Proceedings Of The Annual Meeting Of The Southern Association Of Colleges And Secondary Schools PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...college" felt the sharp thrust of local demand for the practical; it heard the voice of the thousands, where the college heard only tens. Properly, courses were modified, new types of schools appeared, mechanic arts or polytechnic courses and schools, commercial or business public high schools supplemented the older classical or Latin schools, and the end is not yet. The impulse of interest has served to carry on into the specialized high school a larger percentage of students than heretofore, and the registration in secondary schools has passed the million mark. Until recently the concessions of the college in the way of more liberal entrance requirements were comparatively few. In the transitional stage even the colleges for engineering and similar new divisions of the curriculum held to an entrance schedule of the traditional type. The high schools, struggling to exercise the same freedom as the colleges in the diversification of their curricula, complained sharply of the domination of the secondary schools by the colleges and universities, and squarely asserted the equivalence in disciplinary and cultural values of the newer subjects, at least science, modern language, and history, with the classics and mathematics. Open warfare was waged against Greek in at least one Northwestern State, where the inspector of high schools is said to have set out deliberately _and avowedly to banish Greek from every public high school in the State, and after years of campaigning achieved his purpose. The last decade has witnzwsed a remarkable liberalizing of the requirements for admission to colleges and universities of the country, especially the State-supported institutions, whose relations with the high schools are probably more direct, if...