The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-06

should I've strolling through Gun
sight Pass among the July
SHOWS N the Glacier National
p.,r and YOU should come upon a
1ar,van OF some fifty young men and
men with alpenstocks and binocu-
,.rs husinesslike, long headed ham,
mers slung at belt or shoulder. make
49, mistake. These are not German
"nios come to explore new routes
.rross the Rockies into Canada. Still
,oss are they mere frivolous travellers
aho have regretfully resigned them
Gives TO killing a summer by seeing
America first.
They are students. Students in the
,ou s,yle. for whom the path OF learn
,nc leads far from college libraries,
eng sun blessed. wind swept reaches
=, the out trail. The expedition con-
sIs,s Of faculty and oil
geography s25f and s12lf. Columbia
ACCOMPLISHMENTS Session." who
meet for lectures In a classroom reach
inc from Montana to the Pacific.
wben they get back home. after a
ro,,h or two more Of tramping,
mo,orinr. staging. climbing and note
,aklng. they will receive credit for the
york toward a regular Columbia de-
gree.
Tho tremendous mill OF the Amcri-
can college system has produced new
,ypes Of student. Among others 1t
has developed the student Of the sum-
mer school. who seems. at least to n
eryious outsider, to have discovered a
Genuine royal road to learning. A
hundred or more universities n coll
,eces are open for a summer session;
Il Is estimated that about 10000 sum-
mer students are enrolled in the
United States. Columbia alone had
$500 las, year, or more than the total
AT. ndance Of both Harvard n
Princeton throughout the year.
They come from everywhere: from
every State and practically every Tor
eIgn country. More than half Of them
are women. and a large proportion are
Young teachers. tired after a hard
years work. Not a few are UNDER
graduates from big and little colleges
who want to take a course or two
during the summer at a sister institu-
ton so that they may return in the
fall with a credit which will tighten
the task ahead Of them or enable them
10 shorten the period before the earn
ing Of their degree. Chicago Univer-
sity, in fact. runs full blast throughout
the year under a four term system by
which a student who works summers
may complete the regular four years
course IN three busy years.
The life has its hardships, but ex-
p~erience has shown that they can he
borne. Take for instance the courses
elected by the party which might be
encountered in Glacier Park. The
students are expected to leave New
York on the Fourth Of July, which is
a Sunday. This double trial will be
followed by a trip to Chicago, a two
days journey on into Wyoming and
then Immediately upon arrival an
automobile trip to the Devils Tower.
Another automobile trip will be re-
CURED the very next afternoon and the
Students will be required to give their
Undivided attention 10 the wonders of
he Yellowstone Park until the follow
.ag Monday.
Another week will be spent in the
Glacier National Park, where there
VII be a week of tramping, mountain
climbing and miscellaneous study OF
geography. After a few days in Seat
lie and Portland and a days rest al
Medford the serious work of the class
viii he begun again by automobile and
varied only by boating and tramping
4h.v. t'r4Far I aEa u,ilI hA continued
until in the following week San Fran
cisco is reached.
Here, however, is only a e OF
new eudeavor. Besides the exploration
q the Panama-Pacifc Exposition q
special excursion will be made to the
great r,f, or fault made by the grea,
San Francisco earthq-a thousand
pardons, They don't say 1t that way
on the coast. The geographers viii
visit the fault which caused an earth.
quake a few years ago. which hap
pened a few minutes before the bis
hre when San Francisco burned.
Another week will be spent in tht
Yosemite Valley: then after a fiyine
second visit to San Francisco, trips &c
The Big Trees, Mount Lassen, the one
active volcano Of the United States
and " weeks in Colorado and Utah
NE students will head homeward
zach one who has performed the jour
hty successfully and completed the
required notes and examinations will
oe entitled to 6 points, or the credit
o' full years work in one subject
toward a Columbia degree.
This is only one Of a considerable
number 4 Geographical and geologi'
Ia! held courses which are offered by
american universities. Harvard Il
ending twp expeditions into tn
"oehics, each with its own camp ant
outht' and ,hese will strike into tn,
N"dernoss. living for the most par
lar nom Tho railroads.
Inc University Of Chicago is send
NIX three, IA Of which will make
"hs t'lp Trough the Southwest, an,