The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-22
CHANGE IN BOOKS
Nearly Every Text in High
School Is New This Year.
Many New Courses Offered in
TOpeka's Schools.

Few prepared lessons will be passed
on to high school pupils this year. Dur
ing the past summer practically every
text book used in the high school was
changed. AS a result of this actlon py
the state text book commission, papers
preserved by students at the schooI
during the past five years to be passed
on to friends and relatives became
worthless.
This blow. while a crushing one, is
mitigated somewhat by the fact that
among the few old texts that are re-
taiced Marsh's algebra is included.
Other texts that will continue IN use
are Walkers Caesar, D'OOges' Cicero,
Harper and Miller's Virgil ana sew
eral German texts.
Pupils in the geometry classes dur
ing the next five years VIII study r ORC
and Ammerman's text while wells
Smiths Latin Lessons has been sub
stituted for l.. ID. Whittemores text
which was used in beginning Latin
classes during the past flVe years.
Benefits Latin Grammar will be used
by advanced classes IN Latin Span
hoofd's Elementarbuch, Bacon's Nor-
warts Carruth's German Reader and
Aliens First German Composition are
new German texts.
Change History-EcOnonnC Texts.
All history and economic texts have
been changed. The new texts are
Robinson and BreaSted's European
history, Hardings Medieval and Mod
ern History, James and Sandford's
American History. Bullock's Elements
of Economics, and Gitteaus C1Vlcs-
Black and Davis Physics and out
lines for laboratory work prepared by
the same authors will be used IN
teaching physics and Smiths text and
laboratory guide will be used by pupils
studying chemistry. Other new science
texts are Waters Agriculture and
Hessler's Elementary Science.
New Commercial Courses.
Besides changing all the texts used
in the commercial department last
year the list of books to be used this
wear is longer than that of last year
owing to the addition of several new
courses. The principal addition is the
course in craftsmanship and business
efficiency and KnoX's text going under
the same name as the new courses Will
be used. other new texts in the COM
mercial department are Van TuyFs
Commercial Arithmetic. Brigham's
Commercial Geography, Gano's Com
.nerciaI Law, Buhlig's Business Eng
lish. Zaner and Blosser's High School
Manual, Modern Illustrative Book
keeping, Lyons Bookkeeping, Outfit
Folio and Papers, Wholesale Ac-
counting and Corporation Accounting.
Seeley's School Management, Char
ter's Teaching the Common Branches
and Belts The Mind and Its Educa-
ton will be used in the normal train
ing department.
Old Grade School Texts.
With the exception of one or two
classics and an elementary United
States history, no changes have been
made in the grade school texts. The
new United States history is a text by
Gordy and will be used in the sixth
grade. Fosters United States history
which has been used by seventh and
eighth grade pupils VIII continue in
use.
Boys Physical Training.
Glasses in physical training for boys
will be organized at the high school
this term for the first time. They will
be under the direction OF w. P. Nc
Lean, who will also have charge of
physical training in the elementary
schools. Mr.. Mclean will have two
classes at the high school, one the
second period and the other during
the fifth. In addition to his duties as
physical director Mr.. Mclean will also
coach the high school football team
this year.
The work done last year by the I'M
graded classes at Grant and Harrison
schools proved highly satisfactory and
the classes will be organized again this
year. The two classes are made up of
pupils who have difficulty in one or
more subjects in their classes. In the
ungraded classes they are given spe-
cial attention. The two classes were
Orga niZed last wear for the first time