The courses are arranged on the basis of 30 lessons, each of which is equivalent to one week's work in the regular session at the university. Credit is allowed on the basis of one, two, or three units, depending upon whether the course in regular session comes one, two, or three times per week through the year. A unit means a year-hour, not a semester-hour.

After registration the first two of these lessons are sent to the student who is expected to do the work of the first lesson and send in a report within one week. While this report is being examined by the instructor and returned within the week, the student is expected to prepare the work of the second lesson and report. As these corrected reports are sent back to the students, a new assignment is also sent, thus keeping the student supplied with a new lesson each week and helping to keep the interest alive.

The majority of these courses are taken by teachers, although a fair proportion of the students represent other professions and occupations. Prevailing conditions in North Carolina determine what the student body in correspondence work shall be. There are no large industrial centers in which sufficiently large groups of engi neers, mechanics, salesmen, clerks, etc., can be organized to warrant the expense of supplying an instructor to the group. It is not desirable or feasible to carry on work in such with individuals by correspondence alone. Little or no opportunity has been offered so far by which this work can be carried on through the summer months, because so many of the instructors are away on vacation. This has proven a handicap, and steps are being taken to overcome it.

The work is made self-supporting by fees for the courses. The fee for credit courses is $5; for noncredit courses, $3. An additional registration fee of $2 is also charged the first time a student registers for any course. This registration is permanent so long as the student continues to take the work. Fees are not remitted once the work is begun. No credit courses of junior or senior grade are given as yet, and courses for not over one-fourth the credits required for the A. B. degree can be taken by correspondence study. Sixty yearhours, or 120 semester-hours, is the minimum for graduation. Hence, 15 year-hours or 30 semester-hours may be taken toward a degree through correspondence study.

The officer in charge of this work is a professor in the university, who serves without extra pay. A paid secretary attends to all the clerical work and handles the routine matters. At present this secretary does not have to devote full time to this work, but has other clerical and stenographic duties.

The number of students enrolled is not large, but every year sees a substantial increase in the enrollment. Several students who began

in the correspondence study division have later come to the university and attended the regular session. A few students in the regular session who have been obliged to discontinue regular work in residence have completed it by correspondence study. Through summer school work, correspondence study, and attendance at the regular session, a few students have been able to obtain a degree who otherwise could not have taken the necessary time from their livelihood to give full residence during the four years.

CLUB STUDY COURSES.

During the past year a plan has been devised by which the correspondence study division cooperates with the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs to aid the members of literary departments in planning the year's programs.

The president of the federation, together with a professor from the department of history and the secretary of the correspondence study division, chose Latin America as the general topic of study for the year and worked out in detail topics and programs for the year's study and club discussion.

This program was printed in attractive booklet form under the university's direction and is supplied with a syllabus on Latin America and a textbook for each member, together with a map of the country for club use, to the literary clubs for a $1 fee from each member of those clubs which register. The university undertakes to aid further by furnishing reference books from the college library to individual members in the preparation of club papers or club discussions.

V. LECTURES.

For many years the university has, upon invitation, sent members of its faculty to communities of the State to deliver special lectures and educational addresses. In 1913-14 it extended this work through the Bureau of Extension by organizing a lecture division, through which it might aid schools, Young Men's Christian Associations, women's clubs, and other organizations in obtaining speakers to discuss with them the problems incident to their daily activities and to interest them in the welfare of the State and in the cultivation of the finer things of the spirit.

During the four years members of the faculty have offered annually a total of from 100 to 152 subjects suitable for various organizations. A bulletin has been published annually indicating the character of the lectures, a number of which are illustrated with stereopticon slides.

No fee has been given the instructor delivering the lecture, and no charge has been made for the service except that in every instance

the traveling expenses of the lecturer have been met by the organization securing him. Under no circumstances is the organization permitted to charge admission to the lecture.

In this work, which has met such a generous response that 175 engagements are filled annually in sixty-odd of the 100 counties and an equal number of invitations has had to be declined, the alumni of the university have played an important part. Frequently, in cooperation with a local organization, they provide for a series of three, four, five, or six lectures, look after all the details, meet the expenses incurred, and thereby extend in a most acceptable way the service of the university.

VI. MUNICIPAL REFERENCE.

Gratification of a very high sort is felt by the Bureau of Extension that the general assembly, at its 1915 meeting, provided for the establishment of a Legislative Reference Bureau for the State and appropriated $5,000 annually for its maintenance. The bureau had felt that North Carolina greatly needed the service of such a reference. bureau, and, in so far as it could, had placed since its organization comparative legislative material in the hands of legislators seeking information concerning proposed laws.

While this bureau has been established at the State capital at Raleigh, no provision has been made for a similar bureau for municipalities. Consequently, the division of legislative reference, under the direction of Profs. C. L. Raper and J. G. de R. Hamilton, has been continued as the division of municipal reference. During recent sessions of the general assembly information has been supplied municipalities concerning charters, franchises, taxation, etc., and material from the university library has been loaned. Recently the standard municipal journals of the United States and a number of books on charters, franchises, city planning, commission form of government, playgrounds, municipal ownership of public utilities, etc., have been added to the municipal reference library, and special investigations concerning city school systems, chambers of commerce, markets, etc., have been carried out by various departments of the university. There is a distinct field of service here, and while the organization for supplying it has not been adequately developed, it is the purpose of this division to develop it as rapidly as possible.

VII. EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE.

The extension work of the school of education has been of the most varied sort, and has constantly increased, both in volume and in definiteness of service. The following are some of the ways in which the school has been active in solving the many problems of North Carolina's educational development:

1. With the foundation of the News Letter, the school began the publication of a weekly letter on some specific educational topic as a part of each issue. This plan has been continued, and the total number of letters written by members of the school is, to date, 126. As the News Letter has a circulation of 10,000, the school is able by this means to reach directly the great body of progressive teachers and school officials of the State. These letters have dealt with all sorts of educational topics, including classroom methods, plans for county commencements, attendance, rural and city school supervision, the larger problems of school administration, and have in particular tried to present for the benefit of the teaching profession of the State as a whole any noteworthy advance made in educational work anywhere within its borders. The response which these letters have met with has been most gratifying.

2. It is difficult to give in brief space any idea of the variety of services rendered by the individual members of the school. Calls for addresses on educational topics, at school commencements, rallies, county and city teachers' meetings, before women's clubs and other organizations, have been so numerous that, in spite of the fact that over 200 such addresses have been made by the members of the school in the last three years, many calls have necessarily been refused.

Assistance of a more definite sort has been rendered a considerable number of city school systems. A detailed survey of the WinstonSalem schools is now in progress; the sections dealing with the larger administrative problems, including the form of organization, the plant, the pupils, the teaching and supervisory force, and the finances of the system, are completed and in press. More superficial examinations of a number of systems have been made and recommendations offered, and in most cases adopted, with regard to such outstanding problems as disclosed themselves. Mental examinations of pupils by the Binet and other tests have been conducted in four systems. As a result, special classes have been organized in three of the systems, and in the other, in which a beginning of such work had already been made, it has been enlarged. Interest in the subject of educational measurements has been stimulated, and some 16 of the city superintendents of the State are planning to stress this work during the coming year, the school of education serving as a clearing house, offering guidance and formulating State standards.

During the past year reading circles have been organized and guided in 15 counties of the State, in cooperation with the State department of public instruction. The other institutions of higher education in the State have also shared in this work. Much assistance, both formal and informal, during the last two years has been rendered the supervising officials of the schools of the county in which the university is situated.

All sorts of requests for information and assistance have been received and attended to through correspondence as well as by personal visitation. They have ranged from suggestions for the resurfacing of old blackboards to the criticism of plans for school buildings. Suggestions for debates and commencement addresses have been forwarded to pupils, and inquiries from teachers as to school exhibits, the teaching of particular subjects, the gradation of pupils, books for professional libraries, playground apparatus, and scores of other matters have been answered.

3. Three years ago the teacher's bureau was remodeled along the lines which had already proved successful at various other State universities. The bureau has given its services free of cost, and has made recommendations only when asked by school officials to do so. Even with this limitation, it has often been embarrassed in finding men for the positions about which it has been consulted. The director of the summer school also conducts a bureau for teachers who are in summer attendance but have never been regularly enrolled students of the university.

4. Extension bulletins, written or compiled by the school of education and designed particularly for the teachers of the State, include the following titles: "A Professional Library for Teachers in Secondary Schools," "The Teaching of County Geography," "Measurement of Achievement in the Fundamental Elementary School Subjects."

Portions of the revised bulletin of the State department of public instruction on "Plans for Public Schoolhouses" (1915) were also written by a member of the school. In addition to these publications and to the weekly educational letters mentioned above, the school of education has been able to reach the teachers of the State through the columns of the High School Bulletin, published at the university and edited by the State inspector of high schools.

VIII. GOOD ROADS INSTITUTE.

None of the forces for the State's upbuilding is receiving more general attention at the present time than the building of public roads; and the necessity for having systems of roads, a State system as well as county and township systems, is being realized more and

With this realization the first impulse was to supply funds for building the roads and little thought was given to the proper expenditure of these funds. Large sums of money from bond issues, special taxes, private subscriptions, etc., were yearly expended by counties and townships, with results not commensurate with the expenditure.

The second stage in the State's road development has now been reached, however, and the people are beginning to realize the neces