SCIENCE IX SECOXDARY SCHOOLS I7I 



Phjsiography is taught 506 weeks. 

 Hygiene is taught 367 weeks. 

 Zoology is taught 294 weeks. 

 Bacteriology is taught 2^8 weeks. 

 Biology is taught 234}^ weeks. 



The quantitative basis for ranking places chemistry in the lead 

 also, and tends to group chemistry and physics separately from 

 botany, since there is a margin of 430 weeks between the lowest, 

 botany, and the next, physics. The order of the ranking is the 

 same for the pure sciences, whether placed on the qualitative or 

 quantitative basis. The quantitative ranking merely serves to 

 accentuate the preference for chemistry and physics. The great- 

 est length of time devoted to any one science is ^2 weeks, for 

 chemistry; and the same. /2 weeks, is found also for physics. 

 The greatest length of time devoted to botany is 40 weeks. The 

 shortest length of time is 3 weeks, for zoology, and the next is 

 4 weeks, for hygiene. 



The length of the course of study varies, and it would be 

 unwise to assume that each of the agricultural high schools has 

 a four-years' course, which fact is revealed in the comparison 

 below : 



I school has a course of 5 years. 



26 schools have a course of 4 years. 



9 schools have a course of 3 years. 



8 schools have a course of 2 years. 



Nearly 63 per cent of the schools have a course of study under 

 four years in length. 



The length of the school }ear varies from twelve months to 

 six months. 



I school continues for 12 months. 



1 school continues for 10 months. 

 3S schools continue for 9 months. 



7 schools continue for 8 months. 



2 schools continue for 6 months. 



About 25 per cent of the agricultural high schools have a school 

 year fewer than nine months in length. 



The above summarizations are transmitted from data collected 

 from original sources with the hope that the members of the 

 State Academy of Science may have an adequate perspective of 

 the pure sciences in the authorized agricultural high schools in 

 the United States. 



