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superficial ; the study of special branches of science begins with 

 the first year of the high school, when physical geography or 

 physiography may be begun, and in the spring the attention 

 may be given to the unfolding vegetation. Next autumn the 

 plant and insect world can be considered in their interrelations. 

 When the leaves fall, comparative anatomy and general physi- 

 ology, that is, "zoology" may be studied, taking up the develop- 

 ment of the hen's egg in the spring and making comparison with 

 the developing eggs of the frog and of insects. The third yeij^r 

 may be devoted to physics and the fourth to chemistry; but these 

 sciences have their highest applications in physiology, and the 

 best reason that can be given for their study is that they make it 

 possible for us to understand physiology. Hence I would com- 

 bine physiology with them. Yet so interrelated are all depart- 

 ments of knowledge that it becomes easy and proper to include 

 natural science in general and biology in particular in much of 

 the work of the other hours of the school day. Under history 

 will be included the biographies of the scientists and the history 

 of science, as well as much of anthropology. Under language 

 will come not only readings in scientific English but also in 

 scientific German. Under art will be included drawings of living 

 models. Under manual training will be included not only writ- 

 ing but school gardening and practical agriculture, also wood 

 working, etc. Even mathematics should be extended to the 

 solution of problems in physics, chemistry, biology, physiology, 

 etc. In this way the student realizes that knowledge is com- 

 pactly knit together, as an organized unity. And this is the most 

 cogent reason why all men should have a general training. 

 Special training can be offered in various directions, not by exclu- 

 sion of any one of the six fundamentals, but by varying the pro- 

 portion between the branches that belong in each. Thus in a 

 classical course, the language hour can be devoted to Greek or 

 Latin rather than to French or German. In the business course, 

 the mathematical hour can be devoted to business arithmetic. 

 In a similar way we can have as many special courses as we de- 

 sire without narrowing the foundation. 

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