CORNELL 



R^ural ScKool Leaflet 



[FOR THE TEACHER] 



Published monthly by the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, from 

 September to May, and entered as second-class matter September 30, 1907. at the Post Office at 

 Ithaca New York, under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. L. H. Bailey, Director 



ALICE G. McCLOSKEY, Editor 



Professors G. F. WARREN, CHARLES H. TUCK, and MILTON PRATT JONES, Advisers 



Vol. 



ITHACA, N. Y., MAY, 1909 



No. 9 



•&tratgl?t mtttf fyf I|all| raugitt ntm pltasmta 

 Philat ftje laitiiBrapp rounb it mmsutts; 

 SuBSft lamitH. attb falbma gra^, 

 W\)srt tijp ntbhltng florks bn Btrag, 

 HJountatttH. on ml^ast faarrpn hr^aat 

 SIhf lab'rtng rlouifl ba nftptt rsHt; 

 ineali0ui0 trtttt uritij hatstpH pub, 

 Biinllova brnoks, attb riwfrH tnilif." — John Milton 



" Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures " 



NOTES 



A long vacation is before us. The children go back to their homes 

 to work or to play as the case may be. Teachers will be able to do 

 much even in a few simple lessons to direct in a measure the activities 

 of the boys and girls during the summer. One great value in Nature- 

 Study is the wholesome resource it gives to the boy and the girl. An 

 interest in the out-of-doors grows in the child-mind if it can be given, 



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