PLANS FOR BIGGER AND BETTER SUMMER SCHOOL

Detailed plans for the fifty-fourth session of the Harvard Summer School have been announced by Professor John Tucker Murray '99, Director of the Summer School of Arts and Sciences. The school will open July 7, a week later than last year, and will extend until August 16. The courses in the summer school are the full equivalent of the University "half-course" of the academic year, to which they strictly correspond in standard. Courses taken may be counted towards the degrees of A. B., A. A., and S. B.

Among the important changes announced this year, three courses in English, two in French, two in Spanish and one each in German and Latin have been added to the list of studies which candidates for the degree of A. M. may take.

Since the summer school courses are intended principally to provide University instruction for teachers, and are intensive five week periods of concentration, students enrolling in the Summer School are advised to take only one course in order to get the most effective results.

As in previous years, undergraduates taking courses in the Summer School will receive the same degree of credit towards a degree as during the academic year. Men in the University who desire to take more than one course, however, must have an average of 'B' or better during the previous academic year. Undergraduates not having such a record will not receive credit for more than one course.

Largest Faculty In History

The faculty of the Summer School will number considerably over a hundred men, and is larger this year than ever before. About one third of the instructors are from other colleges. Among the Harvard instructors, Dr. Derric Choate Parmenter '13, takes the place of Professor Roger Irving Lee '02, who has recently resigned to resume medical practice in Boston.

Professor Raymond MacDonald Alden G. '96 from the University of California heads the list of visiting instructors. Professor MacDonald is the author of numerous books on the study of English literature and is a frequent contributor to educational journals. In 1905 he won a prize in "Collier's" short story contest. Among other prominent visiting instructors are Walter Van Dyke Bingham, Professor of Psychology at Carnegle Institute of Technology; Charles Wendell David, G. '18, Associate Professor of History at Bryn Mawr College; Harlan Cameron Hines, Professor of Education at the University of California, and Arthur Stanley Pease, Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois.

Copeland Will Resume Activities

The announcement that Associate Professor C. T. Copeland '82 will give his course on the History of English Literature in the Nineteenth Century will occasion much interest. Professor Copeland has been on sabatical leave during the past year, and will resume teaching for the first time in the course.

The two Demonstration Courses, begun last year Proved very successful, and three more have been added. These classes are composed of children from the seventh to the twelfth grades, summer school students having the privilege of enrolling for observation. These demonstration courses may be taken in addition to a full programme, but they do not count towards a degree.

The Summer School class in Geology will shift their location to the Canadian Rockles this summer, beginning their fieldwork at Banff, Alberta, Canada. Full information about this course, which is conducted through a gift of R. W. Sayles '01, may be had from Professor Percy E. Raymond at the Museum of Comparative Zoology.

Students in the Summer School who desire to live near the University are quartered in the Freshman dormitories. Gore and Standish being reserved for women, and Smith Halls for men. Board is supplied in each of these dormitories at a nominal rate. Applications for the rooms will be filled in the order they are received.

The tuition fees for each course varies from $10 to $50, and average about $20. Students who are enrolled for a single course may obtain an Auditor's Ticket upon payment of $10, which entitles them to attend lectures in any other course.

Although admission to the summer school is open to both men and women, the number is about equal, figures for last year showing 51 per cent of the enrollment being women. This is unusual in a Summer School according to Professor Murray, who declared that in the majority of summer schools, the women were in the great majority.

A series of diversions has been arranged this year for students in the summer school, consisting of historical and industrial excursions around Boston. Professor Copeland will give a course of evening lectures and Readings in New Lecture Hall. In addition lectures by other prominent men will be arranged as often as is feasible. Widener library and Appleton Chapel will be open to students in the Summer School. The tennis courts and one of the University boat houses also will be kept open for use.

Further information regarding the summer session may be had on application to the Secretary of the Summer School in 1 University Hall.