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BULLETIN 
OF THE 

UNIVERSITY of TEXAS 

Number 28:l. 
P11blishe(l four times a mouth 
By the University of Texas 
At Anstin, Texas. 

Press Series 36. J nly 1, mu. 
Entered at Austin, Texas, as sec­ond-class matter, under Act of Con­gress of July 6, 1894. 
The press is indted to make free use of these items with or without giving eredit therefor. 
AN AID TO 	TEXAS CITIES .AJ.""f D 'rC}WNS. 
A bnrf'm1 of l\hmieipal J:psearch and Heference has been established at the University of Texas. This bnreau will be under the directorship of Prof. Hernmn G. James, who teaches the courses in Municipal Government at the 17nhersity of Texas. The h11reail is intended primarily as an aid to the citieB of the State in solving their local municipal problems. The " ·ork of the bureau will consist in the collection of information on all matters of local concern, not only from cities in this State and country but from leading municipalities abroad also, which in­formation will then be a\·aiJable for the authorities of any city in the State. For example, if a city wants to undcrtal,;e pa;dng, the unrean will have information aYailable with reg-arcl to the relathe co~t, durability, and gen­eral effieiencv of Yarious kinds of pavements. T'he bureau will have data with n•ganl to all the different 1le­partments of municipal gon•rnment. Jn i-hort. the bureau will lw a clear­ing house of information on m1mic·ipal concerns of whatever nat11n' open for the asking to all muuieipalitks of the State. 
\Vhat an a<lnmtage this will he to the cities of Texas is imm.ediately ap­parent, for while they now gTope largely in the dark on many of these questions, or are eompe11ed to ask information of a large number of dif­ferent sources, the bureau will furnish 
a. central organ of experience and in­formation from which each city can draw what it needs with a rnin.imum expendit1ire of time and energ·y. 
The University of Texas 1~10rary nas seventy-six thousand catalogne<I Yol­umes. Its reacling· room has a capaci­ty for two lrnnclred students working at the same time. Due to the rapi<l increase of enrollment it has been found J1ecesary to order fiftv adcli­tioual chairs, for m.any timesv during the past session students were nnab1c to secnre plaees in the reacliug room due to its congested condition. 
H.ural School Education Week will be held at the University of Texas during the week beginning July 14th. This week is set aside for the special attention of all persons interested in the developm.ent of rural education in Texas. It is the desire that the super­intendents, trustees, teachers, and pa­trons of rural schools throughout the State should attend, and by means of mutual discussion and hearing of tht­opinions of the experts who have been gathered together for this purpose that the rural schools in the various communities should better thereby. Several series of lectures, conferences, and round tables. all of which will be devoted to the investigation and dis­cussion of problems related to rural schools will be held. Mr. 0. J. Kern, Supt. Winnebago County, Ill., will de­liver three series of lectures. State Supt. P. M. Bralley and Prof. W. S. Sutton, Dean of the Department of Education of the University, will have charge of the round tables. Supt. J. i~·. Kimball of Temple, who is also presi­dent of the State Teachers' Associa­tion, and Supt. S. M. N. Marrs of Ter­1·ell, County Superintendents T. C. Wil­liams of Haskell County and J. S. Morgan of Bell County ; Prof. S. C. Wilson of Sam Houston Normal, and Messrs. T. H. Shelby and E. V. White of the State Department of Education, as well as other experienced, well-in­formed school men in Texas. will con­tribute to the program of the Week. In order that county superintendents and other visitors may be ~onvenient­ly located it has been arranged so that they may have rooms at the Uni­versity Hall and meals at the Cafe­teria. Both of these places are on the campus and are near the hall 
where the lectures will be given. 
The 1912-13 catalogue of the Univer­sity of Texas, including the Medical Department, has just been issued from the press. It is an imposing volume of five hundred and fifty-four pages. This constitutes the most imposing catalogue that has even been issued by the University. The catalogue gives all the rules and regulations of the University, and the various courses 1n the different departments and schools are careully outlined. Copies of the catalogue may be obtained by address­ing the Registrar, University, Austin, Texas. 
Four deserving Texas girls with the desire to go to the Univendty of Texas will have that desire fulfilled through the awarding of four s<'holarships se• cured by Hon. Cullen F. Thomas of Dallas. The selection was made by a committee composed of Mrs. Helen :M. Kirby, Dean of Women; Prof. E. C. Darker, and Secretary John A. Lomax of the University. The scholarships were awarded to Misses Lota Smith, 'Veatherford; Olive Swenson, Smith­Yille ; Fannie H. Daniels, Austin, and Braddie Garner, Del Rio. These young women will enter the University next session. The committee have another scholarship to award to same deserv­ing boy who, without help, could not attend the University. 
GJ:OUP STCDY :FOR THE l'EOPLE. 
The Department of Extension of the University of Texas has just entere(l upon a new phase of work in the di­vision of correspondence instruction. This new field of work will be known as gToup study courses. This plan originated at the University of Texas, and it is the only university in the country giving similar opportunities to groups gathered together for study. The plan contemplated is to offer to various groups of persons under the direction of a university profes~;or or lecturer certain definite programs for 
a. year's reading or study. The pri­1nary object of these courses will be to give instruction rather than enter­tainment, although this feature will not be neglected. Each group will have a leader who is to conduct the cvrrespondence with the lecturer, and all questions or difficulties that may arjse during the course may be cleared up by correspondence with the univer­;.;ity professor. In addition to a sylla­bus and program the University Ex­tension Department will send out a small traveling library of general ref­erence books on each of the topics. 'J'his library will be loaned to the clnb free during the entire progTess of the course. At some time during the progress of the eourse the university professor will visit the group and give one or two lectures as conditions may ·warrant. The nature of these lec­tures will be determined by the char­acter of the topics and by·the wishes of the local group and the lecturer. Usually there will be one lecturer fo the group alone and one to the group aucl their invited friends or to the general public, as the circumstances may warrant. In case of the public lt>cture, if the group desires to make a small admission charge to cover the Px:penses of the course, the University will :-t•nd out posters, newspaper write­ups, tickets, etc., for local advertising purposes. The work of these courses i;.; internlccl for all sorts of literary, debating, mothers' clubs, high scho;Jl faculties, teachers' clubs, young peo­ple's :-oeieties. Y. ~[. C. A.'s, organiza­tions of business men, commercial clubs, civic clubs, labor unions, farm­t'rs' institute~, and the like. Any group of not less than five persons may form a club and select a leader in order to 111ake application for one of these group study conrses. A fee of $30 is <'harg·ed for the course, but the Uni­n•rsi'ty will pay the tra~'eling expenseH to tlw lectnrer, provide the traveling Iibrary. and prepare aclYertising ma­tt>rial for the public lecture. A fee of $;i win he charged for an outlined program alone, and $10 for the pro­gram_ and the traveling library. How­t:·Yer. in almost every case it will be 1111wh more desirable for the club to ineh!de the leeturer feature in these 
Tlw Board of Ht'ge11ts of the Uni­Yersit\· of Texas at a recent meeting· JffoYhled for the rendering of a large!· assistance to the high schools of the State. ·within the last five years the s11bj1~ds of manual training, domestic eco11omy, and agriculture have been placed in nmny hig·h schools. The greatest impediment to the cle,·elop­ment of the vocational subjects has been the dearth of properly trained tt•achers. The Board of Hege11ts be­lieYl'S that a distinct service is demand­ed in the better preparation of teach­ers for Yocational subjects, and is aid­ing the schools in <leYe1oping suitable courses in these sn bjeets. \Vith this objt•ct in view, provisions haYe been mack for the employrne11t of high school Yisitors who ·will give special attention to the clen:>lopment of these sen•1-:1l subjects. The position of Vis­itor of Sehools in l\Iannal Training has been filled by the selection of ~\lr. 0. ~\. Ilmrnze11. who has se1Tecl as n1an11al training tt~acher and director in the citv schools of both Austin and Dallas. .\Ii:. Hanszen is thoro11g·hly qnalitied to 
rendt'r a great st:>rvicc to the schools of the State. The Unfrersitv accredits 1na1111al training, cl01nestie~ economy, and agriculturre for admission to the areshman cla·ss. Twelve other col­leges in Texas have indicated their intention to llSe the list of accredited schools prE'pared by the State Unher­sH.v. 
Dr. 'J'. IL Samp:-:on, Presi<knt of the Au:-:tin l'resbvterian Theological Semi­nary, amwuu'ces that as a i:estllt of an inYestigation conduete<l l>y him as to the uumher of graclnates of the U ni­Yersit.'· of Texas who are eugage<l j 11 the millistrv, that there are thirty-two engaged in"' acthe work in the· mill­istr_v, the Presbyterians leading with th irtI:'en : the Methodists, ten ; Episco­pals, fiTe: and the Baptists, four. De. Sampson has not completed his inYes­tigation as to the otlwr 1lenorni11a­tions, and the number as given flOl'S not include quite a number of former students of the Unhesit'' who are not recipients of degrees. 
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Dr. \Yingo \Villiams of Fort \Vorth. who had only been graduate<l from_the University of Texas Medical Uepart­n1ent three weeks, died recentlv from scarlet fever, which he contra~ted in the Philadelphia Municipal Hospital for contagious diseases. Dr. \Yilliams went directly to the hospital upon his graduation from the Unhersitv. Ile was sen·ing as an interne in ti1e hos­pital where he died. The young cloe­tor died while doing his duty. He was one of the most promh;ing of the re­cent grad nates of the ~fedical Depart­ment. 
g1onp studs courses. The topics al­r <:'a<lv announced afford a wide variety of s\1bjects and are announced in a recent bulletin. If any group is in­tere~ted in any topic not mentioned iu th<' list given in the bulletin, the De­partment will be glnc1 to correspond 
,,-ith them in regar~l to finding a karkr and prep1ri11g a program and a traveling library :for such a topic. For the bulletin or anv informatim1 on any of the topics, clubs or indi­viduals should write to Dr. L. W. Payne, .Tr., head of the Correspondence Division, Departn1ent of Extension, University of Texas. The bulletin will be sent upon request. 
The Unin'rsity of Texas Extension ])epartment will have a director of In­terscholastic Athletics and Debating. A .•T. Robinson. a former student of the University, will enter upon the position at the beginning of the com· ing session. "\fr. J~obinson has taught and coached in different high schools and academies throughout the State; he is an experienced coach and player i,1 a large n11mber of athletic activi­ties. His <lutv will be to visit the high schools 'and academies of the t;tate and assist them in the organiza­tion of proper athletics and in the :formation of debating and oratorical districts. He will conduct all dis­trict contests in debating, oratory, nncl track. This office was creat­('d through the enormous interest manifested by the intermediate schools of the State in athletic sport and oratory. At the spring interscholastic track meet recently held at the University of Texas at Aus­tin over four hundred high school an<l academy students were present, two hundred and forty being on the field at one time, thus marking it as the largest athletic meet ever helcl on a field in the South. Not onlv were the city schools 'vell represented', but many small towns were represented by cap­able teams who made an admirable showing in the meet. 
Heqnests have been sent ont to superintendents of public schools in the State for names of deserving boys 'vho desire a chance to g·o to the Uni­Yersitv of Texas for one vear. It .is hoped~ that the most deser;'ing boy in the State can be found in order that he may be awerded the $250 scholar­ship awarded by Hon. Cullen Ji'. Thomas of Dallas. The award will be made to some boy who by no othPr means could gain a University educa­tion.