Excerpt from The Intermediate Department

"Entering the years of mystery, " some one has characterized the beginning of the period when the boy emerges into early adolescence. It is a good phrase, they are years of mystery, and only that, for the boy, for it is a new way to him, full of new sensations, years of mystery, too, for many of his elders, for they have failed to become acquainted with the significance of the period.

Somewhere between childhood and manhood the boy must pass over the bridge which separates the two. Granted that this transition period covers all the years from twelve to twenty-four, it yet remains that the span of the bridge is more clearly discerned in the years from twelve to fifteen. We may call this period early adolescence, the years immediately following, to twenty, middle adolescence, and the years beyond, to twenty-four, later adolescence. But the scientific terms need amplification in the fight of the problems of the Intermediate teacher.

What factors, then, enter into the task which this teacher assumes when he faces a class of boys of twelve, thirteen, or fourteen?

In the first place, it is usually well to group boys of twelve, thirteen, and fourteen together and those of fifteen, sixteen, and seventeen together.

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