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offered in each department and showing also the distribution 

 of the science courses offered by each school. 



Studying this table I find that the ratios remain about the 

 same as in Chicago except that there are fewer courses in the 

 foreign languages and often more in the sciences (not includ- 

 ing domestic science). The courses offered in the foreign lan- 

 guages in the various schools range from 20 hours tO' 95 hours 

 in amount. While the courses offered in science range from 

 15 hours to 35 hours, averaging 41 hours of foreign language 

 to 23 hours of science. No distinction is here made between 

 laboratory science and text-book science, since many of the 

 courses of study did not indicate the methods used in the school. 

 Physiology is required and is usually given without an accom- 

 panying laboratory course. I estimate that 20 hours is about 

 the correct average of the laboratory sciences, or about 13% of 

 the average total number of hours offered. 



Of equal importance with the amount of time given, and grow- 

 ing directly out of this, is the organization of the courses. In 

 Latin, for example, we find a well organized four year course, 

 each succeeding year building on the work of the preceding 

 year, the whole forming a graded series with one object in 

 view. The same is true of the other foreign languages and of 

 English as now taught in the schools. In history the courses 

 are consecutive, beginning with ancient history and ending in 

 most schools with American history and civics. In even the 

 latest subjects to be added to the curriculum as in the case of 

 the commercial department, most schools offer a graded series 

 of four to six unit courses preparing for business life. 



Now, how is it with science? We find four years work 

 usually offered, consisting ui ])hysical geography and physi- 

 ology in the first year, botany and zoology or a year of either in 

 the second, and physics and chemistry or chemistry and ])hysics 

 in the third and fourth years. This is not, in any sense, a 

 graded course as in Latin, German and other subjects. It is 

 rather a series of fragments of science, with a half year or 

 a whole year devoted to each fragment. 1^he scries cannot be 

 called a four year course comparable with the courses in other 



