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Show MAY ADD COURSES I TO OGDEN SCHOOL I Special to The Tribune. OGDEN. Sept. II. Whether Oaden hlph school students will be held Strictly to the ftve eoutses of study tnuusuiated to (Its-place (Its-place the elective system, or will be Riven broader opportunities for obtain! na industrial in-dustrial subjects, la a question to he decided de-cided by the city board of education at a special meeting Monday evenliiK. The proposition of adding five oouraae to those already outlined by the board was presented pre-sented by m facultv committee last Friday Fri-day night, but definite action was deferred de-ferred unlit tnv est laa tlons could be made. According to the instructor, most of whom ar Interested In the Industrial subjects, only one of the five prescribed courses reptadng the elective system at the high school permit ted of anv ri eat amount of Industrial education. To ove:-come ove:-come this they offered four supplemental courses lo the Industrial course covering home economics, arts-musii-. mechanics and agriculture. ea-h outlining four yea is' work. The fifth supplemental i ourse btoadens the scope of the prescribed commercial com-mercial course. It la a i cued by those Inst ructors recommending rec-ommending the change, that the five prescribed pre-scribed courses are well designed to benefit bene-fit those students who Intend pursuing I their educational wotk In a college or university uni-versity after leaving the high school, but are not so well fitted to the appiovimate fi.i per cent of the students who take up their life's work upon completing the ; senior high school course. |