Excerpt from The High School: A Study of Origins and TendenciesThe author has also had special opportunities to make long and careful investigation of historic secondary educa tion from many and varied sources, ancient and modern, primary and secondary.In gathering material he is under obligations for gener ous responses by educators in all parts of the country who have furnished him with their latest high school programs of studies. He is under special obligations to Mr. John Calvin Hanna, Supervisor of High Schools Of the State of Illinois, who has written the illuminating introduction, to Professor William Estabrook Chancellor, of the College of Wooster, who has read the manuscript and made valuable suggestions, and to Dr. Charles Hughes Johnston, of the University of Illinois, who has supplied an advance copy of the new terminology. For all who have thus assisted and encouraged him the author here records his warm ap preciation and thanks.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.