TABLE 37.—Distribution of Time among Specified Studies in The foregoing table presents in part the results of an inquiry respecting the time assigned to the specified studies in systematized coarses of secondary instruction. The in airy called for the number of hours in a week assigned to each study, the number of weeks in a year, and the number of years in the course. Un account of different interpretations pat upon the inquiry and the different conditions existing where the interpretations were the same, it was impossible to embody all the information elicited in a single tabular scheme. Choice has here been made of answers relating to courses of four or of five years' duration, which are the periods generally comprised in secondary instruction. In selecting the answers for tabulation it was necessary also to distinguish between those that pertained to the work of a class as arranged for a continuous course and those that evidently gave the time devoted by all classes to the several studies or the time occupied by the teachers of those studies. The distinction was indicated by the total number of hours making up the school week. The choice was farther limited to the reports which included the three lines of study embraced in the inquiry, viz, language, mathematics, and physical science. The reports of seventy-five schools accorded with the basis of choice thus determined. Of these nine made equal division of time among the several studies. The relative districation of time for the remainder is shown in Table 37. The total number of hours tabulated was found by multiplying the number of hours assigned to each study in a week by the number of weeks it is pursued in a year, and the number of years in the course, and adding the products. The plan bere described was followed also in the preparation of Table 39, which presents the corresponding information for seventy-one probe high schools. The few departures from the length of the course selected are indicated by foot-notes. TABLE 39.-Distribution of Time among Specified Studies in certain Public High Schools reporting Four Years' Courses. Greek. French. German. Mathematics. Physics. Chemistry. ན ། 。 s」 。 German. 4 46776822 Helena, Ark. al, 611 40. 23 11.17 6.70 5.59 36.31 Thomaston, Conn...... 2, 880 25.00 25.00 25.00 18.75 6.25 Valparaiso, Ind. 3,180 22.64 16.98 Oskaloosa, Iowa b1,524 631.50 621.26 22.64 67.09 630.71 5 Calais, Me 2,400 13.50 30.00 22.50 9.00 Eastport, Me 2,018 5 65 37.66 15.06 7 Hopkinton, Mass ,675 29.91 29.91 22.43 12.58 12.58 12.58 64.72 64.72 15.00 5.00 5.00 37.66 3.97 14.95 2.80 Melrose, Mass. 2,450 26.13 26. 13 13.06 24.49 3.66 6.53 9 Plymouth, Mass.. b4,520 614. 16 be10, 62 10 1,785 10.35 41.46 Warren, Mass Negaunee, Mich Wyandotte, Mich 13 Ypsilanti, Mich. St. Cloud, Minn. b2,340 2,330 5.57 34.34 17.16 bc7.96 be10. 62614, 16 614.16 614. 16 614.16 10.36 2,090 | 22.97 39.62 15.31 19.14 4.31 7.65 20.73 10.36 6.73 16 Batavia, N. Y. Claremont, N. II 55-1 6. 11 36.65 26.70 2,820 9.93 28.37 28.37 14.18 1,548 6.98 37.20 18.60 30.18 1.89 1.89 13.21 25.06 5.48 14.18 4.97 27.92 4.65 1,485 24.21 2,075 7.52 33.83 15.66 2,550 4.65 684 19 Fremont, Ohio b5, 472 b13. 16 8.24 23.53 23.53 15.78 15.68 23.53 5.49 626, 31 621.05 626.32 66.58 b6.58 63. 16 10.53 10.53 Marietta, Ohio a Three years' course. b Scientific course the same. c Elective. |