The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-05-31
Board Announces
New Text Books
To Be Used for Next Five
Year Period-List of Books
Dropped and Those Not
Bid for Re-adoption
Given

Columbia, MAY Z4.-1ne recent
adoption Of ext books by the
State Board of Education contains
1875 titles for the next f~ive-year Pc
Rod. as compared to 14S titles used
during the present period, accord
ing to a statement given out today
by John E. Swearingen. state su-
perintendent Of education. The
statement follows:
THE list of text books adopt
ed by the State Board Of Educa-
ZION for the fve-year period. July
/. 1922. to July /. 1927, includes
195 titles. This list supersedes
the adoption of 1917, which con-
tanned las titles. Eighty-three Of
the former titles were readopted,
thirty-one We're dropped by the
state board and thirty-four were
not offered by the publishers. The
new list contains forty-seven addl-
tional titles in order to meet the
requirements Of a broadened, en-
riched and liberaliZed course Of
study. No pupil should be expect
ed or required to purchase all these
books. Discriminating teachers
are advised to require not more
than five books at a time during
any one year. The opportunity for
reading, however, has been great
ly improved by offering a number
Of supplementary texts and it is
hoped that pupils wiilabe encourag-
ed to read as much as possible.
"All old books may continue IN
class room use for the next
eighteen months, up to January l,
1924. Pupils, therefore, will have
a year and a half in which to
finish the texts now in their pos
session. The Introduction OF new
books should be a gradual process.
I'm some instances, books were
offered the board at an increase OF
more than 500 Yer cent in price.
For the new adoption as a whole,
the increase is about 40 per cent.
although scattered titles had to be
retained at double their former
cost.
Books Readopted.
Allyn & Bacon-West's Ancient
World C~revised), Vests Modern
World. Vests War and the New
Age Gree, Charaenal, Complete
French Course, Benefits New
Latin Grammar, BENEFITS New
Latin Composition, Part l; Ben
nett's Caesars Gallo War, Ben
nets Cicero's Orations. BENEFITS
Virgirs Aenoid, Smallwood, Bev-
eley & Bailey's Biology for High
Schools, Greer's School and Home
Cooking. Chew's Practical High
School Speller.
American Book Company-Web-
ster's Shorter School Dictionary,
Webs,ec's Elementary School Die
tionary. Wehster's S &c o d a ~
School Dictionary, Lewis & Hosie's
Practical English for High Schools,
Dalgleish's Grammatical Analysis,
Bexell G. Nichols Principles of
Bookkeeping and Farm Accounts,
blanks for same.
d. Appleton & Co.-Cook's Prac-
teal Chemistry for High School
Students.
Bobb's-Merrill Company-Agri-
culture, Benson & Belts Southern
Edition.
CHM & Co.-Supplementary, Hill
Readers (South Carolina editton),
Book /, Book 2, Book 3, Book 4.
Book 5; Smiths Modern Primary
Arithmetic. Smiths Modern Ad-
yanced Arithmetic, Stephenson's
American History; supplementary,
Snyder's Selections from the Old
Testament; supplementary, Fulton's
Southern Life in Southern Litera-
ture.
d. C. Heath & co.-Hilrs &
Ford,s First Spanish Course,
Joyne's & Wesselhoeft's German
Grammar, JONES Shorter German
Reader. Woolley's Handbook OF
Composition, Wells Algebra for
Secondary Schools (pocket edition.
Wells Algebra for Secondary
Schools, Part l: Wells Algebra for
Secondary Schools. Part II; Wells