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SUMMER SCHOOL TO GIVE 175 COURSES

Special 12 Week Field Trip in Europe Projected by Mather--Wide Range of Studies Offered

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A stan of 118 professors from Harvard and other universities of America and Europe will offer a total of more than 175 courses in the 1928 Harvard Summer School. P.P. Chase '99 is in charge of this year's session, which will last for six weeks from July 2 to August 11.

Among the courses offered there are a large number which are either entirely new or resumed after a period of discontinuance.

Sir John Adams of the University of London will present two courses in education, "Comparative Education" and "The Philosophical Bases of Education," which will offer an opportunity for the study of education as presented in other countries. Courses in American history, entitled "The West in American Politics since 1865" and "New Points of View in American History" will be presented by S.J. Buck, visiting professor from the University of Minnesota. Professor M.Y. Hughes of the University of California is giving courses on "English Literature in the Sixteenth Century" and "Anglo-Saxon." Professor W.R. Mackenzie of Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, will lecture on "Shakespeare" and "English Drama from Sheridan to Shaw."

Astronomy Research Planned

A great many Harvard professors are presenting new courses this summer. Among these new offerings there are courses on research work in astronomy by W.J. Fisher, present research associate of the Astronomical laboratory; "Public Speaking and Dramatic Interpretation," by Assistant Professor F.C. Packard '20; "Abnormal Psychology," by Dr. H.A. Murray; "Human Ideals: Their Conflict and Integration in Society," by Dr. P.J.W. Pigors '24; "The History of Latin," by Assistant Professor Joshua Whatmough; "Greek History," by Professor W.S. Ferguson (first three weeks) and Assistant Professor R.P. Blake (last three weeks); "The Old Testament" and "The New Testament," by Professor Kirsopp Lake.

Other courses being presented by visiting professors are "English History since 1688" and "The Expansion of Europe," by Professor R.G. Albion of Princeton; "Social Problems and Social Policy," by Professor G.W. Allport '19 of Dartmouth; "Money in Banking" and "Corporations," by Professor M.M. Bober, of Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin; "German Composition and Conversation," by Professor A.W. Boesche of Cornell; "Principals of Educational Psychology," by Professor Laurence Carmichael of Brown; "Chancer" and "American Literature in the Nineteenth Century," by Professor E.D. Snyder of Haverford; "Musical Appreciation" and "Romantic Period in Music," by Professor R.D. Welch of Smith. "Relations of China and Japan with Western States," by C.W. Young of Leiden University, Leiden, Holland.

Besides these regular courses in Cambridge there is to be a special 12 weeks field course which will offer an opportunity to selected students to study the geology, physiography and archaeology of selected regions in France, Switzerland, Italy, and Spain during the summer. The course is conducted by Professor K.F. Mather in accordance with the terms of the gift of R.W. Sayles '01, which makes it possible.

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