Almost two thousand men and women of Greater Boston will begin this week to take advantage of the afternoon and evening courses offered by the Commission of Extension Courses. A few of the courses are already being organized while the others will be started this week or, at the latest, in the first week of October, to last until May, 1922.

The University Extension Courses are each year becoming more and more popular. A registration of 1776 last year exceeded the previous high total by over two hundred, and in this year of large registrations, the authorities are expecting a total not very far from two thousand.

The University Extension Courses are offered by the Commission on Extension Courses of which Dean J. H. Ropes '89 of the University is Chairman, and of which President J. A. Cousens of Tufts, President William Devlin of Boston College, President Henry Lefavour of Simmons College, President L.. H. Murlin of Boston University, President E. F. Nichols of M. I. T., President E. F. Pendleton of Wellesley, and others are members.

Twenty-three men will be on the Teaching Staff this year; of these fifteen are members of the Faculty of University. Prominent among these are Associate Professor C. T. Copeland '82, Professor A. N. Holcombe '06, Dean H. W. Holmes '03, Professor B. S. Hurlbut '87, Assistant Professor L. J. A. Mercier, Professor W. B. Munro '99, Professor W. J. V. Osterhout, and Professor G. H. Parker '87,, Professor Dallas Lore Sharp of Boston University, known for his articles on Education in the Atlantic Monthly, and Professor John Paten Marshall of Boston University, well known as a critic of music, are also on the staff.

In past years Professor Copeland's courses, usually on Johnson, have proved the most popular of the Extension Courses. This year Professor Copeland will give a course on "Nineteenth Century English Literature." Attention will be centered on the great figures in the Romantic Period. Another popular course is the one on Advanced English Composition offered by Professor Sharp. The course is intended for professional writers: reporters, editors, authors and lecturers. All manuscripts are submitted to some editor for publication. More than one hundred stories and essays and poems were accepted by various magazines from members of the class during the past year; several books also were published.

English Courses Most Popular

The English Courses have always been the most popular offered in Extension Work with over a hundred men enrolled in almost all the courses offered. But Professor Marshall's course on Analysis and Appreciation of Music, offered again this year, is expected to have over a hundred registered. Among the new courses offered this year is a course on "Swift and His Times", conducted by Professor Hurlbut and one on "American Government and Politics," to be conducted jointly by Professor Munro. This course, sure to be among the most valuable in the curriculum, will include a survey of American history with special emphasis on the period since the Civil War and an investigation of the principles and practice of constitutional government. Special attention will be devoted to municipal problems and the activities and influence of political parties.

The courses are to be given in various places in Boston and Cambridge, a majority, of them at Boston University.

The courses of the Commission will carry credit toward the degree of Associate in Arts at the University, Radcliffe, Tufts, and Wellesley. For this degree work is required amounting to seventeen full courses.

Supported by Lowell Inst. Endowment

Most of the courses are supported from the endowment of the Lowell Institute. By the provisions of the founder of the Extension Courses, the price of a course was to be equivalent to the cost of two bushels of wheat. As a result the Commission has set a fixed rate of $2.50 for a course running half a year and $5.00 for a course continuing throughout the whole year. Fees for those courses not supported by the endowment fund are slightly higher.