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better understanding of the meaning intended and re- 

 spect ourselves the more for it. Pupils thus trained 

 experience less difficulty in passing the Boxwell and 

 teachers' examinations. Those attending higher 

 schools find little difficulty in getting lessons which 

 seem difficult to others who are a year or two older. 

 Children, as a rule, are not slow to see things if shown 

 where, when and how to see. Observation is very keen 

 in most of our boys and girls. From a purely scientific 

 standpoint the result is marvelous, the student being 

 able to gain a knowledge not otherwise obtainable. 

 Insects, birds, plants or animals that were thought to 

 be rare or uncommon are found to be common, others 

 are becoming uncommon and rare in this locality. 

 Three instances have occurred of animals having been 

 found to exist in this locality that were heretofore un- 

 known — one snake, now in the Ohio State Biological 

 collection, the jumping mouse and a species of mole. 

 Asaresultof what we have collected and used within the 

 last school year I wnll show you 92 specimens, part of 

 which I shall present to the Ohio State University, 

 ( Presents skulls, bones, insects, biological specimens in 

 formalin and distilled water, 3 per cent, solution.) 



We teach this way because we cannot very well 

 teach any other, and in spite of our being accused of 

 making criminals, murderers, etc., we do not know 

 that any of our pupils have ever turned out as such, 

 but we can point with pride to teachers, scholars, men 

 and women with broadened minds who think it a 

 pleasure to live, and good American Citizens. 



ON ERRATIC BOULDERS IN THE VALLEY OF THE 

 ROCKY RIVER, CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO. 



By Edo Claassen. 



Although boulders of great variety, mostly origin- 

 ating in the Canadian highlands, abound in the State 



