Congressional Serial Set Volume 3388 (Paperback)

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. 1896 Excerpt: ...to whom certaiu of the preceding remarks do not apply. They are the children of wealthy men, or of intelligent men, who desire a more systematic and thorough training for their sons and daughters than that accorded to the mere examination hobbyist. These take their studies more deliberately, remain longer in the classes, and usually have the advantage of entering the high schools at an early age, passing into them from the public schools by competitive examination. Many of these students do not enter for the university, or learned professions, or final examinations at all. They drop out sometimes to go to private or to special institutions; sometimes, especially in the case of the girls, to assume homo duties; sometimes to obtain clerkships, or assist their fathers in their respective callings. It is to bo regretted that many of tho best and brightest students thus pass away and are lost, while of those that remain a largo percentage are from the country or from the humbler classes, whose sole aim is tho teacher's certificate or tho coveted pass which admits them to tho university, aud so to the threshold of the overburdened, underpaid, and often ill-served professions. Replies Received From Mr. Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard UsivEitsiTV, Camhiudce, Mass., In Answer To A Circular Sent Out nr The Rowi (english) Commission On Secondary Education. Questions. 1. What is your experience of the education of boys and girls in the same day schools or in the same day classes? 2. What is your opinion of tho working of the system and as to the conditions most favorable to it as regards--Age of scholars f Size of tho school f 3. How best may provision bo made for the passing of the scholars from one class of school to another, and for giving aid to poor scholar...