Logan Republican | 1903-09-12 | Page 5 | Taught to Read Newspapers

TAUGHT TO READ NEWSPAPERS, New Study Introduced Into the Vassar Curriculum. Vassar girls in futuro are to be taught how to read tho newspapers. A now history class, tho object of which Is to afford opportunity for a liberal knowledgo ot current events and lay a foundation for Intelligent reading of tho newspapers, has been offered this year. Currant nowspapori and periodicals are tho class of text-boo?ts. text-boo?ts. Members aro oxpected to keep themselves posted by dally reading on the subjects under discussion In tho. newspapers, and onco a week o lecturo Is glvon by Prof. Salmon, ol tho history department. As thorough a discussion as Is posslblo of tho important im-portant events, domestic and foreign, ls attempted, and at tho Bamo time all questions Involving political parties and constitutional history aro explained. ex-plained. In addition to this genoral clasB work, each member ls assigned special weekly reading along noma individual in-dividual lino suggustod by national, state or municipal politics or by affairs af-fairs in some foreign state.