WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION

Evening Star, Issue 19198, 15 March 1926, Page 10

WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION

Further progress is being made in the organisation of the 1926 programme, though many important details remain to bo settled. Circulars giving information about the classes, with enrolment forms attached, will bo distributed among members in due course, but applications for enrolment will be received at the director’s office at the University at any time. It is proposed that'Miss King’s literature class should deal this year particularly with tiie work of James Stephens, George Russell (AE), Tnrgener, Johann Bojer, Rupert Brooke, Jefferies, George Eliot, and Maeterlinck. This would make possible a survey , of some of the more interesting developments in modern literature, extending beyond the writers of England and Ireland to some of the outstanding figures on the Continent ns well.

The subjects selected for Air M'Crackcn’s country classes are as follows :—Kaitangata, ‘Work and Wages in New Zealand’; Balelutha, ‘Social Teaching in Literature’; Alilton men, ‘ Sir George Grey’s Life and Political Ideas’; Alilton women, ’Home Life; Its Value and Meaning.’ Particularly in relation to the Kaitangata subject, Air APCracken’s work is to a large extent original. Every student of this and kindred subjects knows well the great difficulty of getting authoritative and up-to-date books, or even information about them. In many instances no books exist, and it is therefore of particular value to have the raw material worked over and presented in an organised and intelligible form in this way. The Y.W.O.A. class, which meets on Friday afternoons, has selected for its subject this year ‘ Women in Industry.’ Round this general topic it is proposed to group a number of more specialised discussions, introduced by a general historical survey, which will provide a background for the remainmder of the course. It is also hoped that the class will be by a number of specialists ( who in their ordinary work are in direct contact with the'problems, legislative, psychological, and otherwise, which the study of tjie industrial position of women raises.