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INDIANA UNIVERSITY STUDIES 



therefore, to bring- the data on the course of study as nearly up 

 to date as possible, a supplementary request was sent to repre- 

 sentatives of most of the school systems from which replies had 

 been received, asking for copies of the course of study then in use. 

 The response to this request was very gratifying, replies coming 

 from two-thirds of those receiving it. The answers contained 

 either a statement that the course had not been changed, or a copy 

 of the new course was sent if changes had been made. This later 

 material was used in tabulating the answers to the first question in 

 the original questionnaire. 



Few persons answered in full each question in the question- 

 naire. This fact accounts for the variation in the number report- 

 ing on the different questions ; it has also made it necessary to give 

 the reader the exact number of cases represented in each phase 

 of this report. 



Two hundred and fifty-nine schools or school systems were 

 represented in the returns, not counting duplicate answers from 

 the same system or systems. Of the 259 schools or school systems, 

 153 replies came from Indiana cities, towns, counties, and districts ; 

 and the remaining 106 from towns and cities in twenty-nine states 

 and in the District of Columbia. The states represented in the re- 

 turns, with the number of school systems in each, are as follows: 

 Alabama, one; California, six; Colorado, five; Connecticut, four; 

 Kansas, four ; Kentucky, three ; Maine, one ; Massachusetts, five ; 

 Michigan, seven ; Minnesota, three ; Missouri, three ; Montana, two ; 

 Nebraska, two ; New Hampshire, three ; New Jersey, five ; New York, 

 two; North Dakota, one; Pennsylvania, eight; Rhode Island, one; 

 Oliio, eleven; Oklahoma, one; South Dakota, one; Tennessee, one; 

 Wasihington, three; AVest Virginia, two; Wisconsin, five; Illinois, 

 twelve; Iowa, three; Nevada, one; District of Columbia, one; In- 

 diana, 153 (seven from county superintendents, eight from district 

 schools, and 138 from Indiana city and town schools). Every sec- 

 tion of the United States is represented in this distribution. There 

 a,re five New England states, three Middle-Atlantic, fourteen 

 Middle- Western, five Southern, and four Far- Western states. The 

 distribution both in the United States as a whole, and within each 

 state, is largely one of chance. 



One hundred and forty-three reports were made out by persons 

 signing themselves as superintendents of city schools; thirty-nine 

 by ward principals; ten by county superintendents; eighteen by 

 history teachers in grammar schools; six by assistant superintend- 



