The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-02-03
Home Reading Course No. 6

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ca certificate. bearing the seal Of
the United States Bureau of Educa-
ton. signed by the commissioner of
education, will be given to each per-
son who gives satisfactory evidence
Of having read all the books on the
accompanying list. You are invited
to Join the great national reading
circle, making your own selection from
the reading courses provided.
The best and most complete express
sion of the ideals and tendencies Of
any people at any time is to be found
in their literature. For modern times
this expression Is to be found most
often and most fully in great works
Of fiction. Without an acqua intance
with some of these books it is i'm
possible to know the inner life-the
real Hfe-of the peoples of whom such
knowledge is most worth while.
Any reading of history, any scien-
tific study of economics or sociology,
should be supplemented by some read
ing of the writings of the masters of
fiction. The home education division
of the Bureau of Education has there
fore prepared the following list of
thirty books of fiction, mostly modern,
for those who wish to read to good
purposes in this field
The value of such literature is we'll
indicated by DR.. c. Alphonso Smith,
of the University of Virginia. in his
book, What Can Literature Do For
Me? He says of literature of this and
other kinds that it can give you an
outlet for your own ideals and
thoughts. it can keep before you the
vision of the ideal, it can give you a
better knowledge of human nature, it
can restore the past to you, it can
show you the glory of the common
place, it can give you the mastery of
your own language.
Acquiring Method
AS the end of this list of 80 books
is list of five books helpful in fix
ing purpose and acquiring a method
in reading. Those who take this
course of reading under the direction
of the Bureau of Education will be
expected to read these five books also.
For admission to this course it is
necessary only to write to the Home
Education Division of the Bureau of
Education, Washington, d. c., giving
your name, postoffice address, your
age, and a brief statement of your
education and occupation. Readers
who wish to secure the bureaus GER
tIflcate must notify the bureau at the
time they begin each book, and when
each book is finished they must
send a summary consisting of a des-
crlption of the principal characters,
the chief episodes, and their own i'm
pressions. Some of the books do not
lend themselves to this form of sum-
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statement of the essential features Of
The books.
Will Award Certificates.
To each person who gives satisfac-
tory evidence of having read all the
books on the list, a certificate will be
awarded bearing the seal of the Unit
ed States Bureau of Education and
signed by the commissioner of educa-
ton. All men and women who want
to know the best there is in the litera-
ture of the world and to gain the in
SEPARATION it gives, are invited to join
this national reading circle.
By application to local or state Ii
braries, readers may be able to borrow
these books. The Bureau of Educa-
ton does not furnish them.
Charles Alphonso Smith, Edgar AL
Ian Poe, professor of English in the
University of Virginia; Charles Fors-
ter Smith, professor of Greek, in the
University of Wisconsin; Richard Bur
ton, professor of English literature in
the University of Minnesota, and Will
liam Lyon Phelps, professor of English
literature in Yale university, have as
sisted the Bureau of Education in di-
recting this course.
In writing about this course, refer