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as follows : Sixty per cent, to instruction in lan- 

 guages, including our own language ; twenty-five 

 per cent, to mathematics ; fifteen per cent, to science. 

 There were five classes in foreign languages. The 

 classification and division of time is about the same 

 as it has been for several years past. It clearly indi- 

 cates a one-sided culture, which was fully substan- 

 tiated by the examination. A symmetrical culture 

 would be more favored by a division more nearly 

 like the following : Thirty per cent, of the time for 

 mathematics ; Thirty per cent, for science ; thirty 

 per cent, for language ; ten per cent, for art. 



At the present time we have nine scholars in lan- 

 guages, and three classes for their accommodation. 

 There was some pressure last term for the formation 

 of two more classes for the accommodation of three 

 other scholars. 



A false classification has been one of the chief 

 agencies in bringing the school into its present con- 

 dition. It has been divided and subdivided into 

 nearly three times as many classes as there ought to 

 be. With two teachers the scholars have been under 

 instruction only about one-fourth of the day, while 

 with* one teacher and a proper classification each 

 scholar would be under instruction considerably more 

 than one-third of the day. By this means much more 

 thorough work would be accomplished, not only in 



