SCIENCE IX SECONDARY SCHOOLS 169 



- WESTERN ILLINOIS STATE NORM.AL SCHOOL 



MACOME 



Office of Prin'cip.al: Johx E. McGilvrey 



Januan- 15. 1912. 

 Dear Sir; The State Academy of Science of Illinois has asked me 

 to investigate and report on the A griculmral High School of the L'nited 

 Slates at its regular meeting in February-. I shall be greatly aided if you 

 will forward me a catalog of your course of study, and answer the follow- 

 ing specific qi'estions at your earliest convenience, since the time is ■v'ery 

 short. 

 Hoping to be able to favor you at some time, I am, 



\'er\- truly yours, 



J. T. JOHXSOX, 



Department of Agriculture 



Exact name of school 



When established 



Name of head Title 



Number of buildings Cost 



Number of acres of land Value 



How supported „ 



Amount of appropriation each year 



Amount of private, or public, contributions 



Number of years of work in high school „ 



Number of students Boj-s Girls 



Number of months school is in session _ 



How many weeks are the following subjects taught (If not taught leave 



space blank ) : Physics Chemistry- Botany 



Zoology- Physiologj- Hygiene 



Bacteriology- Physiography Biolog>- 



Somewhat more matter was requested than was implied in the 

 question under investigation, but inasmuch as the data would 

 bear indirectly upon the agricultural high school it was thought 

 advisable to request it. In some instances the accessor}- data 

 helped to determine the t\-pe of school when, in a few instances, 

 catalogs and programs of study could not be furnished because 

 they were either out of print or to date none had been printed. 



According to name the types are easily distinguished, and may 

 be listed in the following manner : State. County. Congressional 

 District, Supreme Court Judicial District. Public High Schools 

 receiving State aid, and Privately endowed. But according to the 

 program of work, and which is more important in the purpose of 

 the State Academy of Science, the types are not so easily dis- 

 tinguished, due to the confusion in the content of subject matter, 

 and the methods of presentation. It is probably too early to 

 assume that the agricultural t\-pe of high school is differentiated, 

 but whatever the assumption, the t}-pe, or t\-pes, do not seem to 

 have appeared from the incomplete reports at hand. Many of 

 the agricultural high schools could be easily mistaken for the 

 accepted high school were it not for the name. 



In order that the conditions may be made intelligible in this 

 brief report, a few summaries are offered from the letters re- 



