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ment. Contact with those children, with normal school students 

 and educators at Kirksville, as well as with country teachers, 

 school officers and parents in the field where I did much exten- 

 sion work, revealed conditions and needs that impressed me 



East wall, 1912. Note stove in middle of room, wired stovepipe, broken ceiling, hanging 

 wall paper, height of blackboard, location of flue, arrangement of furniture and other 

 equipment. Woodwork painted a blue gray and badly soiled. 



