[23] Law for City Schools, Sec. 4. [24] An organization providing a series of weekly lectures by men of prominence from various places, for the populace and especially adapted to the working classes. [25] The course with Latin includes 4 hours of French in the first year and 5 hours in the second; the _real_ course offers it 4 hours in the first year, and 2 hours in the second and third years. [26] A school law passed in 1896 omitted Latin from the course of study. Another act of the same Storthing granted privilege of offering Latin as an elective in several schools. [27] Hall, G. Stanley, Educational Problems. Vol. I. p. 294. [28] Plato, The Republic, p. 424. [29] Bolton, F. E., The Secondary School System of Germany, 375. [30] Report of Bureau of Education, 1891-1892, Vol. II. p. 807. [31] Special Report, No. 2, 1883. [32] Report of Commissioner of Education, 1878, p. 71. [33] Whetham, W. C. D. and C. D., Decadence and Civilization, The Hibbert Journal, Vol. X. No. 1. [34] Betts, G. H., The Recitation, p. 2. [35] Hall, G. Stanley, Educational Problems, Vol. II., p. 295. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The School System of Norway, by David Allen Anderson