Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-19

As the proposed change Of studies IN the
High school is attracting much attention
in the city from parents and friends OF ed1-
cation. we present the following for COM
parison.
Present course of study
| Junior Year-First term: Algebra, English
| grammar and language commenced general
| history composition and defamation through
out the course languages oPeiondai' p1; we" G
man. French Second term Algebra contin-
ued. English grammar and language completed,
physical geography, Latin, German, French.
| Middle Year-First term Geometry (plane),
| civil government, natural philosophy, Latin
| Greek, German, French Second term: Geom-
etry solid and spherical), chemistry, American
| literature Latin Greek, German, French.
Senior Year-First term Algebra, reviewed
and completed; rhetoric, English literature,
Latin, Creek German, French. Second term :
Moral philosophy, botany zoology, arithmetic,
review of English course, Latin, Greek, German,
French.
Proposed new course:
Junior year-First term: Algebra (commenced),
higher arithmetic, practical geometry general
history, German. Second term: Algebra (contin-
ued), geometry (plane), natural philosophy com
menced), civil government, German.
Middle year-First term Algebra completed
geometry solid and spherical), natural philoso-
ply completely, civil government, Latin, Ger
man. Second term: Chemistry (commenced)
American literature, English, Latin, German.
Senior year-First term: Rhetoric English
literature, chemistry completed, Latin, Ger
man. Second term Moral philosophy, botany,
zoology, review of English course, Latin, Ger
man.
One of the strongest arguments advanced
IN favor OF the new course OF study in the
High School, as presented by u friend of
the change, is as follows:
MT
fit pupils for the State University, and not to
equip boys and girls with the knowledge requiS-
lie to fill the ordinary demands OF modern So
ciety. The majority of High School pupils do
not intend to enter the University; they expect
to advance no further than the High School,
and il would seem reasonable that more atten-
ton to such studies as the higher mathematics,
natural philosophy, history, chemistry and the
English language, and less TO such disciplinary
studies rs Latin and Greek, would be an adj
vance in the right direction. The experience of
such able educators as Prof. Q. NJ. Adams leads
them to supply the demands OF the universities
in fitting pupils for those Institutions. Mr.
Adams has long since demonstrated his abilities
in that direction.
Pupils entering the High School are not COM
PEELED to study Latin and Greek and the Board
of Education seems to regard as extremely de
sirable the devotion of more time and attention
to other branches than to those that will fit one
two pupils each year for the University.
1t is held that the new course of study will
permit of as rapid an advancement of the very
few pupils that prepare for the University each
year as the old course and will in addition
give the many whose educational opportunities
viii terminate at the High School the in
estimable advantage of receiving more instruc-
ton in MATHEMATICS, the natural sciences and
the English language.
The utility of French and German in the
schools is not matter of question, and there
was by no means Il harmonious unanimity in
the matter of dropping French as an optional
study from the new course. There is, however,
reason for the belief that, in Difference to the
demand for instruction in French, the Board
will re-adopt it before the beginning of the next
school year.