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PUBLIC COLLEGES.
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to increase the annual supply to 100,000 kronor, which also was granted. For
State subventions to be granted, it is enjoined that the respective associations
provide an equally great amount as the State, and that political and religious
controversies or debates be excluded from the lectures. The interest in these
lectures has been constantly rising, but of course it is as yet manifesting itself
very differently in different parts. In the thinly populated country districts there
are many difficulties to be overcome.
Another result of the same modern endeavour towards popular education are
the so-called Summer oouraes at the universities. After the model of the
English »University extension» movement, there has annually, since 1893, during
the latter half of August, been given a course of lectures of a fortnight’s
duration, at Uppsala and Lund alternately, for people who are not able to profit
regularly by academical instruction. The number of partakers has in Uppsala
averaged nearly 400, of whom about two thirds were male and female common
school teachers. The enterprise is embraced with great interest and receives
support from the State as well as from communities and school Boards. In Uppsala,
these courses are now managed by an official committee appointed by the
university. — In 1902, such a »Summer course» was held also in Stockholm.
A quite original idea is the scheme, lately suggested in Sweden, of regularly
arranged courses of lectures and instruction for the conscripts during the time
that they acquit themselves of their service — the so-called Army High school.
The class-work should be led by the officers, and as lecturers and teachers should
act the officers and non-commissioned officers, conscripts of the educated classes,
as also persons called in or specially appointed for the purpose. This thought
— brought forward by T. Holmberg, manager of the People’s High school at
Tärna — arose in connection with the resolution of the Riksdag of 1901,
stipulating an extension of the conscript service from three months to eight or twelve.
The idea is highly attractive and involves grand possibilities for the future. The
new conscription law, however, not yet having been fully carried into effect, the
question of the »Army High school» is still at a stage of trial and preparation
only.
2. public colleges and corresponding
institutions.
Under this head will be considered the public colleges for boys,
supported by the State, as well as the privaté schools of the same standing,
and also the higher schools for girls, which in range of instruction closely
approach the former.
Public Colleges.
The earliest schools of learning in Sweden, as in most other
countries, were the monastery schools and the cathedral schools of the Middle
Ages, and the town schools supported by the townspeople. As the
monastery schools were closed at the advent of the Reformation, the
present public schools of Sweden have gradually evolved from the
cathedral- and town schools.
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