Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1920 — EWES PROGRAM FOR UNIVERSITY SUMMER SCHOOL [ARTICLE]

EWES PROGRAM FOR UNIVERSITY SUMMER SCHOOL

SESSIONS OPEN ON JUNE 7 AND CLOSE AUGUST 20 WITH MANY COURSES OF- k —fered. "■ ■—* 1M INSTRUCTORS ON STAFF Subjects Taught Equivalent to Those Available In Academic Instruction During Year.

'I hope that the time is not far away when the public schools from the primary grades to the universities will go on the year around. It is not necessary to argue the manifest advantage of such a plan. Meanwhile, we have in the University, the Summer School which is now in essential respects a term of the University, year. It is evident that the Summer Session meets a real need because increasing numbers of young people are taking advantage of it. WILLIAM LOWE BRYAN.

The. thirty-first annual Summer Session of Indiana University will open on Monday, June 7, 1920. The College of Liberal Arts, the Graduate School, the undergraduate university course in the School of Education, and the School of Medicine will dose on Friday, Jtriy 80. Courses for candidates for Class A and Class B teachers’ certificates, and the School of Law, will close on Friday, August 20. Special six weeks courses in Vocational Education will begin on Monday, June 14, and close on Friday July 23. The Biological Station, at Winona Lake, will open on Saturday, June 12, and close on Friday, August 20.

The distinctive advantage of summer sessions have come to be so thoroughly recognized that they are now regarded as an integral part of our educational system. One of the leading educators of the country stated recently that he believed the summer session to be the ground for educational practice and the greatest fertilizer ofeducation. The work of the summer session possesses a greater measure of plasticity and freedom of initiative than usually characterizes the work of the academic* yepr. No one who is anxious to fit himself for his part in the reconstruction work of the nert decades should fail to consider the opportunities offered by the summer session for enabling him to achieve that end. Originated as Private Enterprise. The Summer Session of Indiana University originated in 1890 as aprivate enterprise, the instructors being remunerated solely from the fees paid by thestudents. In 1900 the University assumed full control of the summer work. The enrollment has increased from year to year until in 1919 nearly fourteen hundred persons -availed themselves of the opportunities offered by the Summer Session. For the session of 1920, an instructional staff numbering more than one hundred members has been engaged, including many heads of departments and other members of the University faculty as well as a number of men and women of other educational institutions, experts in their respective fields. Professor Ludwig R. Geissler, phjl, of the faculty of Clark University, and editor of the Journal of Applied Psychology, who has . also given courses in the University of Illinois Mid Cornell University, has been secured for courses in social psychology and mental measurements. Dr. Geissler is a recognized authority in the field of psychology and especially along the line of social and mental measurements. All work offered during the Summer Session is equivalent in method, character, and credit value to the work of the acadeifaic year. The Summer Session is equal in length ami amount of credit granted to a half-semester. The regular university work offered envies high school graduates of 192 t to begin their college work immediately; it affords to those who do not intend to become candidates for degrees, an opportunity to secure some umrarsity training and yet take the great part of the year free for other pursuits; and it presents an opportunity to university students of the academic year who wish to earn extra credit, to reduce the length oftime necessary to complete their courses, or to make up deficiencies. InJM of* 1920 regular uaivmrsaty courses willbe offered in the following departments: Anatomy, Botany, Chemistry, Economies and S*eiotary» Education, English, Fine Arts, Geology, Gmssu, History, Home Econoarics. Hygiene, Journalism, -Latin, Mathematics, Military Science and languages, courses in commercial ISSmtiwaM Vbcattoaal Educatwa. •—— — * ■ • — - "