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institutes nor better results from institute wort 

 than Wisconsin and Ohio. Skill, intelligc -c, 

 and tact count for more than particular I 

 tutions. 



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New York may be said to follow the Wiscc m 



plan. Minnesota goes even a step far 

 instead of holding several series of instif :J £ 

 simultaneously in different parts of the str- r <% 

 attended by different "crews," the whole 6 ,>> 

 of state speakers attends every institute. !J'Ts 

 set programmes are arranged. Everything 1 de- 

 pends upon local conditions. This system" is 

 expensive, but under present guidance very 

 effective. Michigan, Indiana, and Pennsyl- 

 vania have adopted systems which are a mean 

 between the plan of centralization and the plan 

 of localization. Illinois has a plan admin. ^ 

 designed to encourage local interest, while pro- 

 viding for central management. 



Few other states have carried institute work 

 so far as the states already named, and in some 

 cases there seems to be a prejudice against a 

 well-centralized and fully-developed system — 

 a feeling that each locality may be self-sufficing 

 in institute work. But this attitude is wearing 

 away, for experience serves to demonstrate fully 

 the value of system. The danger of centraliza- 



