The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-05-20
COLLEGE COURSES ARE
BEING TAKEN BY OVER
10000 THROUGH Mali

go 10 COlleSe ny IioiA IL ~
is one of the most striking develop
ments of the college world OF today,
it is indicated by a partial census Of
this field taken by The Associated
Press.
In Is universities more than 4O,-
900 persons-the great majority
past college age and from great
many walks of life-were reported
taking college coursese with two
cent stamp. This was the list:
University of Chicago, 5,575.
Columbia University, 500.
University of Florida, 5,804.
Indiana University, 5S6.
Iowa State College, 240.
University of Kansas, 1900.
University of Kentucky, 474.
University of Minnesota, 752.
University Of Missouri, 1927.
University of North Dakota,25O.
Ohio State University, 4,900.
University of Oklahoma, 800.
University of Texas, 1923.
University of Wisconsin,, 2O,116.
They have come from everywhere
here and abroad. One member of the
University of Chicago's correspond
ence classes lives above the Arctic
Circle, 125 miles south of Alaska's
farthest northern point. Another, in
China, is ten days by coolie train
beyond the farthest navigable point
ON the Yantse Kiang.
More than 500 different occupa-
lions were furnished students for
Ohio State University's agricultural
correspondence courses at the last
listing. Person taking college mail
courses, there and elsewhere, run
from day laborers, clergymen, farm
ers, grocery clerks, boarding, house
keepers, cooks, bank clerks, geolo-
gists and quarrymen to carpenters
mill workers, vaudeville actors, ar
fists, walters, men in penntentiaries
janitors, probation officers, dress
makers and ball players.
While college correspondence
courses are by no means new, they
are developing rapidly in number
of schools. In still other great insti-
t4tions nothing is being done in this
field, for instance, at the universi-
ties of Pennsylvania, Michigan and
Illinois.
Courses most favored differ, with
different institutions. At Wisconsin
business was most popular, a third
of the correspondence students, of
6,S96, taking it, while engineering
and industrial studies draw a fourth.
At the university of Kansas it was
foreign languages that stood first, at
the University Of Kentucky practical
mining at the university of Okla
homa, education, and at the Univer-
sity of Chicago, Indiana and Texas,
English.
A characteristic feature of the
college correspondence courses is
the rapidity with which they help
the university to meet popular de-
.mand for instruction. An outstand-
ing illustration of this is noted at
the University of Wisconsin, where
work on the preparation of course
in federal income tax accounting
was carried on while the law was in
the making. The course was COM
pleted and enrolment of students
began within very few days after
the President signed the act.
Indicative of the extent to which
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 corre-
pondence students, upon which, the
institution received royalty, was
$4,000. Royalties the past year
alone totalled $4,000.