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Excerpt from The Scope and Content of the District High School A curious and interesting fact in the growth of school systems may be noted here. It is that tendency to set the newly acquired studies off by themselves. The first illustration of this may be remembered by a visit to the old Latin and English high school of Boston. This building was planned by Mr. John D. Philbrick and marked an important step toward the introduction of science into the high schools. This transition left its mark on the.build ing. The two assembly rooms on the third' floor each capable of seating 800 persons would of course serve the purpose of a modern high school by uniting them into a single room capable of seating the whole school, but it was necessary at the time of erecting this building in 1877 to provide separate rooms for the classical and mathematical students, and those taking the English and science branches. These two classes of students were not allowed to assemble together! The relation which in some locali ties still lingers between Manual Training and Commercial branches and the rest of the school existed between the Classical and Science branches thirty years ago! Manual Training High Schools and Commercial High Schools were built in various cities, containing in their curricula varying amounts of academic work. They have all succeeded and have drawn students in great numbers, but the tendency of these schools has been to add more and more of academic work to their courses till some of them already have the full high school course of study contained in other schools preparing their pupils for all courses in college. Some, like those of Denver, Kansas City, Indianapolis and St. Louis were made complete at the start and they all became immediately popular. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.