THE SUMMER SESSION

Last summer, in addition to the usual array of elementary college courses,, the College made available for its graduates and for the graduates of other institutions, a variety of courses of instruction of advanced grade, given by teachers of high standing. The gratifying response to this move has led to a further extension of the policy. The bulletin of the session of 1913, recently issued by the Director, Professor Walter Van Dyke Bingham, contains announcements which will be of interest to alumni who are engaged in teaching, or who, in the capacity of principals, supervisors, and college professors, come in touch with teachers and students who may wish to put to a profitable use a portion of the long vacation. Advanced students, who wish to pursue studies leading to the Master's degree, may arrange to complete the requirements in a minimum of four summers of residence at Dartmouth.

The advanced courses in Mathematics may be mentioned as illustrative. In addition to the usual undergraduate courses in Analytic Geometry and Differential and Integral Calculus, courses will be given by Professor J. W. Young and Professor E. G. Bill in Modern Analytic Geometry, Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable, and Advanced Aspects of Elementary Algebra. Such summer opportunities are not paralleled in New England.

The College is especially fortunate this year in being able to announce courses in English by Professor Curtis Hidden Page, Dr. William E. Bohn, and Professor Robert A. Jelliffe. Professor Jelliffe, of Oberlin College, will teach a course in Shakespeare, and another in English Composition. Professor Page will lecture upon American Poetry. Dr. Bohn, who is at the head of the English department in the Ethical Culture School, will lecture upon American Prose Writers, and will also give a new course in Contemporary English and American Drama.

Contemporary drama is to receive attention in the French department also, where Professor Skinner will take a class of advanced students through the characteristic plays of Rostand, Hervieu, Brieux, and Bernstein. sor E. F. Langley, formerly of Dartmouth, and now head of the French department in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will return to the summer session to give instruction in French. The German courses will be given by Mr. Neef.

The courses in Physics and Chemistry will be in charge of Professor Proctor, Mr. Phelps, Professor Bolser, and Professor Richardson. The only new course in these departments is a course in the teaching of Physics and Chemistry, to be given jointly by Professor Richardson and Professor Proctor. Several advanced students are making chemistry their major subject for the Master's degree, and are specializing under the direction of Professor Bolser in the field of organic chemistry.

The Botany work will be given this cummer by Professor H. D. Densmore of Beloit College Professor R. H. Stetson comes from Oberlin College to teach Psychology. The instruction in SociolS includes a course by Professor Woods in Poverty and Crime, and also a new course in Rural Sociology in which the new country life movement will be studied with special reference to conditions in the region around Hanover. The two History courses, under Professor Lingley, will both deal intensively with special periods in American history.

Dr. "Meleney, of the New York City Board of Superintendence, returns again to lecture in the field of Education. "Educational Organization and Administration" is the title of a new advanced course he is preparing for school superintendents. Superintendent Shiels, also a member of the New York City system, will give the History of Education, and a course in School Management.

New courses in Music will be in charge of Professor Henry Dike Sleeper, who is the head of the large Music department at Smith College. Professor Alfred M. Brooks, head "of the Fine Arts department in Indiana University, will give instruction in the history and principles of painting. Courses of this type are regular features of instruction at Dartmouth during the academic year, but have not before been available in the summer session. Entirely without such precedent is a course entitled "The School Festival. This innovation has come in response to a need felt by teachers and playground workers for an adequate grounding in the fundamental educational principles of the festival movement, since festivals and small pageants have now assumed an important place in the life of many schools. The new course will aim to make clear the bearing of festival activities upon the various aspects of the regular school work. Instruction will be in charge of Miss Alary. Porter Beegle, Director of Physical Training in Barnard College, and Dr. William E. Bohn, of the Ethical Culture School, where, during the past ten years, this festival movement has had its most elaborate development. Dr. Bohn will lecture on the social and educational significance of festival work, and the meanings of the various days which we celebrate. He will also lecture on sources of literary materials and the construction of festivals. Miss Beegle will deal with the history of the festival and especially of the dance drama, and with the actual organization and performance of festivals; and in the related courses will give practical training in festival dancing.

The incidental features of the summer session will, as usual, include frequent public lectures, entertainments, and concerts, as well as informal social gatherings in College Hall, Saturday excursions, and camp-fire suppers. Special interest attaches to the musical opportunities provided for this summer; and to the Coburn Players, who will be seen in outdoor performances of HenryV., The Taming of the Shrew, and the Iphigenia of Euripides.

Wheeler, South Fayerweather, and Richardson Halls are the dormitories that will be available for the use of women students. The men ordinarily find quarters in the village; but those who desire to do so will have Opportunity this summer to room in New Hampshire Hall. The College Commons will be open for the first time during the summer session, and will furnish regular board at a weekly rate of $6.00.

It is perhaps hazardous to make longdistance predictions; but early indications point toward a somewhat larger attendance than in any previous year.