360p SCHOOL CIVICS AN OUTLINE STUDY OF THE ORIGIN By exchange from COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY FRANK DAVID BOYNTON ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 55.9 The Athenæum Press GINN & COMPANY. PRO- PREFACE IN 1901 a Syllabus of Civics for the use of grammar schools was published. The Syllabus was followed by the publication of a Library Manual of Civics. This larger book is an expansion of the Syllabus as outlined in the Library Manual. The chapters that occur in it, together with the library references and questions given at the end of each chapter, are practically the same as may be found in the Manual. For two years the Manual has been in the hands of large classes studying civics. A special edition of the present work was published in pamphlet form and used in the classroom during the school year 1903-4. The book tells the story of our government in such a manner as to make the difficult subject of civics possible of comprehension to the average grammar or high school pupil. The story is told as it was made, historically. It begins back far enough to show clearly the relations of our government to earlier forms, and follows the various steps through which our government has passed in its evolution from a few disassociated bands of colonists to its present dignity as the world's greatest republic. The text of the book is intended to be sufficiently full to prepare pupils for college entrance, regents' and teachers' examinations. In the larger schools where libraries are accessible it is recommended that pupils be required to look up some of the library references on each chapter, in order that they may become acquainted with various views and thus gain a broader knowledge than any one book can give. The questions have been selected with care from all available sources and should be studied. The bibliography is merely suggestive. It might be much larger, but it will be found a reliable guide to the pupil and to schools desiring to enrich their libraries upon this subject. The chapter on Politics and Political Parties, while somewhat of a departure in a text-book on civics, is fully warranted by the growing importance of these matters in the management of our government. Many questions arise in a civics class that should be freely debated by members of the class formed into opposing sides. In the preparation of the book the author has received much valuable help from teachers of civics in different parts of the country, and from lawyers and statesmen to whom he has frequently applied for specific information. Special acknowledgments are due to Mr. D. C. Knowlton, A.B., for the excellent service he has rendered, and to Mrs. Gertrude Shorb-Martin, Ph.D., who has been especially efficient in composition and proof-reading. Ithaca, N.Y., 1904. |