CORRESPONDENCE-STUDY DEPARTMENT 1. Teaching by Correspondence.— Experience has shown that many subjects can be taught successfully by correspondence. Direction and correction can oftentimes be given as effectively in writing as by word of mouth. Obviously, self-reliance, initiative, perseverance, accuracy, and kindred qualities are peculiarly encouraged and developed by this method of instruction. 2. Purpose and Constituency. This Department of the University Extension Division does not provide a curriculum leading to a degree, but furnishes a list of courses from which the student may choose such as will afford helpful and stimulating study. It aims to offer anyone anywhere the opportunity of securing instruction from specialists. The work appeals, therefore, to the following classes: (1) Students preparing for college; (2) college students who are unable to pursue continuous resident study; (3) grammar and highschool teachers who cannot avail themselves of resident instruction; (4) teachers and others who have had a partial college course and wish to work along some special line; (5) instructors in higher institutions who desire assistance in the advanced study of some subject; (6) professional and business men who wish technical advice; (7) ministers and Bible students who would fit themselves better to use the sacred Scriptures; (8) all who desire a broader knowledge or a more thorough scholarship. 3. Method of Instruction. Each correspondence course is designed to be equivalent to the corresponding residence course, and contains therefore a definite amount of work. A Major (Mj) calls for an amount of work which a student in residence would be expected to accomplish in twelve weeks, reciting five hours per week. A Minor (M) calls for one-half as much work as a Major. The correspondence student has a minimum of twelve and a maximum of fifteen months (or, if extension of time is granted, of twenty-seven months) for completing either a Major or a Minor course. On the other hand it is permissible to finish courses as rapidly as is consistent with good work. Courses are of two kinds, formal and informal. a) The formal course furnishes a systematic and progressive presentation of the subject in a given number of lessons (cf. § 6, 0)). Each lesson contains: (1) full directions for study, including references to the textbooks by chapter and page; (2) necessary suggestions and assistance; (3) questions to test the student's methods of work as well as his understanding of the ground covered. After preparing for recitation the student writes his answers to the questions and mails them to the instructor, together with any difficulties which may have arisen during his study. This recitation paper is promptly corrected and returned. In like manner every lesson is carefully criticised by the instructor and returned, so that each student receives personal guidance and instruction throughout the course. b) The informal course is designed for students who are pursuing studies of an advanced nature. The course is usually arranged between instructor and student to meet the particular needs of the latter. The formal lesson sheet is dispensed with, but the course is carefully outlined by the instructor, and the student is required to present satisfactory evidence that the work is being properly done. This evidence may consist of a number of short papers on special themes, a thesis covering the whole work, or it may partake rather of the nature of ordinary correspondence. Courses are formal when not otherwise indicated. 4. Admission.* a) No preliminary examination or proof of previous work is required of applicants for correspondence courses. Before matriculating or registering a student, however, the University does require certain information called for on the formal application blank, and reserves the right to reject applicants, or to recommend other courses than those chosen, if the data furnished on the blank justify such action. If the applicant is rejected, or the substitution recommended is not accepted by the student, all fees are refunded. The application blank will be supplied upon request. It should, in every case, accompany the fee for a new course. b) A correspondence student whose standing in one of the Colleges or Schools of the University has not been definitely determined is ranked as an Unclassified Student. * If the correspondence student later comes to the University of Chicago, he must comply with the requirements for admission to residence courses. (See Circular of Information of the Colleges, pp. 11 ff.) 5. Recognition for Work. a) A certificate is granted for the satisfactory completion of the recitation work in any Major or Minor course. An average grade of C (60) entitles one to a certificate. b) Admission credit is given for courses covering college-entrance requirements, which are satisfactorily completed and passed by examination. c) Credit toward a Bachelor degree (cf. § 6, b) (1)) is given for courses of a college grade satisfactorily completed and passed by examination. d) If the student has a record of residence work in the University, credits gained through correspondence courses are immediately transferred to that record; if not, they are held in the Correspondence-Study Department until the student secures such a record. e) See also Regulations a), b), and c) below. 6. Regulations. a) The University of Chicago grants no degree for work done wholly in absence. A minimum of nine Majors (one year's work) of residence study at the University of Chicago is required of everyone upon whom any degree is conferred. b) Correspondence courses are accepted as meeting the study requirement for the different degrees as follows: (1) The candidate for a Bachelor degree (A.B., (2) The candidate for the Master's degree (A.M., NOTE.-The University of Chicago's Bachelor degree, or its full equivalent, is prerequisite for admission to candidacy for a Master's or Doctor's degree. If a student presents an inferior Bachelor degree he can make it equal to the University's degree by means of correspondence courses, and thus be free to devote his entire time in residence to graduate work (cf. §6, a)). c) A student may begin a correspondence course at any time in the year. d) A resident undergraduate student must secure the consent of his Dean before registering for a correspondence course. e) A student will be expected to complete any course or courses within one year from the end (i. e., March 23, June 23, September 23, December 23) of the Quarter in which he registers. f) A student who, for any reason, does not report either by lesson or by letter within a period of ninety days, may thereby forfeit his right to further instruction in the course. g) Extension of time will be granted: (1) for a period equal to the length of time which a correspondence student spends in resident study at the University of Chicago, providing due notice is given the Secretary and the instructor both at the beginning and the end of such resident study; (2) for one full year from the date of expiration of the course, if, on account of sickness or other serious disability, the student has been unable to complete the course within the prescribed time (cf. § 6, e)), providing (a) he secures the consent of the Secretary and his instructor, and (b) pays a fee equal to one-fourth of the original tuition fee for the course. Private arrangement for extension of time between the student and his instructor cannot be recognized by the Department. h) In order to secure credit for a correspondence course, the student must pass an examination on it at such time as is most convenient to himself and his instructor, either at the University or, if elsewhere, under supervision which has been approved by the University. i) During an instructor's vacation a substitute will, if possible, be provided. j) The fee for matriculation in the University ($5) is required once, at the time of first registration, of each one who has not matriculated in the institution either as a residence or a correspondence student. The fee is general for the whole University. k) No fee is refunded on account of a student's inability to enter upon or continue a course. 7) The matriculation fee will not be refunded to a student whose application has been accepted (cf. § 4, a)). m) The student must forward with each lesson postage (or, preferably, a stamped, self-directed envelope) for return of same. n) A student will be required to pay for but one Major of a Double Major (DMj) course (e. g., Course 1 in Greek, Latin, French, Plane Geometry, etc.) at a time, unless he applies for both Majors. o) Ordinarily, a Major consists of forty, and a Minor of twenty lessons; but there may be variations from this number in order to accommodate the work to the requirements of a particular course. Each course represents a definite amount of work (cf. § 3)); the number of lessons into which it is divided being incidental. p) A course announced as a Major may not be taken a Minor at a time. g) Each correspondence course is equivalent to the corresponding residence course, and commands credit unless definite statement is made to the contrary (cf. §5). r) All informal courses are Majors except when otherwise indicated. 7. Expenses. a) All fees are payable in advance. b) The matriculation fee is $5 (cf. § 6, j)); the tuition fee for each Minor course is $8; for one Major course, $16. If a student registers at the same time for two Major courses the tuition fee is $30; for three Major courses, $40. No reduction is made for Minor courses taken simultaneously. The tuition fee includes payment for the instruction sheets received. Textbooks which cannot be borrowed (cf. § 10) must be purchased by the student. c) The student is required to inclose postage for the return of the lesson-papers (cf. § 6, m)). d) All money should be sent by draft or money order, not by check, made payable to the UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. 8. Method of Registration (recapitulated). a) File with the Secretary of the Correspondence. Study Department a formal application for each course desired. The required application blank will be furnished upon request (cf. § 4, a)). b) Forward with the formal application the necessary fees: (1) $5 for matriculation, if not matriculated in the University (cf. § 6, j)); (2) $8 for each Minor course, or $16, $30, or $40, according as one, two, or three Major courses are applied for; (3) an additional fee for certain courses in Physics, Chemistry, Zoology, Botany, and Bacteriology. c) A student registering for English Theological Seminary courses will pay $3 for each course taken. 9. Awards. a) THE SCHOLARSHIPS.* Class A. Three Scholarships, each yielding tuition in residence for one Quarter (840), are awarded annually on April 1 to the three students who have begun, satisfactorily completed, and passed by examination the greatest number of Major correspondence courses, but at least three during the preceding twelve months. If two or more persons finish the same number of Majors, the Scholarships are awarded in the order of the dates of the last examinations, beginning with the earliest. Class B.-A Scholarship yielding tuition in residence for one Quarter ($40) is awarded for every four different Major correspondence courses, dated as beginning April 1, 1904, or later, which a student satisfactorily completes and passes by examination. b) HONORABLE MENTION.-The names of those who win Scholarships, and of those who satisfactorily complete and pass by examination three Major correspondence courses- -dated as beginning April 1, 1904, or later-by April 1, of each year, are printed in the Annual Register of the University. c) The Annual Register is sent to each correspondence student whose name appears therein. d) The University Record is sent for one year to every correspondence student who registers for one or more Major courses. If the same student registers again after an interval of twelve months, he is entitled to the University Record for another year. 10. Books, etc. - Textbooks, maps, etc., which are recommended for use in the various courses may be obtained through the University of Chicago Press, Chicago. Estimates and prices will be furnished on application. In exceptional cases some of these books may be borrowed from the University Library. Applications for loans should be addressed to the Librarian of the University of Chicago. 11. Lecture-Study.-Attention is called to the special circular relative to lecture-study work, which may be obtained on application. *The scholarships are good for any Quarter. Two Minors will be considered the equivalent of a Major. English Theological Seminary courses are excluded from competition for the scholarships. THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES AND LABORATORIES* THE LIBRARIES THE LIBRARY STAFF ZELLA ALLEN DIXSON, Associate Librarian. WILLIAM ISAAC THOMAS, Superintendent of Departmental Libraries. JOSEPHINE CHESTER ROBERTSON, Head Cataloguer. CORA BELLE PERRINE, Head of Accession Department. CLARENCE ALMON TORREY, Inspector of Departmental Libraries. FRANK LELAND TOLMAN, Loan Desk Assistant. Ruth Edna Morgan, Second Assistant Cataloguer. LIBRARY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR WILLIAM ISAAC THOMAS, Historical Group. PROFESSOR IRA MAURICE PRICE, Haskell Library. PROFESSOR GEORGE LINCOLN HENDRICKSON, Classical Library. PROFESSOR EDWIN BRANT FROST, Yerkes Observatory Library. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR FREDERIC IVES CARPENTER, Modern Language Libraries. PROFESSOR CLARKE BUTLER WHITTIER, Law School Library. PROFESSOR ELIAKIM HASTINGS MOORE, Mathematics and Astronomy. GENERAL The General Library is for the use of students in all Departments of the University. Students who have matriculated and paid their library fee may take at one time three volumes from the General Library. These may be kept two weeks, and at the end of that time, if desired, may be renewed for two weeks. Former students may continue to use the Library by the payment of the library fee of $2.50 per Quarter. The General Library is temporarily located in the Press building, on the northwest corner of Fifty-eighth Street and Ellis Avenue. The approximate estimate of the books belonging to the Library is 418,826, distributed as follows: Baptist Union Theological Seminary Library, 40,000 volumes; the old University, 10,000; the Edward Olson Library, 5,000 (not yet delivered to the University); Berlin purchase, 175,000; number of volumes in the General Library and Departmental Libraries, April 1, 1905: AUGUSTUS RAYMOND HATTON, Assistant in Historical Library Group. EMMA L. DICKINSON, Assistant in Biological Library. ALBERT SHERWOOD WILSON, Assistant in Haskell Library. ALBERT ELLSWORTH HILL, Assistant in Modern Language Libraries. JOHN DORSEY WOLCOTT, Assistant in Classical Library. STORRS BARROWS BARRETT, Librarian at Yerkes Observatory Library. FREDERICK WILLIAM SCHENK, Librarian in the Law IRENE WARREN, Librarian in the School of Educa- ADVISERS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CHARLES RIBORG MANN, Physics. PROFESSOR ROLLIN D. SALISBURY, Geology and Geography. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR FRANK RATTRAY LILLIE, Biology Library. PROFESSOR JULIUS STIEGLITZ, Chemistry. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SOLOMON HENRY CLARK, Public Speaking. LESTER BARTLETT JONES, Music. PROFESSOR AMos Alonzo StaGG, Physical Culture. STATEMENT * For the Administrative Board of Libraries and Laboratories Astronomy, 803; Biology, 14,367; Chemistry, 2,173; Ellis Hall, 31; English, 8,881; English, German, Romance, 444; General Library, 271,840; Geography and Geology, 5,960; German, 6,294; Greek and Latin, 8,930; Haskell, 13,818: Historical Group, 41,028; History of Art, 1,088; Law School, 24,202; Lexington Hall, 792; Mathematics, 3,351; Music, 217; Pedagogy, School of Education, and Elementary School, 4,696; Physical Culture, 693; Physics, 2,048; Public Speaking, 302; Romance, 4,075; Sanskrit and Comparative Philology, 2,193. Total, 418,826 volumes. The General Library receives 1,359 current periodical publications, including the transactions and proceedings of learned societies. All the Branch and Departmental libraries are catalogued and classified. Most of the collections in the General Library are now permanently arranged. see p. 47. THE KENT CHEMICAL LABORATORY The Chemical Laboratory, provided by the generosity of Mr. Sidney A. Kent, was opened January 1, 1894. The arrangement of the rooms is as follows: The basement contains a furnace-room, with a set of gas furnaces, with air-blast of the most modern construction, for crucible work, muffle work, tube-heating, and other purposes; a constant-temperature room, a room fitted with steam and other appliances for work on a large scale, a mechanical workshop, and storage rooms. On the first floor are one small and two large lecture-rooms, and a large lecture-hall seating three hundred persons, fitted for use as a chemical lecture-room, if desired. This floor also contains a chemical museum, a large private laboratory, a room with northern exposure, especially fitted for use as a gas analysis laboratory, and also apparatus and preparation rooms connected with the lecture rooms. On the second floor are two large laboratories in tended for research and quantitative analysis; three private laboratories for the professors; balance, combustion, and air-furnace rooms; a balcony for out-ofdoor work; and the chemical library, which contains full sets of the most important journals, as well as the most important textbooks and other works, relating to chemistry. On the third floor are three large laboratories for general and analytical chemistry, a storeroom, a preparation room, a room especially fitted for optical and photographic work, a balance-room, and two private laboratories. The most modern system of ventilation has been adopted, air of constant temperature being forced in by fans from below, and withdrawn by a fan above. The building is lighted throughout by electric lights, and the laboratories are provided with electricity adapted to every kind of electro-chemical work. The fullest opportunity will be given for doing research work. All possible aid will be afforded those who desire to avail themselves of the facilities of the laboratory. THE RYERSON PHYSICAL LABORATORY The Ryerson Physical Laboratory was completed January 1, 1894. In the design and construction of this building no element of utility has been omitted, and every effort was made to include all the desirable features of a first-class physical laboratory. All the walls and floors are strong and heavy; the laboratories on the first floor are provided with piers of masonry, in addition to the heavy slate wall-shelves which are found throughout the building. Every laboratory is provided with gas for light or fuel, electricity for light and power, water, compressed air, and vacuum pipes. The first floor is devoted to laboratories for research work, two large constant-temperature rooms, and the mechanician's room, which is fitted up with all the tools and appliances necessary in the construction and repair of physical apparatus. On the second floor are found a large general labora tory for advanced undergraduate work, optical laboratories, a chemical laboratory, a large dark-room, two developing-rooms, and the large lecture-hall with its adjoining apparatus and preparation rooms. The third floor is devoted to a general laboratory for the undergraduate work in general physics, which with its adjoining apparatus and preparation rooms occupies the entire floor of the east wing. On the same floor are found two general laboratories and classrooms. The central part of the fourth floor forms a hall for experiments requiring a large space. The roof above this portion is flat and suitable for observations in the open air. Recent investigations have shown that the location of the Ryerson Laboratory is an exceedingly good one, and that the outside disturbances, which are usually so annoying, are at a minimum. |