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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 school Sciences. 

 Present Position and Trend. Final Position and Character. 





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Botanyjmorphology of root»stem, 

 1 and leaf .( economic, local ) 



PhysiologyC elementary, hygienic) 





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Phys.Geog. .75 



Physiology .94 • 



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Physl cs( elementary ) matter, heat, 

 gases, 1 iquids, mechanics. 



Physical Geography; lard forms, 

 earth structure, stream action 

 weather tng,topogTaphy,cl imate 



Soils; texture, moisture, tempera- 

 ture. contra! , tillage, production. 





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Botany * -1.4S — 



2oology - 1,86 — 



Botany; flower, fertilisation, 

 fruit, field recognition of 

 12 economic families. 

 Minute structure of root. stem 

 end leaf , nutrition . 



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Chemistry 2.95 

 — Physics - 3.00 



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Zoology; invertebrate, economic . 

 life hi story, control. 

 Properties of -pro topi asm, type 

 studies. parasitism, selection. 



Chemistry;inorganlc>lab.*. theory 

 Foods. Nutrition, Fertility, 

 theory, laboratory, plot worR. 



f Botany; cryptogams, economic, dis- 

 — I ease , con tro 1 . 



t Evolution, sex science. 





3-25 



3.6 



( Zoology;vertebTate.jComparative. 

 ■< Physiology ;nutr it ion, evolutioOt 

 {_ eugenics. 



— Physics: exact, applications. 



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 



