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AMONG University Extension agencies the Summer School plays an increasingly important part. This year eleven universities and university colleges in Great Britain were responsible for at least fifteen summer schools, not counting those organised by joint committees for tutorial classes in connexion with the Workers' Educational Association. In the United States, summer courses are provided in numbers and on a scale far in excess of anything that has been attempted elsewhere. The Bureau of Education, Washington, has published a Bulletin on the subject (1922, No. 31) in which are shown the student enrolments in last year's summer schools of the twenty-seven universities “and colleges which sent representatives to the meeting of the Association of Summer School Directors. The largest were: Columbia 11,809, Chicago 6458, California 6176, Wisconsin 4547. Fourteen other institutions had enrolments exceeding 1000 each. On the other hand, many of the best known, including Yale, Princeton, Vassar, and Brown, do not receive summer students: Yale experimented with the system for three years and then gave it up. Some of the most conservative colleges, while not undertaking summer schools of the ordinary type, have opened their doors in the summer for conferences arid for special classes designed to establish contact with industrial workers. Many hesitate, as do universities in this country, to increase their commitments in this direction for fear of financial difficulties. State universities regard the matter in a different light, and find that this and other forms of extension work help to justify in the eyes of the taxpayers their large demands on the public purse. In general the courses are devoted principally to the liberal arts and sciences and to education, but some schools of law, medicine and dentistry offer courses which count for their degrees, and in a few institutions engineering and architecture courses are provided.
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University and Educational Intelligence. Nature 111, 33–34 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111033a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/111033a0