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CURRICULUM OF THE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT AGRI- 

 CULTURAL SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA" 



f(a) and (6) placed after a subject indicate first and second semester, respectively.] 



First Year 



English grammar and composition 



Arithmetic 



Algebra 



English history 



Physical geography 



Elementary agriculture 



Practical work 



Substitute Latin for English history 

 and physical geography 



English 



Algebra 



Ancient history 



Physiology 



Soils and crops (a) 



Agricultural botany (b) . . 

 Practical work in each. 



Second Year 



Substitute Caesar for physiology. . 



English literature 



Plane geometry 



Arithmetic reviewed (a) 



Pedagogy (6) 



Mediaeval history (a) 



Modern history (6) 



Physics with laboratory work. . . . . . 



Stock lectures and agricultural lit- 

 erature (a) 



Horticulture (6) 



Agricultural botany (6) 



Practical work each term 



Third Year 



5 

 5 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 5 



Substitute Cicero for stock lectures 

 and agricultural literature during 

 first semester 



American literature 



Solid geometry (a) 



Plane trigonometry (6) 



American, history, civics 



Chemistry with laboratory work . . . 

 Agriculture (o) dairying, soils, and 



fertilizers 



(6) Agricultural literature or 



farm accounts 



Fourth Year 



(May substitute Virgil for soils, fer- 

 tilizers and agricultural litera- 

 ture) 



Notes. — All students must work two hours a week on the experiment station. Courses 

 are offered the girls in music, expression, and art. One school offers courses in home eco- 

 nomics. One school has a complete woodworking outfit, costing $1,500. Two schools 

 have commercial courses. 



"This program of studies and the next table are adapted from the 

 report of President C. J. Owens, Bulletin No. 220 of the Office of Experi- 

 ment Stations, with information from the individual school catalogues. 



