[25] The course with Latin includes 4 hours of French in the first year and 5 hours in the second; the real course offers it 4 hours in the first year, and 2 hours in the second and third years.

[26] A school law passed in 1896 omitted Latin from the course of study. Another act of the same Storthing granted privilege of offering Latin as an elective in several schools.

[27] Hall, G. Stanley, Educational Problems. Vol. I. p. 294.

[28] Plato, The Republic, p. 424.

[29] Bolton, F. E., The Secondary School System of Germany, 375.

[30] Report of Bureau of Education, 1891-1892, Vol. II. p. 807.

[31] Special Report, No. 2, 1883.

[32] Report of Commissioner of Education, 1878, p. 71.

[33] Whetham, W. C. D. and C. D., Decadence and Civilization, The Hibbert Journal, Vol. X. No. 1.

[34] Betts, G. H., The Recitation, p. 2.