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PROBABLY the most interesting account in the first annual report of the Director of Extra-mural Studies to the University of Sheffield is the way in which lecture courses and single 'popular' lectures have been built up. At one time these were given regularly at the University and attracted large audiences. Of recent years few lectures and courses have been given ; but the work of the newly constituted Extra-mural Department during the last session has shown that there is in, and around, Sheffield a large and varied public interested in what the University has to offer. This was strikingly demonstrated when Prof. N. B. Namier delivered the opening lecture of a course on "The Year of Revolutions, 1848". More than two hundred people attended and a further hundred had to be turned away. Another interesting feature of the year's work has been the arranging of three special courses indicating the part an extra-mural department can play in extending the influence of the University in the locality outside its walls. The first was for German prisoners of war in north-east England, the second for graduates of the University and meant to be of a 'refresher' nature, and the third, arranged at the request of the Ministry of Labour, for hospital matrons.
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Extra-mural Activities in Sheffield. Nature 163, 522 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163522c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163522c0