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made of required home work in the forcing of bulbs and the grow- 

 ing of at least five seeds. Drawings, color sketches, and written 

 observations as well as the specimens themselves are brought to the 

 laboratory and form the basis of the lessons. 



By these means the students acquire more or less knowledge of the 

 following subjects: Fruits, germination, bulbs, common plant fami- 

 lies, the common names of some eighty or ninety common flowering 

 plants, the common names of some twenty trees, some knowledge of 

 half a dozen ferns, a moss, several mushrooms, bread-mold and other 

 fungi, several algae, bacteria, winterbuds, folding and color of new 

 leaves, pollination, parasitism. 



In beginning the course in evolution we ask them to put on paper 

 their ideas on the subject. Every year we find that 99 per cent 

 of them believe either that evolution is a religious theory, or rather 

 an irreligious one, or else that its cardinal tenet is that man has 

 descended from monkeys. The others usually believe that evolution 

 teaches that everything in the organic world harks back to an amoeba. 

 We do not hesitate to supplement the study of organic evolution 

 with such subjects as the evolution of art in Netherlands, or even the 

 evolution of modern dress. 



The students in their senior year have the same opportunity to 

 teach nature-study under observation and criticism that they have to 

 teach any other subject. In addition to this, provision is made for 

 an extra hour per week spent in teaching a grade, or in observation, 

 either in teaching a fellow student, or of the normal school teacher 

 in the same grade. These lessons are usually a half hour long, so 

 that there is time at their close for informal criticism both by the 

 members of the senior class and by the normal school specialist, of 

 the lesson just observed, and also for discussion of the next lesson. 



L. L. W. Wilson 



STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, HYANNIS, MASS. 



Biology is required of all students throughout the two years course. 

 An additional year is also given in the advanced class. In the first 

 year botany is given So periods from Sept. to Dec, and from April to 

 July, and zoology 80 periods from Dec. to April. In the second year 

 anatomy, physiology and hygiene is given 80 periods from Sept. to 

 Feb. Also in this year, there is practice in the Training School in 

 nature-study or hygiene ; one and one-half to two hours weekly from 

 Feb. to July. 



