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The Rise and Demise of the Latin SchoolProject Editor: Kimberly Kraska, UCARE, 2007 Project Editor: Kimberly Kraska, UCARE, 2007
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We hear it intimated, not officially how ever, that the preparatory department is to be abolished. At present it comprises a course of two years. Let any one take a catalogue and glance over the studies required in this department and then say, if he can, that they ought to find a place in a University. What have Elementar [sic] Physics, Chemistry and Algebra, Hygiene, Physiology and Grammar to do with a state University? If this institution is the High School of Lincoln, we have
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nothing further to say, but grant they ought to be taught. If, however, it is the State University of Nebraska, its dignity is humbled, its powers weakened, its usefulness crippled by throwing open its doors to children, to those who by right belong in the high schools of the state.
The STUDENT heartily concurs in any plan that tends to elevate the University to its proper level. It is of the opinion that this is no place for downright hard work such as those only well along in their teens and twenties are capable of doing. The first preparatory year can well be abolished. There may be longer need of the second. It is of a more substantial character.
Source:Hesperian Student
RG 38/01/02
Periodical: Microfilm Roll: 1
Date: December 15, 1881
Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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