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Alcorn County; Oakland, Yalobusha County; and Poplarville, 

 Pearl River County. 



The fact that both Latin and Greek are taught in some of 

 these schools makes it of doubtful propriety to include them 

 with agricultural high schools as strictly defined. 



Reference has been made in Chapter II to schools of the public 

 high-school type which add agriculture to their curricula and then 

 appropriate the name " agricultural high school." While in some 

 cases such schools may be regarded merely as variants of the 

 usual high school with a diversified curriculum, it is hardly fair 

 to so regard certain other schools which are really a sort of 

 cross between the general high school and the one which is 

 exclusively industrial. The fact that the state makes special 

 grants to some high schools to establish definite departments of 

 agriculture, and that the central authorities organize the work 

 instead of leaving its initiation and organization entirely to local 

 effort, would seem to place these schools in a class by them- 

 selves. But even here we find a very close analogy in the pro- 

 cedure of such states, as New Jersey, which give state aid to 

 schools maintaining a department of " manual training," or " in- 

 dustrial arts," depending in amount on the money spent by the 

 local board. In no case, however, do we find these schools 

 calling themselves manual training or industrial schools, when 

 they carry on all the other work usually taught in high schools. 



Schools are rapidly being reorganized on this plan in Louisi- 

 ana, Minnesota, and Virginia. 



To many thoughtful educators, especially to those in sympathy 

 with the views of Dean Davenport,^^ of the University of 

 Illinois, this intermediate type of school may seem more desirable 

 than the Wisconsin type, combining the strong points of the 

 latter with those of the general high school, and avoiding the 

 disadvantages of both. 



State secondary schools of agriculture other than those organ- 

 ized in connection with the agricultural colleges and using their 

 equipment, have been established in but three states, as already 

 mentioned. These are more or less dependent upon such appro- 



^' Education for Efficiency, 1909, chap. V and VI. 



