South Georgia Male and Female College. 8 Georgia School of Languages, Science and Art. St. Joseph's Academy. Sacred Heart College........ German-American Academy 13 Evangelical Pro-seminary 14 Morgan Park Military Academy. 15 Indianapolis Institute..... 16 Vincennes University 17 Wartburg College.......... 18 Lewis Academy.. 19 Male and Female High 20 Hampden Academy.. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 St. George's Hall for Boys Powers Institute....... Nichols Academy.... Partridge Academy. Williston Seminary, Thayer Academy. 29 Highland Military Academy 30 Michigan Military Academy 31 Shattuck School.. 32 Jefferson College 36 37 33 Kemper Family School.... 34 Wentworth Male Academy... 35 Shelbina Collegiate Institute.. Brewster Free Academy Academic Department of the German Theological School of Newark, N. J. Mount Holly Academy. 38 39 Bainbridge Academy. Adelphi Academy 40 41 Parker Union School. 42 Cottage Seminary Anniston, Ala.. Mobile, Ala... Middletown, Conn. DeLand, Fla Gainesville, Fla... Tallahassee, Fla Dawson, Ga.... Norcross, Ga. Washington, Ga.. San Francisco, Cal. Indianapolis, Ind Vincennes, Ind......... Hampden, Me. Mount Holly, N. J Bainbridge, N. Y. Brooklyn, N. Y. Clarence, N. Y Greenwich, N. Y New York, N. Y Harlem Springs, Ohio... Germantown, Pa McDonald, Pa.................... ...........] 2,400 33.3 16.7 1,710 a G indicates school for girls; B, school for boys; M, school for both sexes. 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 courses of secondary instruction. The inquiry 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. On account of different interpretations put 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 distribution 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 here described was followed also in the preparation of Table 39, which presents the corresponding information for seventy-one public high schools. The few departures from the length of the course selected are indicated by foot-notes. |