Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1902 — SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES [ARTICLE]

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

Cornell University announces that courses in its next summer session will be geography and underlying sciences. This will be the first American summer school of geography. The New York Teachers’ Association has decided to establish courses of advanced study for its members, and will be incorporated so aa to hold examinations and award degrees. Prof. Frnncia Kelsey, head of the Latin department of Michigan University, underwent an operation for encysted liver, a disease of which this is the eighteenth case on record in the world. The Chinese government has made provision for sending a number of Chineso students to American colleges at government expense. Upon their return those successful in examinations will receive government positions. A complete revolution in school procedure and in school bnilding is predicted by Prof. Armstrong, head of the education section of tbe British Association for the Advancement of Science. The school, he saya, will soon be modeled on the workshop and a great part of the time spent at the bench with tool in hand. Nature’s workshop will also be used and provision made for physical training and outdoor exercise. The present method of spending homo-daily in recitations and book liadj, he said, was etupid. The University of Michigan has introduced a new coarse on the theories of annuities and insurance. This is the first attempt of any university in this country to treat the mathematical or actuary side es insurance. It ia announced that students who have received the B. A. degree at any college without studying Greek may enter Yale and receive the M. A. degree without being obliged to make np this study. These student* may also enter the senior class at Yale and graduate at the end of a year without studying Greek.