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Show r Should Schools Omit Algebra, History Subjects Should U. S. high schools throw out algebra and chronological history? Francis L. Bacon, Evan-ston, Evan-ston, 111., principal and member of the new nine-man commission to reform high ' school curricula, thinks they should. Bacon's proposal quickly drew the fire of David Rankin Barbee, chairman of the Committee on American History. Said Barbee: "If the new nine-man commission is stacked against history, chronologically chrono-logically taught, the sooner the American people know it the better. bet-ter. The facts of history have to be taught in their time-perspective. Otherwise the student gets only a hazy notion of what it is all about." He has only one proviso namely, name-ly, that the 20 per cent of students stu-dents who go on to college can still take both. Buff or the 60 per cent who do not go to college or into the skilled trades, Bacon sees no value in either algebra or chronological history. Thus far the commission technically tech-nically known as the Commission on Life Adjustment Education of Youth has not made any specific recommendations. " J |