This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...The high school should Function of fit for college, or more the Free properly speaking, the High School. college" ghould aceept without question the graduate who has finished in a thoroughgoing way any course of study that has emphasized strongly for four years the studies that make for culture and discipline. The ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...The high school should Function of fit for college, or more the Free properly speaking, the High School. college" ghould aceept without question the graduate who has finished in a thoroughgoing way any course of study that has emphasized strongly for four years the studies that make for culture and discipline. The effort of the high school to prepare students for the state university is laudable and necessary, and in the early efforts of a given school to bring up its work to a high plane, the stimulus of the university upon the school and upon the community is very valuable. But the time comes when the effort to fit all students for college where only one in ten of the graduates ever goes to college, is a serious handicap to the kind of work the secondary'school ought to do for the maof students. Aside from preparation for college, the function of the high school is to prepare its graduates for life, and this means a broad and generous foundation for a vocation, training for citizenship, and such beginnings of culture as four years of study upon rich material in the formative period of life under mature and largeminded teachers can bring about. The hopeful thing about it all is, as it seems to me, that all these objects can be accomplished in the best way at the same time, provided the college and university will aid and lend sympathy, rather than stand aloof and make demands. "FROM THE GREEN MEADOW." (i) "WF. LIVE IN DEEDS, NOT YEARS." The soul had not its birth in time; By time we cannot count its age; Its years ire marked by deeds sublime Recorded on life's spotless page. From meadow green, and sky of light, "Beyond the star-sown depths of space," Descending from that peaceful height, It chose the earth; its dwelling p...
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