The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1913-06-29
ADDITIONS TO STUDY THAT
SHOULD MEET WITH
APPROVAL.
THREE. NEW COURSES ADDED
Commercial Branches, Domestic Sci
ence and Modern Languages viii
Be Taught to Fit Students for a
Commercial Life.

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letter in 1910, submitting to the board
o. education the report of the high
school, occurs the following:
The High school, as now organic
ed, prepares one Tor the sophomore
ciass OF the leading colleges of Geor-
sla. The entire course of study is
al ranged to this end Less than 5
per cent OF the pupils enrolled in the
High school ever attend college. /
have become thoroughly convinced
that there should be a great breaking
away from the old traditional lines
OF a classical education and more at
tention paid to the preparation OF the
80 per cent of the children for life's
duties. Our course of study is edu-
eating boys and girls away from the
industrial side of life and preparing
them for very few OF the profess
sions. The school should be made
to fit the boy, and not the boy the
school, While / believe it would not
oe w4se to lower or change the col
iege preparatory course as now taught
in the schools, but with more funds
available industrial and business
courses could be offered for those
pupils who desire to take them rather
than the classical course. A large
majority of the children in the High
school never attend more than two
years of the four-year course. | be-
iieve that some short course could be
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them in these two years for life's du-
ties, rather than beginning a course
OF study which they will never be
able to complete and which will be
Of little advantage to them in after
life.
The board of education has adopt
ed the substance of this report and
hereafter the policies of the High
school Will bo entirely different to
what they have been in the past.
While nothing will be dropped and
the standard of efficiency in the clas-
sical course heretofore maintained
will not be decreased, there will be
three new departments to the High
school, viz: Commercial, domestic
science and modern languages.
Commercial Department.
The board has selected Mr. A. r.
Burke, OF Baltimore, to have charge
Of the commercial branches. He is
splendid penman, especially trained
in the Palmer system, the one used
in the Brunswick schools, and he will
have supervisory charge Of this de-
partment in all the schools. 1t is
expected that the handwriting of the
children will be materially improved
by this. Also, he is a well trained
commercial teacher and will have
charge of the branches of commercial
arithmetic, bookkeeping, commercial
geography, commercial law, stenogra-
ply and typewriting. This department
will be equipped with suitable desk,
tables and modern typewriters. Here
after the Brunswick boys and girls
will have an opportunity of obtaining
a good business education without
the necessity of leaving the city.
Domestic Science.
The board has selected Miss Cor
della Glanton to have charge of this
department. She Is a Georgia woman,
a graduate of Columbia university,
with several years experience at
Winthrop college as teacher of domes-
equipped with all the modern appli-
ances that go to make up a first-class
equipment 1t would include the sub
jects of sanitation, hygiene, practical
and theoretical cooking, the domestic
arts, as sewing and dress making in
short, it will be home making de-
partment, which has been so sadly
neglected in our school curriculum.
Modern Languages.
Spanish is the modern language Sc
lected to be taught and emphasized.
Today, for an American, it is the most
important of all foreign languages to
acquire. A young man with coed
address Sand thorough knowledge OF
Spanish land the commercial branches
has an hsset of from $1,000 to &c.,
900 per near. 1t is a fact that Ameri-
ca must Improve her trade relations
with the countries south OF us. 1t
has been found absolutely necessary
that the dgents sent to these coun-
tries havey a good command of the
Spanish language. csat r. Torras
will have ch$Tge of this department.
oAner Changes. n
Heretofore Ito be able to graduate
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