Note 8. No class shall be organized or maintained in the first or second year of any high school unless at the beginning of the year there shall be enrolled in the class not less than twenty-five students, provided that in the second year a course, which is a continuance of a first year course, may be maintained if not less than twenty students are enrolled therein.
Note 9. No class shall be organized or maintained in the third or fourth year of any high school unless at the beginning of the year there shall be enrolled in the class not less than fifteen students, provided that no class shall be suspended unless the same subject is being given in some other high school in this city.
Note 10. When any course is given in more than one high school, there shall be uniformity in text-books, and in the content of the course of study pursued.
COURSE OF STUDY
ENGLISH.
LITERATURE COURSE.
Aims
1. To arouse an interest in the best that has been written by making students enjoy their English work.
2. By means of this interest in the best, to help develop right ideals of thought and action.
3. To train in intelligent, appreciative reading; viz., to be able to get the writer’s thought and to acquire some standards of judgment as to what constitutes true literature.