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House and they had seen her wedding presents, she gave them this signed photograph. A piano and a phonograph at one 3. Furnishings end of the room make it possible for the girls to enjoy dancing during the noon hours on three days of the week, and to have musicals on other occasions. Shelves filled with books line the 4. Library walls of a smaller office room opening off the schoolroom. On two days of the week during the noon hour, the teacher read aloud to the girls until they were able to read for themselves. Then they were permitted to take books home with them. Besides this, they have been encouraged to use the public libraries, after being shown how to make out applications for library cards. "One girl is reading 'The Promised Concrete example Land,' by Mary Antin," Miss Meyers has "human interest," tells you, "and thinks it is a wonderful as related in book. She was so much interested in the teacher's own it that I asked her to tell the others words about it. Although a little shy at first, she soon forgot herself in her eagerness to relate Miss Antin's experiences. She told the story with such dramatic effect that she quite carried away her classmates. If we had done no more than to teach this girl to read a book that meant so much to her, I believe our school would have justified its existence." Mary Antin herself accepted the Is this paragraph girls' invitation to attend the graduation out of logical order? exercises, and made a short address. The pupils' written work was exhibited V. RESULTS SHOWN BY on the walls of the room on the occasion PUPILS' WORK of the exercises, and showed conclusively the proficiency that they have attained. The greatest progress made by any 1. Italian's theme and of the pupils was probably that of an progress Italian girl. Before coming to this country, she had attended school and Example of greatest besides this she had been teaching her progress is put father at night whatever she had first learned during the day. Her short essay on her adopted country read: This country is the United States Note use of narrow of America. It is the land of freedom measure without and liberty, because the people qu
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