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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

Laboratory; Improving Instruction Through 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.