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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. 



