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Show 92 . Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters intendent of' Public Instruction and the Biennial Reports of the United States Office of Education. This information was sup pie men ted by questionnaires. The study was limited to the senior high schools of the The grades included in these schools are not uniform, but vary from schools which include grades 7 to 12 to schools which include only grades 11 and 12. The majority, however, include grades 10 to 12. State. The years covered are from 1890 to 1945. The data cover ing the period hom 1890 to 1934 were obtained from the reports of the Commissioner of Education and Biennial Reports of the United States Office of Education. The data covering the years 1939 to 1945 were obtained from the high school reports in the Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. This investigation has shown that there are being taught in high schools of the State of' Utah four foreign languages; namely, Latin, French, German and Spanish. Latin has shown a rapid decline from 1896, when 49.4 per cent of the students in the public high schools which reported were enrolled in foreign languages. In 1945, there were only 1. 74 per cent of the students the in the public schools enrolled in Latin. In student enrollment, there has also been a decrease in Latin from the peak enrollment of 693 students in 1928 to 325 students in 1945. In French, the peak enrollment in terms of percentages was reached in 1906, with 8.3 per cent of the students in the public schools reporting enrolled in French. A decline was then registered and in 1945 only 1.36 per cent of the students enrolled were registered in French. In terms of the number of students enrolled, the peak enrollment in French was reached in 1922, when French attained its greatest popularity with an enrollment of 998 stu dents. The enrollment then declined until it was only 253 stu dents in 1945. German attained its greatest popularity in terms of percent 1910, when 21.4 per cent of the students of the public high schools reporting were registered in German. This then dropped quickly until 1922 no German was reported being taught in the public schools of Utah. It then rose slowly to 1.34 per cent in 1945. In terms of the number of students enrolled, the peak in German enrollment was reached in 1915, with 1112 students en rolled. In 1945 there were only 249 enrolled. Spanish, from a late beginning, has generally shown an in crease both in enrollment and percentage of enrollment. In 1945 there were 958 students, or 5.77 per cent of the students in the public high schools, enrolled in Spanish. It will be noticed that the decrease in enrollment in Latin 1S greater than the decrease in modern language enrollment. age in |
