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Summer School Supplement
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Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
Section 2
Lincoln, Nebraska
Friday, April 18, 1941
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Educators Curriculum Music course
solve problems offers variety will be offered
in workshop of subjects on city campus
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School administrators,
teachers to work out
individual difficulties
A workshop in which school ad
ministrators and teachers may
work on their own professional
problems will be conducted from
June 9 to Aug. 1 as part of the
university's 1941 summer school.
Dr. Frank E. Sorenson of
teachers college has been ap
pointed co-ordinator of the work
shop program by Prof. R. D.
Moritz, dean of the summer school.
Individually or in small groups,
workshop participants will work
on problems they have encountered
during the school year in such
fields as vocational training, cur
riculum revision, improved meth
ods of evaluation, securing of more
adequate guidance records, and
special teaching programs con
cerning such subjects as reading,
health and modern problems.
Arrangement of course.
"Participants may send all their
time in the workshop and earn
nine hours of college credit, or
they may spend only two-thirds of
their time in the workshop and
register for one of the regular
university courses," explains Dr.
Sorenson. "Insofar as possible,
all materials produced will be
mimeographed and distributed to
interested educators throughout
the state."
Nebraska school teachers who
take advantage of the workshop
will be aided by a special consult
(See WORKSHOP, page 3.)
With regular admission require
ments and a curriculum offering
courses equivalent in method,
character and credit values to
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R. D. MORITZ
. . . summer school director.
those given during the regular
school year, the University of Ne
braska summer school sessions
will begin June 9.
As in former years, the sum
mer school has been organized in
a short and a long session, run
ning concurrently. The short ses
sion closes July 16 and the long
session ends Aug. 1.
Sessions are based on a desire
to make the summer school serve
(Ccc SCHOOL, page 2.)
H. i i l.i. Vamos a Sudamenca!
ich school students are c . o .
That, translated trom Spanish, means "Let s go to South Amer-
eligible for instruction ica!" and that is just exactly what members of the South American
in orchestra, band, theor
The university department of
music again will offer the all-state
music course for high school stu
dents from June 11 to July 2 on
the Lincoln campus. Courses of in
struction will be offered during the
three weeks in orchestra, chorus,
band, music theory and apprecia
tion. Private lessons will be of
fered in piano, violin, organ, cello,
voice, harp, brass and percussion,
and woodwinds.
Each student will participate in
two of the three musical organiza
tions as well as classes in appreci
ation and theory and private les
sons. Membership in the course is
open to all high school students
including those who will graduate
in 1941.
Parties, sports part of program.
Parties, sports and a complete
social and recreational program
will be directed by David Foltz,
supervisor of choral music in the
Mout Carroll, 111., schools, and
Miss Constance Cruickshank, chor
al supervisor in Alliance. All uni
versity facilities will be open to
the students swimming pool in
thhe coliseum, tennis courts, and
the air-conditioned Union with its
opportunities for reading, ping
pong, coking, and dancing. Thus
vacation pleasure will be com
bined with the best musical training.
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A fee of $35 covers all expenses
(See MUSIC, page 4.)
HELEN M. HOSP.
. . to lead tour.
tour, being sponsored this summer from June 28 to August 25 by the
university as a part of the regular university's summer session, will do.
The tour, open to everyone, is being sponsored by the university
(See TOUR, page 4.)
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Nerve center of
the university dur
ing all sessions is
the administration
building. Centrally
located on the cam
puc, it houses the
offices of the Chan
c e 1 1 o r, Registrar,
Ccan of Student
Affairs, University
Purchasing Agent
and other adminis
trative departments.
The building also
ho'jces the univer
sity editorial and
publicity depart
ments. Through de
partments h o u s ed
here all credits and
srade records are
permanently filed,
and news of univer
sity events is re
leased to the news
papers of the state.
Reading clinic
conference
set for July
'Progress and plans in a com
paratively new educational field, a
program for reading problems, will
be discussed by Nebraska educa
tors at a summer school reading
conference July 7, 8 and 9, Dr.
D. A. Worcester, chairman of the
department of educational psychol
ogy ana measurement, has an
nounced. Altho detailed plans for the con
ference are now tentative, D;
Worcester has announced that
Prof. W. S. Gray of the University
of Chicago, well known in reading
work, will be the principal speak
er of the three day meeting. He
will talk on the first day.
Consider all levels.
The reading problems that oc
cur in all levels, elementary, sec
ondary and college, and what can
be done in the way of prevention
and combat will be dealt with. In
addition, attention will be given to
a program of promoting reading
possibilities of students who have
no visible difficulties but who can
improve their reading habits.
Also being prepared is an ex
tensive exhibit of reading mate
rials including tests, question?
naires and other literature used in
the reading laboratories of the
university.
(See CLINIC, page 3.)