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suitable lecturers and instructors for the same on or be- 

 fore the first day of September of each year. It shall be 

 the further duty of this committee to devise means to 

 defray the expenses incurred for lecturers and instruc- 

 tors. All meetings shall be public, and no charge for 

 admission shall be made, except by order of the executive 

 committee. 



Article VI. — Course of Reading 



Section i. The executive committee may also rec- 

 ommend a course of reading to be pursued by members, 

 and it shall be their duty to make such other recommenda- 

 tions from time to time as shall have for their object 

 the more effective carrying out of the purposes of the 

 association. 



Whether the Oceana County plan of a set 

 annual meeting or the Kent County plan of 

 numerous itinerant meetings is the better one 

 depends much on the situation. It is not im- 

 probable that itinerant meetings, with an annual 

 " round-up' ' meeting of the popular type as the 

 great event of the school year, would be very 

 satisfactory. 



Other counties in the state have taken up the 

 Hesperia idea. In some cases associations 

 similar to the Kent County association have been 

 developed. More recently the work has fre- 

 quently been carried on by the county commis- 

 sioner of schools directly. " Institutes on wheels" 



