The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-13

 FOR
 HIGH SCHOOL Supt. Gunnels An rlounces the Course. RAISES CURRICULUM HIGH It is Based on Seven Years of
 Elementary Work. Four Years Is the Period for cradua- tion and Certificates Admit to Highest Institutions of the
 south.

After several weeks of investigation, Hon. Harry c. GunneIs, State Superin- tendent of Education, yesterday finish- ed preparing uniform course of study for the county high schools of the State. as required by Jaw, and made It was not until the head of the De- pertinent of Education had consulted many competent advisors and asked for the co-oparation of the Alabama Edu- catlonai Association that he promulgat- ed the high school curriculum.
 The eourse has also the endorsement of the Alabama Association of College Presidents. Indeed. many of the sug- gestions which were approved by Su- perintendent Gunnels have come from the executive eommittee of thu college presidents association as well as from the committee on secondary education of the Alabama Educational Associa- ton,
 In finally approving the course of study, the State Superintendent is call Ing upon the boards of control of the agricultural schools and the prinei- pals of the high schools already estab- ltshed and to be established to adopt It. The course is based on an elemen- tary course of seven grades Of years of school work. This means that stu dents entering upon the work outlined in the curriculum are supposed to be advanced up te the eighth or perhaps the ninth grade.
 As Indicating the care with which the course has been prepared 1t can be safely asserted that graduates of the high schools pursuing 1t can be ad- lnitted on certificates ta the freshman class of the highest colleges of the State and the sophomore class of oth- CTS,
 The students who finish the course may enter the freshman classes of any high institution of the South as such value was part of the aim of those who contributed to the outline. It was announced yesterday that printed cop- les of the couraa for general distrlbu- ton to the teachers and others will not be available for more than week yet. The Department of Education hopes to days.
 Following Is the exact copy of the course of study for the four years, giv- ing the number of recitation periods per week and baslng on twenty-three ilnita for the first three yeara and twenty-feur for the fourth:
 Biased on an elementary course of seven grades of years).
 First Year.
 Number ef recitation periods per Engliah--GrammaF reviewed, rhetoric and composition and classics, five.
 Mathema matics--Arlth reviewed ttirst half-year) Algebra. (seoond half- year). five.
 History--Enslish history three.
 Science--PhyHical geography with practical school gardening, three.
 Manual training and dfawing-Geo- metrical drawing. two.
 Eleetiye--(Elther of the foiIowing), five.
 Latin--BesinnsEs five.
 German---GFammar and composition. easy reading, five.
 Required, twenty-thFes.
 Second Year.
 English-RhetoFie and composition, classics five.
 athsmaticsv-Algebra to auaAraties (first haif-year): plane Geometry, (soc- ond half-year). five
 HistOry--Anelent history to 800 A. D. three.
 Seience--Riology, with practical school gardening three.
 Manual training and drawing. two Elective-(one of following);
 Latin-Caesar. four books, grammar and prose composition. five
 i5eFman--GrammaF and competition, reading of intermediate texts, five.
 Commercial arithmetic five.
 Required, twenty-three.
 Third Year.
 English--Hlstory of English litera- ture, competition and ciassics, five.
 Mathsmatles--Plane geometry, (Arst half-yearl; advanced Algebra. (seeand half-yearl, five.
 Hlstory--Mediaevai and modern his. tory. three.
 Eieetive--(Twe of fellowing): ten. selenee--Physles, with practical school gardening, Home economies five
 Latin-Cicero, six oFationsi grammar and prose composition. five.