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course of study by adding nature-study and agri- 

 culture, and about these co-ordinating the con- 

 ventional school subjects; second, to encourage 

 the co-operation of the pupils, especially for the 

 improvement of the school and its surround- 

 ings; third, to bring together for discussion and 

 acquaintance the teachers and the patrons of 

 the school; fourth, so far as possible to make 

 the schoolhouse a meeting-place for the com- 

 munity, for young people as well as for older 

 people, where music, art, social culture, litera- 

 ture, study of farming, and in fact, anything 

 that has to do with rural education, may be 

 fostered; and fifth, to expect the teacher to have 

 a knowledge of the industrial and general social 

 conditions of agriculture, especially those of the 

 community in which her lot is cast. 



