The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-10-22
TOWNSHIP HlGH SCHOOLS.
Curse Of Study Prepared by Superintendent
W. W. Evans.

the following course of study tor town.
ship High Schools, of which there are
five, as follows: Mlfflnville, Benton,
Orangeville, Fishing Creek and Still
water.
The course as outlined is as follows:
MATHEMATICS.
First year: Algebra, three .fourhs
of the year; Review Arithmetic one
fourth of a year
Second year: Algebra three .fourths
Of the year; Review Arithmetic, one
fourth of year.
Third year: Plain Geometry; Men.
suration.
HISTORY.
First year: General History three.
fourths of the year; Civil Government,
Townships and Counties, one.fourth
Of year.
Second year: General history, three
fourths of the year; Civil Government,
State, one fourth of year.
Third year: Review u. S. History
with related English History, three
fourths Of the year; Civil Government,
Nature, one-fourth of year.
ENGLISH COMPOSITION, LITERATURE
First year: Study narrative in both
English Composition and Literary
Classics.
Second year: Study Description.
Third year: Study Exposition and
Augmentation. The work in this
subject will embrace thorough view
of Grammar, Spelling and Writing,
with all the essentials OF Rhetoric.
SCIENCE.
First year: Botany one-half year
(fall and spring terms; Book keeping
one-half year (winter term.)
Second year: Physical Geography
one-half year; Geology one half year.
If suitable textbook can be found
an opportunity to study agriculture
will be given in those schools where
it is desired.
LATIN.
First year: First Year Latin.
Second year: Second Year Latin;
Prose Composition.
Third year: Cicero; Virgil.
EXPLANATION.
The foregoing course of study has
been prepared to serve the following
purposes:
I. To provide definite basis fol-
work in the grades beyond the com.
mon branches as taught in village and
rural High Schools of Coumbia
county.
2. TO secure definite promotion
in the High Schools throughout the
county, thereby lessening the evi
effects of too frequent change O
teachers. --.... ---,-
To unity the work in the High
Schools of the county by furnishing
the basis for closer and more eff
cient direction and supervision, ano
for comparing by means of examina
tion, the results in the differen,
schools.
a. To enable the directors ant
parents to know better what our High
Schools are accomplishing for theil
children, and to cooperate with the
teachers in the work.
This course of study has been fran
ed primarily for the purpose of meet
ing the requirements of those young
people who have no prospects Of ever
attending an advanced school away
from home.
Its aim, therefore, is to provide ar
opportunity for securing thoroughly
good, general education which shal
serve as an adequate foundation for {
successful career in any vocation.
While it is not the direct aim to
prepare students for admission into
higher institutions of learning, it will
be found that the course provides an
excellent preparation for entrance
into our State Normal School anc
with only few additions it meets the
requirements for entrance into the
colleges.
The work as outlined in this course
of study meets the requirements o.
our State law, relating to the estab
fishing of Township High Schools
The maximum amount of extra ap-
preparation to townships maintaining
a High School of three years is SIX
hundred dollars, a sum sufficient, with
careful management, to maintain such