The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-07-03
TEXT BOOKS ADOPTED
FOR HIGH SCHOOL USE
Prices Uniformly Lower Than
Under Old System

at uniformly lower price for the book
than has been paid under the old system
Of each High School purchasing its owl
books. The adoption. which was made
after week 5 hearing by the commits.
sion, is the first uniform adoption foi
High Schools in the State. There has
been some doubt as to the authority oi
the commission to make such an adop-
ton, but the question was referred to
Attorneys General Frank M. Thompson,
and in written opinion he held that il
was the duty of4he commission to make
the adoption.
Many Of the books adopted for uni
form use have been in the various High
Schools Of the STATE but the uniform
adoption will enab| the pupils to get
the same books ! lower prices than
when each schof made its own adop-
ton.
The members Of the textbook COM
mission are Gov. Hooper, chairman;
M H. Gamble. @. L. McMahan, G. G.
Hanson and H. II. Thompson.
The books adopted for the High
Schools, and the prices to be paid fol-
low:
Contract Exc'ge
Book and Publisher Price. Price.
Grammar Stanford q Brown
ID. G. Heath & Co. so. SO $0.31
American Literature (Hal-
leck) American Book Co. 1.13 0.56
English Literature (Hal-
leck) American Book Co. LII O.5S
English Classics (MacMillan
Co. 0.22
Arithmetic (Stone-Mills), B.
III. Sanborn Co. ---- 0.55 OPT
Algebra Stone MilIs), b.. HI.
sanborn Co. ---------.- O.55 O.27I
Geometry, pin. (Wentworth)
CHM ( %. --z,-------- OH o.s5
Solid lWentworth) CHM & j.
Co. o.--------r--------- OIL o.S5
Plane and solid (combined),
. CHM 1 Go. - -. 1.ls o.5s
Trigonometry (Wells), d. @.
Heath 4 6o.,.---7---..-- o.e7 o.8s
Speller, high school speller,
Rand-McNally Co. 0.15 0.07l
Common Words, commonly
misspelled; B. f. johnson
Go. --,--z----------. O.22 Oil
Song Book Lawrence & /
Peaces) Rand McNalIy Co O.4O O2OI
Latin, Benefits grammar
(Allyn & Bacon) -------- O.8O O.40l
First year Latin, Pearson's
essentials, A. B. CO. O.S1 0.40I
Prose Composition, Pear
sons, A. b. Co. O.9O O.45
Caesar lWalker), Scott, For
esman 4 Co. -1---- o.s7 o.4s
cicero (D'Ooges), B. H. San
born Go. o.s7 o.44l
Iirgil (Knappas), Scott, For
esman & Co. I.2I T0.6OI
'hysics (Hoadley's) Ameri- II,
can Book Co. ---- 1.13 O.56 I,
(Hessler 4 Smith)
B. II. Sanborn Co. --- 1.25 O.62
(Richie's) World
Book Co. o.-------- O.6O O.3Oll
PHYSICAL Geography dry !
er'sl 0.90 0.45
Biology bailey & Coleman)
Macmillan Go. - 1.1o o.55 |
'otany Bergen & CALDWELL I
CHM / Co; ;.-4------.-- 1.82 o.ee !
agriculture (Warren), Mac
MILAN CO, co,--z---z,--- o.so o.45
'rawing (Angsburg), Ed
Hub Co. (paper) ------- OPS
'rawing (Angsburg), Ed IN
Hub Co. (cloth) -------- O.60
domestic Science, MacMil-
Ian Co; o.so o.4O :
.ncient history, Macmillan II
CO. CO.s--------------- 1.36 O.67I
erfnan, grammar Collar, Il
CHM u Co. -- 0.94 O.47 Q
erman classics Immensee) i
CHM & Co. ---------- OBS lis
luchauf, Ginn q Co.---- O.56
ermenshauspen, CHM &
Co. ------------------- o.s6
iober Ais Die Kirche, CHM
& co.-------- Co. O.2s y
rench, reader ERASER e +
Quair) D. 9. Heath Co. 1.1o o.55 il
asy French, d. @. Heath i
Go. ---------- o.54 o,27 ! !
eader (Douay's) silver ?
Burdett CO; o;-,----.-- o.9o o.45 f
edieyal and Modern his es
tory (Myers) CHM q CO. IA O.70l M
sneral history Myers j.
CHM 4 CO. --z- Ia o.7o b b
lglish history (Kniyer) Z I,
American Book Co.. 0.S1 0.40 l.
nerican history Games e :"
scribners 1890 1.81 0.61
vi government, Scribners O.84 0.42
'okkeeping montgomery
Merrill 4 Go. ------- O.72 0.s6 be
The rhetoric adoptions have not yet r
% completed. Brooks Rhetoric, h
blished BY the American Book Com Fl
ny, has been adopted for use in the e e.
ondary schools at price Of IS cents.
V, and 81 cents, exchange For