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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...shorter course would be advantageous to the students. - (a) The average age of graduation has now risen too high. - (b) Opportunity to save a year would be welcomed by many men. - (1) Preparing for professions. - (2) Possessing little means. - (3) Intending to enter business career. - (c) Other men might take regular four years course or enter graduate school. - (1) More serious work can be done there...
Pedagogical Seminary. A High School Course in English in Correlation with Other Subjects. Mr. G. J. Smith. Sever...
...years a decided reaction set in. In 1826 a new law was passed that decreed that every town of more than 4,000 inhabitants should support a first grade high school, and that all towns of more than 400 householders should support a second grade high school, the difference between these schools being that in the schools of the first grade Latin and Greek were taught, while in those of the second grade they were not. The law of 1826 is practically the law today, although the state legislature has since been very vacillating...
...Hill then dwelt for a time upon the more technical of the two high schools, and he ended by showing the apparent injustice of the system. For while the people of the large towns may obtain the best school education for their children, the parents in the smaller towns must be content with a secondary education. He stated that there were two feasible remedies for this objection: first, every parent or legal guardian should have a right to claim a first grade high school for their children; second, let there be but one statutory high school, with certain fixed standards...
...eleventh shoot in the handicap series and a match for the Founder's Cup were shot yesterday afternoon in a high wind and poor light. The scores in the handicap match were: Sargent, 20; DuPont, 19; Dove, 19; Byrd, 18; Sterling, 16, and G. Kinnicutt, 13. The best totals of those who have shot eight times so far are Dupont, 197; Sargent, 185; R. Sterling, 177; Dove, 175, and G. Kinnicutt, 169. The scores in the match for the Founder's Cup were: Sargent, 13; Dove, 10; Sterling, 10; DuPont, 8; Knoblauch, 7, and Byrd...