New Britain herald., 1929-11-26
BUSINESS COURSES
 IN EVENING SCHOOL
New Britain First in Country to
 Adopt Plan

Inc correspondence course for evening schools which was approved at recent meeting of the school board will be ready for the enroll 1nent of students on Monday, De- .celnber ?, at the Central Junior high school.
 Newell $. Amcs of the. senior high school faculty will be in charge and the work which he will supervise will be the equivalent to a high school co,rsc. Pupils must have completed the eighth grade in school 10 be eligible. The course will be supervised by teachers skilled in the live projects offered. This will thus eliminate the difficulties which correspondence pupils have had.
 The course will include instruction m bookkeeping, industrial organiZa- iIon, retail selling, plain English ana commercial rspondencc Ac- NordlnS 70 James l.. O'Bren, direc. tor of evening schools, it is the frs; course of it's kind in the country.
 A pamphlet explaining the plan kays:
 The folloWing plan for cores Bonding study is offered to meet the nocds of men and women who wish 10 acquire q knowledge of certain 'uslncss subjects, The majority or people who subscribe 10 corrcspon- nencc courses never complete them SoD'c of the possible reasons for failures arc: discouragement, failure 70 understand subject matter, loss of interest, loneliness in working by ones self.
 The New Britain Plan eliminates theSc handicaps and combines the advantages of correspondence study with class room consultation. Some pf the advantages of correspondence study are: a well defined course of study with detailed printed instruc- tIonS' written criticisms of each les son by an expert examiner, pcrmis- HIol 10 begin q course at any time. liberal time allowance in which 1o complete q course. freedom to worl, at ones own mental pace. These ad- fantagcs will De combined with tbe advantage of at least one weekly ''aSS room meeting at which in. Sluden1S of d particular course will .oill with an adviser in discussjno Inc subject, clearing up points tbat 'nc printed instructions h;kve not made clear making the acuuain- tdhco Of other students and so help Ing 10 encourage one another.
 nc Massachusetts State Dopart- Ment of Education maintains de- nHr rih'eht known as the Division of hIFerSIty Extension, which offerso Correspondence courses in many subjects. The courses are written 'hy experts and papers sent for cor teciIons are passed upon by exam merS who are selected for Their .InbiIity to offer constructive critj- tiSm 10 the student
 "Thc New Britain Courses of Cor FoSpondcncc Study are selected from Inc cOurs $ of the Massachusetts Di- vision of University Extension Prospective students who are inter- "Stod in enrolling in one or more or these courses will be given such aH opportunity on the evening of Monday, December .. 1929, at seven o'clock in Room 10G of the Central Junior high school.
 "A fec will be charged for each rours' The fee charged will be the regular catalog feed advertised in The bulletin Of Massachusetts Divi- son of University Extension pIus two dollars. The total fec will in tiudc lesson material. text books 'uSIh"sS forms, correcting Of papers, postage, occasional notices to stu- tents and supervision of the work.
 The director of Correspondence study will enroll students and col rect ices, order the lesson material and text books and be responsible Tor sending papers for correction. these papers when returned 10 him Will be distributed to the students who will confer with the adviser 'ohceFnlng the examiners criti- rSmS.
 "Thcro will be weekly mcctinp ht which an hour will be given 10 discussing the subject, crjtjcisinr papers that arc to be submitted for correction and discussing the criti- rIslns on returned papers The cvc- "'S and time for each meeting will oe announced after the courses arc Organized.