Ohio University bulletinSummer school, 1909 . ALBERT A. ATKINSON, M. S. Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering ceived the larger part of the state appropria-tion of $45,000 for the aid of weak districts—those where local revenues from taxation wereinsufficient to maintain schools the period re-quired by law and to pay teachers the mini-mum monthly salary of $40. It may be said that young people unable tosecure high-school advantages at home shouldseek them in the nearest high-school and notask the state to meet their wants by establish-ing a school for them in its higher institutionso
Ohio University bulletinSummer school, 1909 . ALBERT A. ATKINSON, M. S. Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering ceived the larger part of the state appropria-tion of $45,000 for the aid of weak districts—those where local revenues from taxation wereinsufficient to maintain schools the period re-quired by law and to pay teachers the mini-mum monthly salary of $40. It may be said that young people unable tosecure high-school advantages at home shouldseek them in the nearest high-school and notask the state to meet their wants by establish-ing a school for them in its higher institutionsof learning. If this suggestion were sound intheory it would yet fail utterly in young people in school districts without 28 OHIO UNIVERSITY BULLETIN. A Portion of the Interior of the Carnegie Library high-school advantages usually grow intomanhood or womanhood before they realizewhat of educational misfortune their local en-vironment has brought them. With an awak-ened thirst for knowledge they find themselvesof an age where with reluctance they wouldtake place with the pupils of the averagehigh-school. It is within bounds to say thatwere the Preparatory School of Ohio Univer-sity abolished not one in three of its studentswould seek educational advantages elsewhere—surely not in any city high-school. Theseyoung people, as a rule, are of bodily vigor,of advanced age, and of general power and in-clination to do much more and better workthan the average boy or girl admitted to thehigh-school under the system of school class-ification than obtain in cities. That is whythey can complete the equivalent of a four-year high-school course in three years—theSummer term offering them opportunity forsix additional weeks of study each year.
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