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there are three hours of gymnastics, two hours of drawing and one 

 hour of singing. For the friends of women's progress, however, the 

 chief accent of the system lies on the Studienanstalt. It is a school of 

 six classes demanding six years' work open to those who have passed the 

 first seven classes of the higher girls' schools. The three highest classes 

 of the girls' school are then skipped, and instead of them the six years' 

 course undertaken. This, however, is again divided into three separate 

 schools corresponding to the Gymnasium, the Real gymnasium and the 

 Oberrealschule of the boys. In the Gymnasium course during those 

 six years the girls have three hours a week German, six hours a week 

 Latin, at first three, later two hours French, in the first two classes 

 three hours a week English, in the last four classes eight hours a week 

 Greek. Through all the years there is history two hours, mathematics 

 first four, later two hours, religion two, geography one, gymnastics three 

 and drawing three. In the Real gymnasium the girls have no Greek 

 whatever, but throughout six hours Latin, three hours French, three 

 hours English and somewhat more mathematics and natural science 

 than in the Gymnasium course. Finally in the Oberrealschule Latin 

 too is omitted while both French and English are increased to four 

 hours a week, mathematics to five, natural science to four and German 

 also to four. This new plan adapts itself most successfully to the vari- 

 ous needs, and the only danger lies in the fact that inasmuch as these 

 three last types of schools open wide the way to the professional studies 

 of the universities the number of academically trained women may soon 

 by far surpass the demand of the community. 



This vivid activity in the direction of liberal changes through gov- 

 ernmental initiative does not exclude an abundance of efforts to break 

 new educational paths. For instance much interest is centered nowa- 

 days on the so-called reform schools. They aim toward postponing 

 the decision for a particular type of school as late as possible. The 

 usual schools are different from the start. The classical schools begin 

 with their Latin in the lowest classes. The reform school systems, of 

 which the model was the city school system of Frankfort, have a common 

 foundation for all schools, reminding one in this respect of the Ameri- 

 can principle. The much-discussed Frankfort plan in the first three 

 classes gives to all the pupils in common five hours German, six hours 

 French, two hours geography, five hours mathematics, two hours of 

 natural science, two hours of writing, three to two hours of religion, 

 three hours of gymnastics, two hours of drawing and two hours of sing- 

 ing. Only with the fourth class does the bifurcation begin. In the 

 classical course the fourth class begins at once with ten hours Latin 

 and the sixth class with eight hours of Greek, while in the realistic 

 course the Latin is started in the fourth class, with eight hours going 

 down to six, and the English begins in the sixth class with six hours. 



