 | The University of Virginia record February 1, 1921 |  |
BUREAU OF EXTENSION.
| Edwin Anderson Alderman, Ph.B., D.C.L., LL.D. | President |
| Charles Gilmore Maphis | Director |
| Mrs. Charles Calhoun Hedges | Secretary |
| WILLIAM MENTZEL FORREST, B.A., | John B. Cary Memorial Professor of Biblical History and Literature |
| JOHN LEVI MANAHAN, M.A., Ph.D. | Professor of Educational Administration |
| JOHN CALVIN METCALF, M.A., Litt.D. | Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English Literature |
| GEORGE OSCAR FERGUSON, JR., M.A., Ph.D. | Professor of Educational Psychology |
| FISKE KIMBALL, M.Arch., Ph.D. | Professor of Art and Architecture |
| WILLIAM ROYALL SMITHEY, M.A., Ph.D. | Professor of Secondary Education |
| JAMES SOUTHALL WILSON, M.A., Ph.D. | Edgar Allan Poe Professor of English |
| TIPTON RAY SNAVELY, M.A., Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Economics |
| WILFRED ELDRED, M.A., Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Business Administration |
| MARY ELIZABETH PIDGEON, B.A. | Instructor in Citizenship Education |
| JOSEPHINE HOLT, B.A. | Supervisor of Romance Languages, Richmond City High Schools |
| VINCENT G. PARISI, B.A. | Head of the Department of Romance Languages, John Marshall High School |
The Bureau of Extension of the University of Virginia offers to the
people of Virginia its services as follows:
I. Division of Extension Teaching.
Extension Teaching courses are courses of instruction corresponding
closely with courses regularly given in the University by regular members
of the faculty, and are under the administration, supervision and control
of the University, either away from the University buildings or at the
University, for the benefit of persons unable to attend the regular courses
of instruction and to take work in residence. Each course represents a
definite amount of study corresponding to an equivalent amount of work
done in residence at the University, and when completed satisfactorily by
persons meeting the entrance requirements of the University, receives the
same degree of credit as if taken in residence.
Extension teaching classes have been organized as follows, with a
total enrollment to Jan. 1, 1921, of approximately 324:
Danville.
Educational Sociology—Dr. William Royall Smithey.
Lynchburg.
Intelligence Tests—Dr. John Levi Manahan.
Money and Banking—Dr. Wilfred Eldred.
Citizenship and Virginia Government—Miss Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon.
Richmond.
Biblical History and Literature—Dr. William Mentzel Forrest.
Contemporary English Literature: Drama and Poetry—Dr. John Calvin
Metcalf and Dr. James Southall Wilson.
Art in the Colonies and in the Early Republic—Dr. Fiske Kimball.
Elementary Spanish—Miss Josephine Holt.
Business Spanish—Miss Josephine Holt.
Elementary French—Mr. Vincent G. Parisi.
Roanoke.
Intelligence Tests and Their Applications—Dr. George Oscar Ferguson,
Jr.
Money and Banking—Dr. Tipton Ray Snavely.
Citizenship and Virginia Government—Miss Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon.
Staunton.
Citizenship and Virginia Government—Miss Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon.
It is the purpose of the University to extend this service as rapidly as
possible, and application from any community which can organize a class
of not less than fifteen in any subject, will be carefully considered and such
class established, if possible.
II. Division of Extension Lectures.
Lectures by members of the faculty of a popular or technical nature
or addresses for commencement or other special occasions will be furnished
to any community which will pay the traveling expenses of the lecturer.
The following are among the lectures available.
E. A. Alderman, President: Great Peace Congresses of the World;
Causes of the European War; The Organization of Democracy.
H. L. Alden, Adjunct Professor of Astronomy: The Wonders of Space
(Illustrated); A Trip Through the Solar System (Illustrated); Infinitudes
and Infinitesimals.
J. C. Bardin, Associate Professor of Romanic Languages: Why the
United States Should Be Interested in The West Indies; What Is
Latin-America, and Who Are The Latin-Americans?
R. B. Bean, Professor of Anatomy: Types of Man; The Growth of Children.
R. M. Bird, Professor of Chemistry: Educational Prerequisites for Specialized
Training in Science.
E. I. Carruthers, Bursar: The Call of Commerce for College Trained
Men.
G. L. Carter, Associate Professor of Chemistry: Some Curious Facts about
Matter.
J. S. Davis, Professor of the Practice of Medicine: The Effect of Alcohol
on the Human Body and Mind.
G. O. Ferguson, Jr., Professor of Educational Psychology: Backward
and Gifted Children; The Intelligence of 140,000 men at Camp
Lee; Intelligence Tests in Business and Industry; The Psychology of
the Negro.
Arthur Fickenscher, Professor of Music: The Polyphonic School of Music
from its earliest development to J. S. Bach; The Classical Period from
Philipp E. Bach to Beethoven; The Romatic Period; Modern Tendencies
in Music, with illustrations from Cesar Franck, Richard Strauss,
Debussy, Ravel, Schoenberg, etc. (Lecture-Recitals.)
Thomas Fitz-Hugh, Professor of Latin: The Story of Man in Art; Jefferson
the Classicist; George Long and the Early Days of the University;
Shakespeare's Romans.
W. M. Forrest, Professor of Biblical History and Literature: The Literary
Value of the English Bible; The Making of the Bible; The Hebrew
Prophets; The Wise Men of Israel; St. Paul the Man; What
High School Pupils Ought to Know about the Bible.
A. W. Giles, Associate Professor of Geology: The Age of the Earth; Climates
of Geologic Time; Virginia Scenery and its Geologic Interpretation;
The Coal Resources of Southwest Virginia.
W. P. Graham, Associate Professor of Romanic Languages: The Educational
System of France.
R. C. Jones, State Forester: The Proper State Forest Policy for Virginia;
How Owners of Timberland Can Practice Forestry in Virginia;
The Immediate Necessity of a State Forest-Fire-Protection System
in Virginia.
H. E. Jordan, Professor of Histology and Embryology: Lessons from the
Life and Work of Louis Pasteur.
W. A. Kepner, Professor of Biology: Animal Activities; The Place of
Education in Life.
J. L. Luck, Associate Professor of Mathematics: Numbers and Equations;
Graphs and the Function Notion; Limits, Infinity and Infinitesimals
Suitable for High School and Freshman Classes in Mathematics.
I. F. Lewis, Professor of Biology and Agriculture: The Biological Factor
in History; Darwinism Today.
J. L. Manahan, Professor of Educational Administration: How to Know
your Home County and Community; The Public School as an Educational
Measurement; School and Community Coöperation; Standard Tests
and Educational Administration; Parent-Teachers' Associations at
Work.
C. G. Maphis, Dean of the Summer Quarter, Director of Extension: The
Report of the Virginia Education Commission; Thomas Jefferson as
Revealed by His letters; University Extension; Education for Citizenship.
J. C. Metcalf, Professor of English: The Newer Poetry; Americanism in
Literature; The Drama in America.
S. A. Mitchell, Professor of Astronomy: A Trip to the Moon; Forty Thousand
Miles with an Astronomer to Observe Eclipses of the Sun; The
Size of the Universe.
C. P. Olivier, Adjunct Professor of Astronomy: The Histories of Famous
Comets; New Stars of the Twentieth Century.
J. M. Page, Dean of the University: Relations between the University and
High Schools; The Teaching of Elementary Mathematics.
W. R. Smithey, Professor of Secondary Education: The School as a Social
Institution; The Principles of Leadership; The Junior High School.
T. R. Snavely, Associate Professor of Economics: Future Relations between
Labor and Capital; Problems of Taxation in Virginia; Some
Aspects of the Negro Problem.
C. C. Speidel, Adjunct Professor of Anatomy: Some Interesting Comparisons
of Structural Adaptions in the Higher Animals and Man.
W. M. Thornton, Dean of the Department of Engineering: The Farmer's
Roads and How to Improve Them; Macadam and His Followers; The
Automobile and the Roads of the Future.
R. H. Webb, Professor of Greek: The Life of the Ancient Greeks; Greek
Athletics; Recent Discoveries of Greek Literature.
J. S. Wilson, Professor of English: English Poets of Today; The Spirit
of English Poetry; Poe's Philosophy of Art.
III. Division of Debate and Public Discussion.
Through the Virginia High School Literary and Athletic League special
bulletins and handbooks containing information on pertinent questions
for public discussion, will be sent free of cost to any individual,
school, society, club or other organization applying for them, and assistance
in conducting this work will be given.
IV. Division of Citizenship Education.
Through the Division of Citizenship Education, short courses in Citizenship
have been conducted throughout the State and are still available
to any community desiring them. Extension teaching courses in Citizenship
and Virginia Government are also offered.
V. Division of Package Libraries.
The Library of the University will lend a limited number of package
libraries, containing information on public questions for discussion, to
schools and organizations applying and willing to pay transportation
charges.
VI. Division of Publication.
For the purpose of disseminating information and carrying the results
of study, research and investigation of its faculty to as many people as
possible, the Bureau will publish ten special bulletins on various subjects
each year. These bulletins will be sent free of cost to all persons applying
to be placed on the mailing list.
VII. Division of Visual Instruction.
The Bureau of Extension is able to render a service of especial value
to schools and civic societies by lending them complete sets of motion
picture films and stereopticon slides on educational subjects. The only
charge for the service is the cost of transportation and the repairing of
films. A list of films and slides available will be furnished upon application.
VIII. Division of Home Reading Courses.
The United States Bureau of Education has made the Extension
Bureau of the University a distributing agency for its Reading Courses,
and all of the literature sent out by the Bureau of Education is now distributed
through the Extension Bureau. The papers are corrected and
graded and certificates made out by the University.
IX. Division of Short Courses.
It is the purpose of the Extension Bureau to offer a number of short
courses, which will be lecture conferences lasting from several days to a
week, devoted to the extension study of some particular problem in which
any group of persons may be interested. These short courses are intended
primarily for professional, vocational, or business groups, and will be conducted
by means of lectures and conferences led by special lecturers and
instructors both from within and from outside of the University. Business
Men's short courses, short courses for Teachers on a special subject, short
courses in Citizenship, etc., will be given.
| The University of Virginia record February 1, 1921 | |