VIII. Bureau 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. The following courses are now available:
Great Literary Bibles; Great Literature; Course for Parents; Course for
Boys; Course for Girls; 30 Books of Great Fiction; 30 World Heroes; American
Literature; 30 American Heroes; American History; France and Her History;
Heroes of American Democracy; The Call of Blue Waters (Seamanship);
Iron and Steel; Shipbuilding; Machine Shop Work; Foreign Trade; Dante;
Master Builders of Today; Teaching; Twenty Good Books for Parents; Agriculture
and Country Life; How to Know Architecture; Citizenship and Government.
Arrangements have been made with the Virginia State Library for persons
pursuing the Home Reading Courses to borrow the necessary books by paying
the cost of carriage each way. Application should be made to Dr. R. H. McIlwaine,
State Librarian, Richmond, Virginia.
