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Title: Report
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Maryland. State Board of Education
Subjects: Education
Publisher: Annapolis (etc.)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ve to fourteen dollars. Students who pursued thereview courses only, were exempt of all fees except the registration,fee of five dollars. A total of forty-eight regularly scheduled and five special courseswere given during the session. This is an increase of thirty-five inthe total number of courses offered in the Summer Session. With theexception of the work in elementary agriculture, the courses in theCollege of Agriculture are the same as those given during the regularcollege year. The large number of courses offered makes it possible forthe student to select those subjects best adapted to the needs of his orher particular community. On account of the field work that may bedone, many of these courses may be pursued with better advantageduring the summer than during the regular college year. For the convenience of the student the courses were divided intothree groups. Group I consisted of Elementary School subjects, andincluded courses in Rural Elementary School Methods, Arithmetic,
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Annual Report op the State Board of Education 145 English, Physiology, and Hygiene, and United States History. GroupII was composed of Elementary Science and Vocational subjects, andincluded courses in Elementary Agriculture, Shop Work, FreehandDrawing, Handicraft, Domestic Science and Art, Biology, Algebra,Plane Geometry and School Library Economy. Group III constitutedthe college credit courses. The work in Group I was intended especi-ally for teachers and prospective teachers who were effected by thenew Minimum Training Law passed by the last Legislature. Withthe exception of the work in Elementary School Methods these coursesaimed chiefly to strengthen the student in the subject matter and con-sequently contained only a minimum of the theory of teaching them. It was the policy of a large number of students to pursue from oneto two courses that would strengthen them directly in their schoolwork for the ensuing year, and to fill out their schedule from thecollege credit group of stu

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