. Tuskegee & its people: their ideals and achievements . nglish and in Mathe-matics. ^lathematics represents the group of academicstudies which possess direct technical value forthe industries: moreover, it is a pretty good indexof the grades compreliended in the Academic De-partment. In the lowest class in the day-school—there is one lower in the night-school—the arith-metical tables are mastered, and fractions intro-duced and developed with the use of liquid, dry,surface, and time measures: whereas in the Seniorclass algebra is studied through quath-atics andplane geometry through the area o
. Tuskegee & its people: their ideals and achievements . nglish and in Mathe-matics. ^lathematics represents the group of academicstudies which possess direct technical value forthe industries: moreover, it is a pretty good indexof the grades compreliended in the Academic De-partment. In the lowest class in the day-school—there is one lower in the night-school—the arith-metical tables are mastered, and fractions intro-duced and developed with the use of liquid, dry,surface, and time measures: whereas in the Seniorclass algebra is studied through quath-atics andplane geometry through the area of is to say. the lowest day-school class is aboutequivalent to a fourth grade hi the Xorth. and theSenior to the tirst or the second year (barrmg theforeign languages! in a Northern high school. Despite a much smaller time-allotment, our stu-dents, roughly speakmg, keep pace with Xorthernstudents because they are older and somewhat moreserious, because the course is shortened by theelimination of uselessly perplexing topics hi anth-er. y. o y THE ACADEMIC AIMS metic like compound proportion and cube root, butchiefly because the utihty of mathematics is madevivid, and vigorous interest aroused by its immedi-ate apphcation in class-room and shop to problemsarising in the industries. Our students are notstuffed like sausages with rules and definitions,mathematical or other; they ascend to general prin-ciples through the analysis of concrete cases. English serves to represent the group of studiesthat exert a liberalizing influence upon the student,that possess a cultural rather than a technical oral lessons in language in the lower classes,the students advance to a modicum of technicalgrammar in the middle of the course, and hence tothe rhetoric of the Senior year. Moreover, an un-usually large amount of written composition is in-sisted upon, the compositions being used not merelyto discipline the student in chaste feeling, consecu-tive thinking, and ef
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