PUBLIC EDUCATION 2921

experience and professional spirit and six weeks' additional preparation in
a standard institution, and valid for assistant teachers in all State-aided
high schools of the second group and for teachers or principals in all State-
aided high schools of the third group, may be granted to persons who have
completed three years of standard college work, or the equivalent, including
six semester hours in professional subjects.

(6) A high school teacher's certificate in the special branches of music,
manual or industrial training, domestic science and art, fine and applied
arts, commercial branches or agriculture, valid throughout the State for
three years, renewable on evidence of successful experience and professional
spirit, and required in all State-aided high schools and schools rated as high
schools by the State Superintendent of Schools, may be granted to persons
who have completed a four years' high school course or the equivalent, who
have had two years of additional work of a college grade, approximately
one-third of which was in general academic subjects and approximately
two-thirds in the special branch or branches for which the special high
school certificate is issued, including as a part of their preparation not less
than two hundred recitation hours in the theory of education and in the
art of teaching their specialty. Such a certificate may also be granted to
persons having an equivalent academic and professional preparation on
examination of equivalent standard, provided that this sub-section shall not
go into effect until September first, 1919.

(7) An elementary school principal's certificate, valid throughout the
State for three years, renewable on evidence of successful experience and
professional spirit and required in all elementary schools having three or
more teachers, including the principal, may be granted to persons who have
had a four years' high school course or the equivalent; who have_completed
a two years' standard normal school course, or the equivalent, who have
had in addition not less than a full half-year's work at a recognized college
or university in elementary school methods, supervision, and administra-
tion, and who have had three years of teaching experience in the elementary
schools. Such a certificate may also be granted to persons of equivalent
academic and professional preparation on examination of equivalent
standard.

(8) An elementary school teacher's certificate of the first grade, valid
for three years in the elementary schools of the State, and renewable on
evidence of successful experience and professional spirit, may be issued to
persons who are graduates of a four years' high school or the equivalent,
and who have completed a two-year course in a standard normal school or
the equivalent. Such a certificate may also be granted to persons of equiva-
lent academic and professional preparation on examination of equivalent
standard.

(9) An elementary school teacher's certificate of the second grade, valid
for two years in the elementary schools of the State, may be issued to
graduates of standard high schools having a four years' course, or the
equivalent, on examination in reading, spelling, penmanship, arithmetic,
oral and written English, geography, history of the United States and
of Maryland, community civics, hygiene and sanitation, agriculture, music,
drawing, handwork, the theory and practice of teaching, and such other
subjects as may be required by the State Board of Education. Provided
that no applicant shall be granted such a certificate who has not completed
at least six weeks of professional preparation in a standard institution, nor
shall such certificate be issued to any person under eighteen years of age.