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qualifications of teachers, methods of instruction, conditions of 

 admission and employment of pupils and expenditures of money, 

 while immediately in charge of the local school authorities, 

 should be subject to supervision and approval by the Board 

 of Education. 



G. More Advanced Training. A student who had decided 

 to go to college should find the same opportunities open for 

 preparing himself for college entrance as does the student in the 

 separate agricultural school. An unusually capable boy might 

 carry a course in mathematics or a foreign language in the reg- 

 ular classes of the school while taking his agricultural course. 

 On completion of his agricultural course, one additional year 

 of study would perhaps suffice for completing his college pre- 

 paratory work. 



Up to this point this report has discussed the farming sit- 

 uation in Massachusetts that seems to justify a system of 

 agricultural education for the Commonwealth, the types of vo- 

 cational schools in agriculture that seem to be advisable for such 

 a system, and the standards which should be insisted upon in 

 order to make their work effective. 



