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globe around a child ought to be sufficient to show him 

 the changing position of the direct rays of the sun. Lati- 

 tude and longitude should be taught in this last grade but 

 even here much of the detail must be left out. The In- 

 ternational Date Line is incomprehensible to grade-school 

 pupils and it takes a clever teacher to make it plain to a 

 high-school class. Pay more attention to comparisons of 

 various places as to latitude and longitude and less to the 

 details of number of degrees, etc. 



In short, one can take the mathematical geography as 

 outlined in our State Course of Stud}^ and make the aver- 

 age freshman in our normals and colleges Avork exceed- 

 ingly hard to master its principles. Much of it does not 

 function in the later life of the average individual. 



