ration of entire
meals. The girl who finishes the domestic science course in the Lowville
Academy is competent to organize a home, cook, sew, keep house and make
as efficient use of her opportunities as does her brother who has been
trained in mechanics or agriculture.

It is not in the applied courses alone that an extraordinary amount of
co-operation has been attained. The academic branches, likewise, are so
adjusted as to bear directly upon the work of the remaining courses. The
Academic co-ordination is particularly noticeable in the English work,
which is required of everyone during the entire high school course.
English composition is made to serve as a connecting, co-ordinating
study--related to all of the other courses in the school.

The student in agriculture writes reports on various phases of
agricultural work, collecting them in a folder and arranging them in
order, according to subject. Chemistry reports, history reports, all
are made a legitimate part of the work in English.

The results of this system have been more than satisfactory to Mr.
Breeze and his staff of co-workers. Students who would have left at the
end of the grammar school, are attracted by the high school program, and
"saved" by a high school course. The appeal of the school is a wide one.
There are no class of boys and girls in Lowville who cannot find
something worth while in the high school. Often a student otherwise not
brilliant will succeed remarkably in a particular line. Of one such boy
in particular Mr. Breeze spoke.

VI One Instance of Success

"He had no taste for Greek, but his reports and analysis in agriculture
and mechanics were brilliant. The excellent drawing and sketching and
the careful work showed how much appeal the applied course had made to
his mind; yet but for the agricultural course he would never have come
to high school. A farmer's son with little taste for the ordinary
academic studies was inspired by the idea of improved, scientific
farming and was getting a thorough insight into the principles of
agriculture, chemistry, physics, and mechanics, which will be of the
greatest service to him when he takes up farming. Such topics as judging
the age of cows, breed of cattle, cost of milk production, the cost of
cow-barn construction, grain, hay, cattle rations, silage, and nutrition
will all bear directly on the work of the farm in which he is so deeply
interested.["]

So much for the contribution of the L