Excerpt from Outlines of Courses of Study: Revised Prospectus The fifth edition of the Educational Prospectus having become exhausted, it is necessary to issue its successor, and this has required a great deal of time and effort on the part of many experienced Association men and educational authorities. The former issue contained outlines and suggestions from experience, for thirty-three subjects and courses, while the present issue, or sixth edition, includes similar material for one hundred and fifteen. In gathering and arranging these outlines, from the best work of the kind among employed men and boys, the Committee has striven to make the result so valuable and practical that no educational director, general secretary, or teacher, can expect to do his best work without becoming familiar with the material of this book. For their patient and helpful cooperation in this work, the Committee is under obligation to the various International examiners, especially to Dr. T. M. Balliet, Prof. L. Rouillion, Prof. W. S. Perry, Prof. A. D. F. Hamlin, Prof. A. L. Williston; also to a number of the educational directors, especially A. G. Book waiter, G. B. Landis, J. G. Perkins, B. B. Farnsworth, R. P. Kaighn, A. D. Dean. This book will serve each Association best, not when its outlines are slavishly followed, but when it is used as the outlines direct and as per the suggestion below. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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