gy and Hygiene
Physical Training
Music
Foreign Languages
Differentiation of Courses
Summary

LIST OF TABLES

TABLE
1. Time given to reading and literature
2. Sets of supplementary reading books per building
3. Weeks given to reading of different books in
High School of Commerce
4. Time given to spelling
5. Time given to handwriting
6. Time given to language, composition, and grammar
7. Time given to arithmetic
8. Time given to history
9. Time given to geography
10. Time given to drawing
11. Time given to manual training
12. Time given to science, physiology, hygiene
13. Time given to physical training
14. Time given to music

PREFATORY STATEMENT

For an understanding of some of the characteristics of this report it
is necessary to mention certain of the conditions under which it was
prepared.

The printed course of study for the elementary schools to be found
in June, 1915, the time the facts were gathered for this report, was
prepared under a former administration. While its main outlines were
still held to, it was being departed from in individual schools in
many respects. Except occasionally it was not possible to find record
of such departures. It was believed that to accept the printed manual
as representing current procedure would do frequent injustice to
thoughtful, constructive workers within the system. But it must be
remembered that courses of study for the city cover the work of twelve
school years in a score and more of subjects, distributed through a
hundred buildings. Only a small fraction of this comprehensive program
is going on during any week of the school year; and of this fraction
only a relatively small amount could actually be visited by one man in
the time possible to devote to the task. In the absence of records of
work done or of work projected, unduly large weight had to be given to
the recommendations set down in the latest published course of study
manual.

New courses of study were being planned for the elementary schools.
This in itself indicated that the manual could not longer be regarded
as an authoritative expression of the ideas of the administration. Yet
with the exception of a good arithmetic course and certain excellent
beginnings of a geography course, little indication could be found as
to what the details of the new courses were to be. The present report
has had to be written