The log cabin Democrat., 1921-05-12
SCHOOLS FAST DEVELOP CORRESPONDENCE WORK Most Striking Force in College Field With 10000 Enrolled-All
 Classes Reached.
(By the Associated Press)

Chicago, May 12.-Opening of the university front door by means of correspondence courses, so that vaude- vile actor, cook or printer can go to college by mail if he chooses, is one of the most striking developments of the college world of today, it is in- dicated by partial census of this field taken by the Associated Press.
 In 13 universities more than 40,- 900 persons the great majority past college age and from a great many walks of life-were reported taking college courses with two cent stamp. This was the list:
 University of Chicago 5,757, Colum- bia University 800, University of Florida 5,804, Indiana University 536, Iowa State College 240, Univer- sity of Kansas 1900, University of Kentucky 474, University of Minnesota 752, University of Missouri 1,297, University of North Dakota 250, Ohio State University 4,9OO, University of Oklahoma 800, University of Texas 1,529, University of Wisconsin 20,116.
 They came from everywhere, here and abroad. One member of the Uni versity of Chicago's correspondence classes lives above the Arctic Circle, 125 miles south of Alaska's farth- est northern point. Another, in China i sten days by coolie train beyond the farthest navigable point on the Yantse Kiang. More than 300 differ ent occupations were furnished stu dents for Ohio State University's az ricultural correspondence courses at the last listing Persons taking col lege mail courses, there and elsewhere, run from day laborers, clergymen, farmers, grocery clerks, boarding housekeepers, cooks, bank clerks, geologists and quarreymen to carpen- ters, mill workers, vaudeville actors, artists, walters, men in penitentiaries, janitors, probation officers, dress makers and ball players.
 While college correspondence courses are by no means new, they are developing rapidly in a number of schools. In still other great insti- tutions nothing is being done in this field, for instance at the universities of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Illi- nois.
 Courses most favored differ, with different institutions. At Wisconsin business was most popular, third of the correspondence students, or 6896, taking it, while engineering and industrial studies draw fourth. At the University of Kansas it was for eign languages that stood first, at the University of Kentucky practica mining, at the University of Oklaho- ma, education, and at the University of Chicago, Indiana and Texas, Eng fish.
 A characteristic feature of the col lege cores spondence courses is the rapiditv with which they help the university to meet popular demand for instruction. An outstanding H. lustration of this is noted at the University of Wisconsin, where work on the preparation of a course IT i federal income tax accouhIlhg "a' carried on while the law was in the making. The course was completed and enrolment of students begun within a very few days after the president signed the act.
 Indicative of the extent to whicf this work is carried on at the Uni versity of Wisconsin, 26 text books have been prepared by the cores pondence staff. The number of copies sold in the last ten years to others than the university's correspondence students, upon which the institution received a royalty, was 135,O5o, Roy alties the past year alone totaiie' | cSO 0OO