The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-10
TO TEACH FRENCH
WaShburn Has Course for Mill
tary Information.
Practical Correspondence for
Conversational Purposes.
NIGHT CLASSES THIS YEAR
Opportunities for All Who
Work During the Day.
Topeka College Opens With
Large Attendance Today.
NIGHT CLASSES THIS YEAR

Washburn college opened the 1917
Is session today
One of the features of the school
program for the coming year will be
the extension and correspondence
work offered by the college to men
enlisted in military organizations. Spe-
cial provision has been made for these
men in the French department under
the supervision of J. E. Kirkpatrick.
The rate for the extension course in
French has been reduced fifty per cent
to the soldiers.
The plan proposed is to prescribe
practical textbooks which emphasize
the conversational methods without
neglecting too much the language con-
struction. Help will be offered by the
issuing of circulars containing in
-structions and suggestions for the
work. Occasional quizzes will be CIV
en-. These will usually be conducted
by members or officers of the COM
pany.
Study International Law.
A second course adapted especially
for the military men of the college
who have been called from the cam
pus is a new course in International
Relations, under Prof. Kirkpatrick.
The course will correspond to poliu-
cal sciences, and 6, of the catalogue.
College credit will be given soldiers
and sailors who enroll for the course.
Open Night school.
Night classes also will be conducted
this year by the college for the men
and women of the city who work dur
ing the day time and do not find
time to enroll in the regular college
work. The night classes will be given
at the college buildings and at the
down town law school building. under
the supervision of Prof. w. c. Wheel
er. Any course in the regular college
curriculum may be secured by the
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eight persons who will enroll in the
course. Applications for enrolment
have already started to come to the
college office. Final enrolment and
registration for the night classes will
be made September II. Meantime APP
plications for enrolment may be made
at the college.
Four New Professors
Four new professors have been
added to the faculty of the College
and former Dean Hughes will remain
on the faculty in the role of professor
of law, having resigned from lis lean
ship to carry on his law textbook
work.
E. Leigh Nudge, of the University
of Ohio. is a second new member of
the faculty. He will be in charge of
the department of education. another
new department. He will conduct a
complete course in normal training
work, which probably will be one of
the drawing cards for the Topeka stu
dents. In addition to his work in the
normal training work he will be in
charge of the psychology department.
Only a few changes in the program of
this branch of the college work are
predicted.
Harry B. Yocum. of Oberlin college
and former teacher in the Kansas
State Agricultural college, will assume
the position of head of the zoological
physiological department He will
succeed the late Prof Herbert Riser
The fourth new member of the
faculty is Albert ]. Harno, who will
succeed Dean T. w. Hughes, of the
law school. Professor Harno is a
graduate of the Dakota Wesleyan uni
versity and of the Yale law school He
has been practicing law in Los An
geles, Cal, since his graduation.
Dean Thomas w. Hughes, of the law
school resigned at the close of the last
term from his position as dean of the
law school. He retired to take up
work on law textbooks. His services
were secured for this fall however,
not as dean but as professor in the
school His work as professor will re-
1ieve him of great deal of work and
responsibility and will alloy, him suf-
ficient time to carry on his law text
book work.
Revise Science Courses
The science courses, too have been
revised for the coming year. Under
the new plan, the general science
course will require sixty hours-which
is one-half the total credits needed
for graduation-in three closely re.
lated sciences. The credits in the
work will be divided into a major, OF
thirty hours, a minor of twenty hours
and second minor of 10 hours.