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attention is also given to physical culture, music, parliamentary prac- 

 tice, and social life. 



At Morrisville the courthouse and other county buildings, which 

 were turned over to the school when the county seat was transferred 

 elsewhere, have been repaired and put in readiness for the opening 

 of the school in October, 1910. These afford ample provisions for 

 the present for classrooms and an auditorium, domestic science work, 

 daily laboratory, mechanical shops, and principal's residence. Green- 

 houses will be erected near the shops. F. G. HeWar, for four years 

 head of the agricultural department of the Moody School for Boys 

 at Mount Hennpn, ]\Iass., has been elected principal of the school. 



The Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, at Lima, N. Y., established de- 

 partments of agriculture and domestic economy in the fall of 1909. 

 This institution is one of the oldest college preparatory schools in 

 western 'New York, having been established in 1829 and opened in 

 May, 1832. During all of this time it has confined its work almost 

 entirely to classical and Latin scientific courses; but more recently 

 it established an engineering preparatory course, a course in com- 

 merce, and a seminaiy course, and now it is developing courses of 

 instruction more closely related to the lives and interests of the 

 people in its vicinity. The agricultural equipment includes 80 acres 

 of land, about 60 of which is available for gardening, fniit grow- 

 ing, and general agriculture, a small herd of dairy cows, work horses, 

 and poultry. F. E. Robertson, a 1909 graduate of Cornell University, 

 was appointed professor of agi'iculture. 



TEXAS. 



Under the stimulus afforded by the new law authorizing the State 

 board of education to duplicate expenditures ($500 to $2,000) made 

 by the trustees of any public school for the establishing, equipping, 

 and maintaining of departments of instruction in agriculture, in- 

 cluding manual training and domestic economy, many schools are mak- 

 ing laboratoiy and other provisions for the effective teaching of 

 agriculture. As an example of what is being done, an illustration is 

 shown (PI. XVIII, fig. 1) of the new $125,000 high-school building 

 at Texarkana, Tex., which is supplied with laboratories and other 

 equipment for teaching agriculture, manual training, and domestic 

 science. Agxiculture is required in the seventh grade and is elective 

 in the first and fourth years of the high school. 



VERMONT. 



Just at the close of the fiscal year announcement was made that a 

 secondary school of agriculture for Vermont boys is to be opened in 



