Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1888 — A Correspondence University. [ARTICLE]

A Correspondence University.

A number of teachers from different parte of the country 'have formed organization with the above title, with a vievr to keeping up their studies, so aa net to faH behind the knowledge of their day. These instructors are graduates of all the leading colleges in tfeb tJnited States. Students have found that after leaving the colleges from which they graduated, they quickly lose the power of concentrating thenr faculties m pursuing new branches ol study. The value of an education is the power it gives one to acquire almost %ny kind of knowledge by close, mental application. The object of the correspondence university is' to stimulate them to methodical study, when thefcr evocations are such as might distract them from continuous intellectual workit is intended to directly benefit thosp engaged in professional studies which oan be taught by correspondence; graduates doing advanced work: unde*teaohers in sohools and colleges; those preparing for collage; members of cultivated families who are obliged to lity in remote localities; officers and mdi 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 deaixe to learn. The fee for four weeks’ tuition in any study of' the grade required for admission to a college anti some collegiate studies, k • >•>; jp studies of an advanced grade, the fee ijt SB. 26. The list of studies now include agriculture, astronomy, 1 botany, drawling, engineering, engraving, military science, music, physiology, zoologi, mathematics, Greek, Latin, English. German, Hebrew, philosophy, history, pb&fttat science, and law. Mr. A- Walk Secretary, of Ithaca, New York, u the proper person to sdIjpitjg fall ptetfcul&ia- - *E>em®real?# _ _