516 KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



ELEMENTARY AND SECONDAKY SCHOOLS. 



As characteristic of the University of Chicago, there deserves to be 

 mentioned the secondary school connected therewith (university acad- 

 emy in Moro-an Park.) It was opened in 1S92 in the former theological 

 seminar}^ that was merged with the university, and, like all the sec- 

 ondary schools of the United States, was for both sexes. Recently, 

 however, girls have been excluded because the pupils all live in the 

 house itself and not, as in many other secondary schools, in their 

 families." The school is about 7i miles distant from the university, 

 and consists of a row of buildings, a library with 5,000 volumes, dor- 

 mitories for 170 pupils, etc. The academy is attended for from four 

 to five 3^ears, preparation for college being thus attained. The 

 instruction includes Latin, Greek, French, German, mathematics, 

 history, physics, chemistry, botany, and geography. This secondary 

 school belongs to the pedagogical department, as does also an elemen- 

 tary school situated near the university, which accommodates 100 

 children of an age from 4 to 14 3"ears, and costs |13,000 annually. 

 These are considered as necessary for the pedagogical department, and 

 are, so to speak, laboratories in which problems of elementary and 

 secondar}^ education are to be worked out. " No work can commend 

 itself more heartily to the attention of the investigator than the study 

 of the growth and development of the mind of the child, and the adap- 

 tation of educational theories to such growth." A similar establish- 

 ment on a larger scale has recently been organized at the Columbia 

 University in New York,* and at the Chicago Universit}^ there has 

 recently been laid the cornerstone of a school of education for which 

 $1,000,000 are available, and which will contain an elementary school 

 for kindergarten instruction and for instruction in beginnings, a sec- 

 ondary school (academy) provided with a manual training school, and 

 a normal school. 



UNIVERSITY EXTENSION. 



The university extension concerns itself chiefly with lectures in 

 Chicago and in neighborhoods more or less remote, on philoso- 

 phy, pedagogics, political econoni}", history, sociology, anthropology, 

 Semitic languages and literatures, Greek language and literature, 

 Romance languages and literatures, English language and literature, 

 astronomy, geolog}^, zoology, neurology, botan}^ music, art. Old and 

 New Testament literature and interpretation, and in this the director of 

 the art institute and employees of the Field Columbian Museum take 

 part; these also are docents in the university. In 1898-99 there were 

 125 such courses held. Besides this, the university extension gives 



« There are many secondary schools in the United States in which pupils of both 

 sexes live in the school itself. These are the so-called boarding schools. 



ft See Colmnhm University Quarterly, III, pp. 243-246, 1901, The New Horace 

 Mann School, by S. T. Button. 



