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PUBLIC COLLEGES.

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school discipline, finances, etc. In case the principal should not share the
opinion of the teachers in any question under discussion, it is referred
to the Eforus.

Instruction. The school year begins at the close of August and
extends over 36 weeks, divided into two terms: the Fall Term and the
Spring Term. The former lasts about 16 weeks; the latter about 20,
with a week of Easter and half a week of Whitsuntide vacation. The
actual number of school weeks is thus 34V». Hence the school-year is in
Sweden considerably shorter than in other European countries. Thus
it is in Denmark 43, in Prussia and Austria 42, in France 41, and in
Norway 38’/2 weeks.

Pupils belonging to the Upper Classes in the Scientific College in Stockholm.

A complete school course is calculated for nine years of work,
distributed over seven classes, of which the two highest (VI and VII)
each covers two years. The first class is the lowest. The four highest
classes are called respectively the lower sixth (VI: 1), the upper sixth
(VI: 2), the lower seventh (VII: 1) and the upper seventh (VII: 2).

In classes I—III all the students have the same courses. With
class IV the school branches into two lines: the Classical Line
(Latin-linien) with Latin, and the Scientific Line (Reallinien) without that
language. In classes IV and V, however, the difference in the
curriculum of the two lines only touches a few subjects, inasmuch as the
seven hours Latin and the one hour drawing on the classical line
correspond to six hours English and two hours drawing on the other;
the courses in history are, moreover, somewhat different, so that the

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