The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-15
COLLEGES TEACH
BY MAIL COURSES
More Than 10000 Persons in Is Uni
versities Have Taken Cores
pondence Courses

CHICAGO, May 14.-Openlng Oh lne
university front door by means OF cor
respondence courses. so that vaudeville
actor, cook or printer can go to coisl
lege by mail if he chooses, Is one OF
the most striking developments or the
college world of today, it is indicated
by a partial census of this field taken
by the Associated~Press
In 13 universities more than 10000
persons-the great majority past col
lege age and from a great many walks
of life--were reported taking college
course with two cent stamp. This
was the list:
| University of Chicago .........., 6,575
Columbia University ...........a 500
University of Florida s.,...-.... 5,804
Indiana University ....-~........ $50
Iowa State College ..........-. 240
University of Kansas ........... 1900
University Of Kentucky ......-.. 474
University Of Minnesota .-.-- .... 752
! University Of Missouri ........... 1927
University of North Dakota ....t $50
Ohio State University .......... 1890
University of Oklahoma ........ 800
University of Texas ......-.....- 1929
University of Wisconsin $3.50. .20,116
They come from everywhere, here
and abroad. One member of the Uni
versity of Chicago's correspondence
classes lives above the Arctice Circle,
125 miles south of Alaska's farthest
northern point. Another, in China, Is
ten days by coolie train beyond the
fathest navigable point On the Yantse
Kiang.
More than 800 different occupations
were furnished students for Ohio State
University's agricultural correspond
) ence courses at the last listing. Per-
sons taking college mail course, there
and elsewhere, run from day laborers,
clergymen, farmers, grocery clerks,
boarding housekeepers, cooks, bank
clerks. biologists and quarrymen to
carpenters mill workers, vaudeville ac-
tors, artists, walters, men in peniten-
tiaries, janitors, probation officers,
dressmakers and ball players.
While college correspondence courses
are by no means new, they are devel-
i oping rapidly in a number of schools.
4 In still other great institutions moth
ing is being done in this field, for in
stance at the universities Of Pennsyl-
e vania, Michigan and Illinois.
= Courses most favored differ with
t different institutions. At Wisconsin
9 business was most popular, a third of
= the correspondence students, or 1896,
g taking 1t, while engineering and indus
s trial studies draw a fourth. At the
= University of Kansas it was foreign
t languages that stood first, at the Uni
versity of Kentucky practical mining,
at the University Of Oklahoma, edu-
cation, and at the University Of Chi
cago, Indiana and Texas, English.
A characteristic feature of the col
5 lege correspondence courses is the
} rapidity with which they help the uni
versity to meet popular demand for In
b. struction. An outstanding illustrat ton
l of this is noted at the University OF
8 Wisconsin, where work on the prepar-
e alton of a course in federal income tax
: accounting was carried on while the
4 law was in the making. The course
r was completed and enrolment Of stu
y dents begun within a very few days
e after the president signed the act.
a Indicative of the extent to which this
r work is carried on at the University
Q of Wisconsin, 26 text books have beer
prepared by the correspondence staff
The number of copies sold in the last
II ten years to others than the univer-
= sitys CORES pondence students, upon
e which the institution received a royal
r ty, was 135,050. Royalties the past
: year alone totalled 100000.