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with only four or even fewer recitations per week, giving how- 

 ever corresponding credit, it will be more convenient in this 

 paper to use hours (periods) in place of unit courses, under- 

 standing that five hours constitute a unit course. 



Chicago offers a total of 211 hours work, about forty-two 

 courses, in her high schools, not including manual training 

 which is localized in a few schools, and omitting domestic 

 science and art which are not fully organized. By departments 

 the courses are distributed as follows : 



Foreign language 91 hours, or about 45% of the total 



number of hours offered. 



English 16 hours, or about 8% 



History .- 20 " " " 10% 



Commerce (including arithmetic) 26 " " " 13% 



Mathematics 14 " " " 7% 



Science 24 " " " 12%, 



Music, drawing, etc 20 " " " 10% 



The cultural subjects, language and history, constitute 63% 

 of the total courses offered against 37% in all other subjects. 

 It will be noticed, also, that the commercial department, one of 

 the most recently established, offers a greater number of hours 

 than science, twenty-six hours of commercial work to twenty- 

 four hours of science, and this is counting physiology, geology 

 and astronomy as sciences though they are not usually 

 given with laboratory courses in the Chicago schools, and should 

 really not be counted as science. Excluding these subjects, 

 Chicago offers only nineteen hours work in the laboratory 

 sciences. Excluding from the foreign language group Greek 

 and Spanish, which are not given in most of the schools, Chi- 

 cago offers 57 hours in foreign language to 19 hours in science, 

 exactly three to one. 



In order to compare this with other schools of the state I 

 sent out fifty requests for courses of study, twenty-five to town- 

 ship high schools and twenty-five to city and village high 

 schools and received forty replies. With these forty courses 

 of study I constructed a table showing the number of hours 



