RULE 115. No member shall speak more than five minutes at any one time on any motion under discussion, nor more than once until all other members choosing to speak shall have spoken, nor more than twice to the same question, without consent of the Board.

RULE 116. No member shall be interrupted whilst speaking, unless by a call to order. If a member be called to order, he shall immediately take his seat until the point is decided by the chair.

RULE 117. No member shall leave the Board before the close of the session, without permission of the president.

RULE 118. All resolutions and orders of the Board contrary to, or inconsistent with, any of the foregoing rules are hereby repealed.

RULE 119. None of the foregoing rules shall be repealed or altered unless two-thirds of all the directors vote for the repcal or alteration, nor unless upon motion made in writing, for that purpose, at the previous meeting of the Board; but a rule of order may be suspended for the time being, by a three-fourths vote of all the members present.

RULES AND REGULATIONS

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE

ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS

RULE 130.-COURSE OF STUDY.

SECTION I. In the schools under the control of the Board, all lessons shall be taught with a careful reference to the capacity of the child, and in the order of their immediate usefulness. Each lesson shall be taught in such a manner as to develop in a child the capacity of reasoning, to-wit: in the several steps of attention, perception, comprehension, definition, deduction and application. The teacher shall encourage questions, and take all pains to avoid words and sentences not understood by the child; all objects of instruction shall be illustrated, as far as possible, by natural things; next, by models, pictures, or diagrams; and, in case of topics not relating directly to nature, the theme should be made clear by application to practical examples, real events, and the institutions of society; and all teachers shall require from their pupils frequent reproductions of past lessons, such reproductions to be oral or in writing, and, whenever practicable, by draught and tabular views, indicating the analysis of the subject.

SEC. II. There shall be four courses of study:

1. The Normal School course.

2. The High School course.

3. The District School course.

4. The O'Fallon Polytechnic Institute course.

SEC. III. The course of study in the Normal School shall be strictly professional, and limited to one year.

It shall embrace the following studies, including the modes of teaching the same in each case: Arithmetic, Geography, English Grammar, Latin, Reading and Elocution, Composition, Vocal Music, Drawing and Penmanship, Human Anatomy and Physiology, Constitution of the United States, Algebra, History, Geometry, Mental Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, English Literature, and Theory and Art of Teaching.

SEC. IV. The High School course of study shall cover a period of four years, and shall constitute a general and a classical course, as at present arranged, subject to such modifications as the Board shall direct.

It shall embrace the following studies: Arithmetic, Algebra, English Analysis, Latin, Drawing, Geometry, Greek, Physiology, Ancient Geography, Astronomy, Universal History, English Literature, Constitution of the United States, Vocal Music, Rhetorical Exercises, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Book-keeping, Analytical Geometry, Trigonometry, Geology, Zoology, Shakespeare, History of Art, French, German, and Mental and Moral Philosophy, arranged so as to form a general and a classical course, as hereinafter provided. [See Rule 141, sec. 2.]

SEC. V. The District School course of study shall be divided into eight grades, each grade including an average year's work, as nearly as may be, and the whole to constitute a thorough course in the following branches: Reading, Spelling, Writing, Drawing, Vocal Music, Descriptive and Physical Geography,

Mental and Written Arithmetic, English Grammar, History and Constitution of the United States, Composition, outlines of general History and outlines of Physics and Natural History. German shall be elective in such district schools as are designated by the Board from time to time. But no Anglo-American pupil shall be allowed to commence the study of German above the lowest grade unless he is able to pass a satisfactory examination in the work of the previous grades, and no pupil shall be allowed to discontinue the study of German, after having selected the same, except with the consent of the superintendent.

SEC. VI. The O'Fallon Polytechnic Institute shall include, first, an elementary course in the ordinary branches-Reading, Writing, Spelling, Arithmetic, Outlines of Physics and Geography-conducted in such schools as the Board shall establish from year to year, for the benefit of such of the industrial population of the city as have no facilities for availing themselves of the day-schools; secondly, a higher course, including the following studies: Line-Drawing, Higher Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Chemistry, Natural Philosophy, English Grammar, the German Language, and Book-keeping, and such other branches of technological instruction as may be required by a sufficient number of pupils to form a class.

RULE 131.-CLASSES OF SCHOOLS.

SECTION I. The Normal School course shall be conducted in a separate school, established for the training of teachers for the St. Louis Public Schools.

SEC. II. The High School course shall include the last four grades of the Public School course, and shall be conducted in the Central High School, and in its branches established at the Polytechnic building and at the Franklin, for the instruction of the pupils in the first year of the High School course. These branch High Schools shall be under the control and management

of the principal of the Central High School, and the persons having immediate charge of the branches shall be known as assistant principals of the High School.

SEC. III. The district schools shall be divided into seven classes, as follows:

1. First-class schools to include all schools entitled to eighteen or more regular assistants, by the quotas of pupils defined in Rule 132.

2. Second-class schools to include all schools entitled to thirteen, and not more than seventeen, assistants.

3. Third-class schools to include all schools entitled to ten, and not more than twelve, assistants,

4. Fourth-class schools to include all schools entitled to eight or nine assistants.

5. Fifth-class schools to include all schools entitled to five, six, or seven assistants.

6. Sixth-class schools to include all schools entitled to four or five teachers.

7. Seventh-class schools to include all schools entitled to less than four teachers.

Whenever supervisory control over other schools of lower grade is assigned to the Principal of a second-class or a thirdclass school, the class of such school shall then be determined by the number of assistants to which it is entitled, including the assistants, other than principals not in charge of rooms in the schools supervised.

In all cases in the classification of schools one assistant shall be counted for each room used for kindergarten instruction.

SEC. IV. Schools in sparsely settled districts, where it is necessary to assign pupils of more than two grades to one room, shall be classed as follows:

1. Third-class schools to include all schools entitled to four or more assistants.