The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-04-08
2 NEWCOURSEs F0RIFARMERS
Manual Arts Work wilr'b be Featured at
Summer Session With View of Aid
ing Teachers to Become More Pro-
fcient in This Line of Work.

Courses in six subjects never before
attempted during the summer session
have been added to the curriculum of
the summer school Of the University of
Wisconsin this year, according to an
announcement issued today by Prof. S.
III. Goodnight, director. The session
will open June 81 and continue through
July 80.
Two new courses in agriculture are
included in the added studies. One Of
them in agricultural extension methods,
to be given by Prof. X. L. Hatch, is
aimed to meet the demand for trained
teachers created by the Smith-Lever
act of Congress which provides appro-
priations for various states for the
promotion Of extension work. The
other course, in experimental breeding,
will be given for the first time by
Prof. i. j, Cole.
In the department. Of education a
course in college administration for
women will be conducted for the first
time. under the direction of Dean Lois
X. Mathews. This course is open only
to women who hold administrative Of
fcesiin colleges, or who are deans, mat
rons, or mistresses. Dean Mathews is
the author of a book just issued on
this subject.
Dean Arthur Holmes of the Pennsyl-
vanSa state colleges, comes to the uni
versity to conduct two courses in the
training and treatment Of backward
children. The summer session will find
him, on the faculty for the first time.
Geology will be initiated in the sum-
mer session time table during the com
ing summer. In past years it has been
impossible to hold this course during
summer school inasmuch as most of the
students are engaged in field work.
This year, however, the courses will be
given at the summer term, while the
four weeks field course will be held at
DEVILS Lake Immediately after the
iClose of summer school.
Several new courses in art are on the
curriculum. They will be given by
Prof. Alfred M. Brooks, Indiana Uni
versity land concern the history of
architecture, graphic architecture, and
public lectures on "World Domes,
Spires and Towers"
A new course in elementary Norwe-
gian by DIR. Hollander is an addition
to the language department..
Prof. G. @. Comstock, director of che
Washburn observatory, will appear in
summer session for the first time with
course in astronomy, while Prof. D..
90. Munro will terminate his connection
with the University of Wisconsin to
accept chair at Pennsylvania with the
conclusion of his course on the Cru
sades and Medieval civilization at the
summer school.
Prof. Ira Griffith, head Of the manual
arts course at the University of Mis-
souri,, will instruct summer session
students on the organized teaching of
manual arts.
The"courses in engineering and law
are practically the same as those Civ
en- last. summer
Last year 1902 persons were enroll
ed at the summer school. Of this mum
Der 1,349 were teachers ,one-third were
graduate students working for higher
degrees, and AZ came from foreign
countries.
Whether the attendance will be
equaled this session is doubtful accord
ing to Prof. Goodnight. In the past
five years the enrolment has practical
ly doubled, but strained commercial
conditions which have prevailed since
the outbreak Of the European war NAV
have their effect on the summer school
attendance, Prof. Goodnight said.
Conversation tables in French and
Spanish will be conducted at the
Lothrop cafeteria, while German tables
will be operated at ''Das Deutscbe
-Haus," where they proved very sue.
cessful last summer.