Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
KAYSER HEADS SPECIAL STUDENT
BRANCH OF G. w. UNIVERSITY
Program Developed to Make
School National in
Scope.
Survey viii Be Made to De-
termine Extension
Work Need.

| Further development of the program
to extend George Washington Univer-
sity to the full stature of the complete
urban university, national in scope, has
been made this year through establish
ment of division of special and extern
sion students.
| The addition of this academic unit
makes the institution a veritable univer-
sity of the people. providing, as before
traditional studies and disciplines OF
liberal arts and sciences curriculum and
! OF various professional schools and in
| addition making available a wide vari-
| ETY. of special courses designed to give
cultural richness to intellectual life and
greater proficiency to vocational activity
/ of the individual.
Served as Secretary.
Prof Elmer Louis Kayser of the his
tory department, who has served for / 1
years as secretary of the university and
! Tor years as director of it's Summer
sessions, has been named director of the
| division OF special and extension stu
| dents, it is announced by DR.. Cloyd
Heck Marvin, president.
During the coming year a survey will
be made of the demands and opportu-
mites in the direction of extension work
in Washington and the surrounding re-
gion, with view to adding next year
any courses for which there may be a
need in the community.
Meanwhile, the student nucleus of the
new division will be the group of special
students already registered In the uni
versity, which numbered last year about
1000. This group is composed of ma
ture students, most of them already in
business and professional life. Special
students are those over 81 years of age
whose preparation is sufficient to permit
their pursuing with profit elected studies.
Abundance as special student in all
cases is upon the specific authorization
OF the instructor in charge of the course.
Special students will be designated not
as students of a particular school, but
as university students" in which status
they will remain so long as they pursue
studies of special nature only. Upon
meeting the specific requirements they
may be transferred to the school or col.
lege of their choice.
Has TwOfold Purpose.
The effort of the division In behalf of
university students will be twofold-first,
TO provide special studies to meet their
special needs; second, to assist them in
regularizing their work so that II de-
sired they may later become candidates
for degrees.
Delayed one day because Of enroll
ment demands which necessitated pro-
longing the registration period. classes
IN the university opened on Thursday,
On Friday opening assemblies were held
for freshmen, when they were welcomed
to the university by President Cloyd
Heck Marvin and heard addresses by
DR.. William Allen Wilbur, provost: Dean
Henry Grattan Doyle of the Junior Col
lege; James e. Pixlee, director of pflysi-
cal education for men; Ruth Atwell.
director OF physical education for won1-
en-; Mrs. Winnie G. Barrows, director of
women's personnel guidance, and Prof.
Willard Hayes Yeager, head of the de-
partment Of public speaking. Wednes.
day afternoon the freshman women were
entertained at tea by the George
Washington Y. w. c. A., and on FRIDAY
night dance was given for all students
OF the university under the auspices of
the Student Council.
Law School students assembled We'd
nesday afternoon, when they were ad-
dressed by Judge Joseph w. Cox of the
District Supreme Court, a member of
the Law School faculty, and by Chief
Justice Alfred Adams Wheat. an alum
nus OF the Law School and president of