, 92

Murphy, Francis, 141

Music, 119

Normal schools, 45

Ocean travel, 43

Organization, 26, 125

"Overflow of instruction," 111

Physical soundness, 82, 122

Plant, the educational, 34, 35, 77

Problem, rural, 24, 36, 37, 57, 131

Profession, 57, 90

Profit-sharing, 145

Progress, lines of, 38-48

Punctuality, 73

Reaping machines, 14, 38

Renaissance, rural, 160

Responsibility, 142

Retired farmers, 23

Retirement fund, 94

Roads, better, 75

Routine, 11

Rural Commission, 9, 164

Rural schools, 49;
backward, 15, 47, 49;
buildings, 28;
course of study for, 108;
good, 36, 61;
interior, 31;
no progress in, 50;
organization, 26;
ventilation of, 29

Rural teachers, 102;
courses for, 59, 103

Salaries, 87, 96, 97

School board, 98

Scientific farming, 165; spirit, 107

Self-activity, 148, 149, 150

Social center, 74, 114, 137;
cost of, 124, 126;
as business center, 125

Spelling school, 117

Sports, 121

Standards, 54, 58, 90;
to be raised, 92

Steam engine, 42

Storm, A. V., 53

Supervision, 55, 60, 74, 127, 129;
city, 132;
county, 129, 131;
importance of, 127;
nominal, 129;
overdone, 128;
purpose of, 132

Surroundings, effect of, on children, 30, 34

Teacher, 35, 75, 77, 79, 87, 113;
chief factor, 34;
leader, 62, 114, 147;
courses for, 59, 83, 103

Terms, school, 55, 109

Textbook teaching, 104

Township system, 65, 66

Transportation of pupils, 67, 69

Urban trend, 19

Urbanized literature, 22

Value of education, 24

Ventilation, 29

Wages, 90, 96

Waste land, 160

Winter work, 14

Women's condition, 16

Work, value of, 10, 14, 157, 180;
city, 23;
farm, 12

Yearly routine, 11

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