Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1887 — A Correspondence University. [ARTICLE]

A Correspondence University.

A number of teachers from different parts of the country have formed an organization with the above title, with a view to keeping up their studies, so as not to fall behind the knowledge of their day. These instructors are graduates of all the leading colleges in the United States. Students have found that after leaving the colleges from which they graduated, they quickly lose the power of concentrating their faculties in pursuing new branches of study. The value of an education is the power it gives one to acquire almost any kind of knowledge by close, mental application. The object of the correspondence university is to stimulate them to methodical study, when their evocations are such as might distract them, from continuous intellectual work. It is intended to directly benefit those engaged in professional studies which can be taught by correspondence; graduates domg advanced work: underteachers in schools and colleges; those preparing for college; members of cultivated families who are obliged to live in remote localities; officers and men in the army and navy; persons intending to try any of the civil service examinations ; young men and women engaged in occupations which prevent their attending school, and yet who desire to learn. The fee for four weeks’ tuition in any study of the grade required for admission to a college and in some collegiate studies, is $6.35; in studies of an advanced grade, the fee is $3.25. The list of studies now include agriculture, astronomy, botany, drawing, engineering, engraving, military science, music, physiology, zoology, mathematics, Greek, Latin, English, German, Hebrew, philosophy, history, political science, and law. Mr. Lucien A. Wait, the Secretary, of Ithaca, New York, is the proper person to address for full particulars. —Demorest’s Monthly.