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be valuable additions to the classroom library. The purpose of 

 the series is one of introduction and orientation, suited to the 

 needs and objectives of the early years of secondary school and 

 preparatory to the consideration of logically organised subject' 

 matter at higher levels. The junior high school pupil who has 

 been brought to grips with such human problems as conserva' 

 tion, public opinion or security will have acquired the back 

 ground which makes civics, economics and sociology meaning 

 ful. "By its intrinsic nature," says Charles A. Beard, "social 

 science requires some picture of the process in which we live 

 and work and when it is realistically conceived it must deal with 

 what is here and now and also with what is emerging from the 

 here and now." 2 



"Charles A. Beard. A Charter for the Social Sciences. Part I: Report of the 

 Commission on the Social Studies. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1932. P. 56. 



