The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-13
 LOWER GRADES District School Trustees Meet. wETUMPKA SCHOOL EXEMPT AgriculturalS Acquire Greater ' Efficiency Without Lower
 Grades. A Unifsrm CurricuIun was Adopted. Being Based on seven Years of
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cultural schools of the State will be the elimination of the elementary grades. making these . portion of the city school system, rather than an ad- junct of the district schools. The trus- tees of six of the schools met yester- day, and those of three others. the First. Third and Fourth Districts. will be in session today.
 It is probable that the elimination of the grammar school will be effected in the case of all the schools. save that of the Fifth District at Wetump- ka. where the citizens have given such substantial aid to the agricultural propriations, that the State authorities will bow to their desires for the time. Here the elementary grades of the city schools are operated in conjunction with the agricultural school It has been ascertained that the ag- ricultural schools acquire a greater ef- ficiency. when separate from the lower grades.
 The trustees of the Second. Fifth. Sixth. Seventh. Eighth and Ninth Dis trict Schools. met yesterday in the of flee of Governor Conner, who is mem ber ex-onicio, with Superintendent Gun nels and Commissioner of Agriculture Wilkinson, of each of the nine boards. The president of each of the six
  sent. Tn the Second District School. at Evergreen. H. L. Lille is president Neither of the two local trustees, who work in connection with the three State officers, were present.
 Of the Fifth District School at sWe- tumpka, NJ. Hohenberg. one of the To- cal trustees, was present, l.. L. vanD was reelected president at shghtiy increased salary.
 J. T. Johnson and W. T. White, To- cal trustees of the Sixth District School at Hamilton, were present. H. O. Sar- gent was reelected president, and pro- |, vision was made for the establishment of an artesian well in the school grounds.
 L. w. Riddle of the. local board. was present at the session of the Seventh District trustees. J. B. Hobdy of AL
 bertviIle. was reelected president. Of the Eighth District School. at
 Athens, Theodore Westmoreland and N.
 NJ. Rowe. of the local board. were
 present. c. Nj. Atkinson was re-eiect-
 ed president. Here. in pursuance of
 the policy of eliminating the lower grades, the grammar schools was cut
 of from the agricultural school proper: Representing the local Board or Trustees of the Ninth District School, at Blountsville. John F. Wilson and
 A. o. Steele were present. F. A. Miller was reelected president Of great importance to the admin l istration of the nine schools was the
 adoption of a uniform curriculum. The
 course of study. based on seven years
 of elementary work, was compiled by committee appointed by joint
 meeting of the trustees. and composed of c. J. Owens, L. l.. Vann. J. B.
 Hobdy and J. F. Duggar.
 Course of study.
 The courses of study. for the four
 years in the agricultural schools are;
 First Class. first term-Agriculture,
 hours; science e-physiography. ? hours; history. 8 hours; mathematics, arith- metic and albegra, 10 hours: English,
 hours. Second term same schedule.
 Second Class, first term--Agriculture.
 hours; science-physiology, hours; history. 2 hours; mathematics. algebra. |5 hours; English, hours. Second term. same course. with exception in- troduction of botany into agriculture course. Algebra completed.
 Third Class, first term--Agriculture,
 hours; science-physics and labora- tory work. 5 hours; history. hours: 1 mathematics arithmetic reviewed and plane geometry, 8 hours; English, 5 | hours. Second term same course, ex- ception 3 hours pedagogy added. 1 Fourth Class, first tterm-Agriculture, | 5 hours; history, hours: science-
 chemistry, laboratory. work. 5 hours;
 mathematics, plane trigometry and sol-
 i'd geometry, hours: English. 5 hours;
 Second term same course, mathematics
 to embrace surveying.
 The agriculture includes practical work of one hour.
 | An optional agricultural classical
 course is offered. carrying from the | agricultural-s scientific course as fol-
 lows: First class. omit physiography
 and history and enter first year Latin,
 5 hours: second class, omit physiology
 and enter Caesar, 6 hours; third class,
 omit stock lectures and agricultural
 literature. and enter Cicero. hours;
 fourth. class. omit soils and fertilizer
 and agricultural literature, and enter I Virgil. s hours.
 In the course in agriculture the stu
 dent will be required to read bulletins
 on the subjects of study, from the State stations and from the United
 States Department of Agriculture: in
 the course of English will be required
 to read college entrance requirements;
 in penmanship and orthography will
 be required throughout the course; i;
 the regulation requiring students to