn mediateIy- began, and now Bridgeport has the largest extension course of the university.
 The broad scope of the courses de- bends entirely upon the people of the community as the University Is willing to give any course in which enough 1 persons are interested to make up tho required registration number. People of outlying towns such as Fairfield, Stratford and Milford. have been quick to grasp the opportunity those places has been very large. l The advantages of the college ex- tension courses, where no particular 1 previous amount of schooling is re- | quired and where no examinations are 1 given either at the beginning or end of the courses, are many. Members | of the various classes may take the work from either of two standpoints for University credit or for personal satisfaction only. If tho former they a.
 Because Of the heavy registration it ehas been found necessary to drop the continuation class in English, the first semester of which was given last lspring, until the second term
 Glass in Spanish.
 Because of the introduction of Spanish into the seventh and eighth grades by the Board of Education, a beginners class in Spanish has been arranged. The time of it's meeting will be announced as soon as known but the class is assured.
 Miss Ballard. who is to teach the be- ginners' class in French is joint author tions are receiveds Cat least 150 a class beginning German may also be start | ed. It would meet the same evening as the French class, W edpesday. Peo- pie interested in these classes should lscommunicate with E. iE. Cortright, principal of Shelton school-to whom is due the greatest share of the credit l flor bringing, the extension course to this city and who has worked unceas- ingiy in it's behalf.
 !, One of the advantages of the exten- sion course is the exceIlency of the in structors provided. Edgar White Burrill, who conducted Lne English course last season and who will have five classes this term. needs no intro duction to Bridgeport as his splendid 4 . BurriH who received his degrees of A. B. and A M. at Amherst. besides be- l ing an instructor at Lake Forest and Northwestern University has also been a lecturer for the Drama League of America, the Department of Edu- ute of Arts and Sciences, Columbia, and the ChatauQua Institution.
 pr. Franklin T. Baker, who will conduct the class in the Teaching of English in the Elementary schools is the professor of English Language and Literature of Teachers' College Go 1umbia.
 Miss Anna Woods Ballard, who viii teach the beginners Trench also the class beginning German if such class is formed. is the author of Short Stor- tes for Oral French. joint author i{(with Max WaIter) of Beginners French and joint author, (wifh Will liam M Prfce) of Short Stories for Oral German.
 Miss Genevieve Lenore Coy, insuuc- tor in the two educational courses is the assistant in educational psychoI, ogy, Teache CTS College.
 J. Montgomery Gambri1I who is to teach the course in Social and Indus trial history of the United States, has been supervising principal of the pub lie schools of Ellicott City, Md, assist ant state superintendent. Of public in strucdon, Maryland, head of the de- partment of history and civics, Ba1ti- more Polytechnic Institute, editor of the Atlantic Educational Journal, and since 1912, editor of the secondary department of History Teachers Mag azine. He has also been a lecturer at Teachers College. CoFumbial, since 1918.
 The Courses
 The Bridgeport courses will open on Monday, October and will in cIude:
 the elementary schools. 4:16 to 6 p. m., Monday. 2 points each half year. Miss Coy
 The special aim of this course is the formation of principles om method and their application to the subjects commonly taught in primary and grammar schools.
 Educational psychology. Lectures, discussions readings. g points each half year, Miss Coy 7:30 to 9:10 Mon day.
 This course win present those facts and laws of psychology on which are based educati ionaI theory and practice.
 Teaching of English in the clement ary schools 2 points, first half year Professor Baker. 1880 to s:1e D. m. Tn ursday.
 sS A study of subject matter and meth ods- The course will include: (a9 a brief survey of the history of the sub ject; (b) a study of present methods and principles in primary grades; Gel a study of representative classics read in the various grades; (d) the teach ing of composition, both written and oral.
 English composition. 1-2 points each half year MT Burrfl1s Sec. 4:3O to 5:45, Wednesday. Sec. 2, 7:30 to 8:45 Friday.
 This course corresponds in part to English A in Columbua College and is designed to enable the student to write clearly and correctly The work will consist chiefly of the writ ing of compositions beesd on assigned readings or on. the experience of the students, and of critical comment and | advice from the instr11ctor-