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should be given in an introductory general science course which 
will enable the student to determine his interest and desire to pur- 
sue the subject further, in which case he should have the oppor- 
tunity to elect work in biology. In this school one term of our 
general science course is taught by biology teachers, and if at the 
end of that term a considerable group have developed sufficient 
interest in biology to make it seem likely that they will receive 
either ‘essential information’ or ‘educational discipline,’ courses 
in general biology will be organized for them.’—Horace M. 
Snyder, Manual Training H. S. 
“At Stuyvesant High School, which makes a specialty in ap- 
plied sciences, especially in the fields of physics, chemistry, and 
engineering, the chief science of our first term is shop physics and 
chemistry; in our second term we have a course in physiology 
and hygiene. The subject of biology is not regularly taken up 
in this school until the fourth year, when it is presented in a form 
suited to the needs of students planning to enter the professions 
of dentistry and medicine. I am, therefore, not in a position to 
state from actual experience what might be the value of the study 
of biology to boys in the first year of high school living in the 
crowded district in the lower East Side of New York. It seems, 
however, that in such an environment as this, in which every- 
thing biological except man tends to be suppressed, the study of 
biology in fields other than human physiology would lose much 
of its inspiration and charm. If our school had the environment 
of a suburban town, or even of the more spacious outskirts of 
our city where home gardens and animal pets are commonplaces, 
I should feel that biology would be an essential subject in the 
lower terms of the school.”—Ernest R. von Nardroff, Stuyvesant 
“Personally I feel that, while the biology is important, con- 
sidering the environment in which our pupils live, a course in 
general science, satisfactorily developed, would be of greater value 
and importance. I realize fully that thus far this subject of gen- 
eral science has not been completely and successfully defined. 
Nevertheless, there is a general feeling as to what it should ac- 
complish, and I am convinced that sooner or later we shall find a 
way of carrying out our aims. Furthermore, as has already been 
