The New York herald., 1920-01-25
COLUMBIA TO OFFER
| MANY NEW COURSES
Varied and Comprehensive
Scheme of Study to Provide
Education at Home.
ALSO AID AMITY ABOARD
Subjects to Inclue History and Civ
ilization of Russia and Other
European Countries.

Hundreds of courses, many taught by
university instructors OF the first rank,
and covering practically the whole range
OF university endeavor, will be open to
qualified students without examination in
the Columbia Department Of Teaching dur
ing the spring term, which begins Febru-
ary 4. 1t was announced by the director
Professor James c. Egbert yesterday.
comprehensive plan of home study will
be offered which will enable students to-
get Columbia instruction no matter where
they reside. A feature of the extension
work during the coming term will be a
greater educational campaign to bring the
culture and language of the new states
of Europe closer to Americans.
Announcement of the plans for the
courses in extension, described as the most
ambitious ever undertaken by an Ameri-
can university, include courses in science.
languages. law. dentistry. business, medi-
cine, architecture OPTICS library, econon1-
les. library, medicine, history. art. litera-
ture, music, sociology and the practical
arts.
To Teach Polish History.
AS supplement to the work on Poland.
already successfully begun during the WIN
Ter term, course will be given by Pro-
lessor j. d. Prince on the history of the
Tohsh republic, compared with the history
or the Czecno-Slovak peoples and of tnt
JuSo-Slavs tSerbs, Croats and Slovens)
Fhere will also be a course on tie history
OF Polish literature. while free public lect-
nres on Poland will be delivered through
me months of February March and April
feature of the work of the spring
term VIII be the two new extension series
courses arranged under the direction of
Irofessor Prince. They will be given by
Professor Nicholas Borodn acting presi-
dent or the Russian-America Friendly So
ciety, and will relate to the economies
natural resources and industries of Rus
sia, ana the culture, folklore, poetry art
music ana science of the same country
nese lectures will be accompanied by a
demonstration of exhibits and musical
recitals under the direction of the Russian
composer, ). V. Rakhmannoff.
Russian Religion Course.
IN the university proper a new course on
'he .enets and development of the numer-
Gus Russian religious sects will be offered
py Or. {. "A. Manning. The story of the
rise and development of democratic
,nought IN Russia and the history of the
RUSSIAN revolution will be embodied in an
extension lecture by L. Andrevski
The Slavonic department offers courses
IN language, as well as in history and
economies. This department has obtained
the services of Nine. Helen Dmitriyevich.
formerly of Mich, Serbia to give an ex-
tension course in the elementary study
OK the Serbo-Croatian language, the Off
cial idom of the new kingdom of the Serbs.
,roats and Slovenes. AS an adjunct to
me SlaVonic language work, " Kalen-
eli
Inc Armenian language and literature.
Two language courses in Assyrian will
he given by DR.. Frederick A. Wander
burgh LECTURER in Oriental languages.
one is beginners course and the other
will consist of readings from bilingual
texts. DR.. Vanderburgh will also give a
course in the history of Western Asia
Work In Casualty Insurance.
The business courses to be offered in
extension include one in casualty insur-
ance by Ralph NJ. Blanchard, instructor
in insurance in the Columbia School of
Business. The Department of Agriculture
VIII offer short courses in poultry farm
machinery and live stock; and full courses
in field crops, soil management, farm
management. fruit growing and vege-
table raising. These courses will be given
in corporation with Cornell University
and the State Department of Farms and
Markets.
Another course will take up the paint
ings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
study of the originals will be made
under DR.. George kriehn, lecturer in the
history of art.
Extension courses are open to both men
and women who may pursue them after
noon or evening. The attendance in this
department has been greatly stimula ted
by the war and the coming term. which
begins February 4. is expected to attract
the largest attendance in the history of
extension teaching at Columbia
Approval by the faculty of n three year
curriculum in preparation for manage
ment engineering in the operation of fac
tories and the establishment of n new
degree of management engineer is an
nounced in the annual report of Dean
George B. Pegram, of the Columb bia
school OF Mines, Engineer and Chemls-
try, made public yesterday.