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in the report adopted by the secondary department of the National 

 Education Association in July, 1911, on " The Articulation of High 

 School and College." In its report of 1893, the Committee of Ten 

 suggested a similar treatment of the subject of geography, a recom- 

 mendation that seems to have had little influence on subsequent practise. 

 Despite the variety of opinion as to what the sequence of high 



Sequence of High sc>iool Sciences. 

 Present Position and Trend. Final Position and Character. 



Botany;niorphology of root»slem> 

 and leaf .( eco»\on>lCi local ) 



Physiol ogy( elemen tar yi hygienic ) 



5 Phys.Ceog. .75 

 Physiology .94 



.s 



J 



Botany - -1.4S 

 2oology - 1.85 



Pyiyslcs(ele>)rentary ) niattCTi heati 

 gases>l iquids, mechanics. 



Physical Geography ;ljirtd forms, 

 earth strviclure. stream actSon 

 weathering, topographyiC] itnate 



Soil s; t ex tuTe>mo is ture, tempera- 

 ture, control , tlllagff.productioa 



(Botany; flower, feTtilUation, 

 fruit, field recognition of 

 12 economic families. 

 Minute striictvire of root. Stem 

 and leaf , nutrition. 



Chemistry 2,95 

 — Physics - 3.00 



z^s- 



Zoology; invertebrate, economic , 



life hj story, control . 



\ Properties of -protoplasm) type 

 V. studies, parasitism, selection. 



.5 ( Chemistry ; Inorganic, lab.*, theory 

 )_J Foods. Nutrition, Fertility. 

 I theory, laboratory, plot TforK. 



C Botany ;cryptogam.s, economic. dls- 

 — I ease, control. 



(^ Evolution, sex science. 



3-26 



3.6 



( Zoology ;vertebTatejComparativ€>. 

 -| physiology;nutr it ion, evolution* 



[ eugen Ic s . 

 — Physics: exact, appl JcatlonS, 



school science should be, experience has established a generally accepted 

 order, agreeing more or less with the authoritative report of the Com- 

 mittee of Ten. Eecent high school courses of study of the twenty-one 

 largest cities in Illinois, omitting Chicago and its environs, give inter- 

 esting data concerning the present practise. The method of using these 

 data was to give the value .5 to a science offered any time in the first 



