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CHEMISTRY.

Professor Bird.

Instruction in Chemistry is offered to high school teachers and
such others as are indicated below. The ample facilities of the School
of Chemistry of the University are available and its laboratory and
library will be used.

1. General Chemistry for High School Teachers.—This course
is designed to meet the individual needs of those who may have to
give instruction in chemistry in high schools. It is essentially a coach
class. A daily discussion of the elementary principles of the science
will be held and simple lecture-table demonstrations made. Two
hours a day will then be devoted to such laboratory instruction as will
best fit the case of each member of the class. The sole object is to
train each member to do the work that is before him, the situation that

confronts each one being considered by himself. He will be told what
he had best teach, what apparatus and chemicals to buy and their
cost, how to equip his laboratory and how to make the best use
generally of the facilities he is going to have. It is planned to have
the teacher perform, under the eye of the instructor, all experiments
that his own pupils should perform and such demonstration experiments
as seem desirable. Special attention will be given to the
fitting up of apparatus at a nominal cost, and the apparatus thus assembled
may be taken away for future use. The essential pedagogic
points of the experiments will be discussed fully and an effort made to
show the teacher how to instill life into the laboratory work of the
pupil, by pointing out its practical bearing. The chief emphasis will
be laid upon the essential phenomena and laws of matter changes—
especially those of daily occurrence.

Daily, 8:30 to 9:30. West Range Laboratory.

2. Laboratory Course.—The facilities of the laboratory and library
are offered to those who wish to do special work in General or
Analytical Chemistry. The instruction in this course will be such as
will meet the needs of:

(a) One who desires experience in the analytical methods used
in a particular industrial line he may seek to enter;

(b) Of one who contemplates taking a civil service examination
in chemistry and wishes additional laboratory instruction; and

(c) Of one who needs additional laboratory experience in order
to meet the entrance requirements of professional schools.

Daily. Hours to be arranged. West Range Laboratory.