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schools. The imaginary child which each student set up for him 

 self displayed his ignorance of child life; and his processes of 

 questioning showed the limitations of his grasp of the principles 

 involved. To the student whose sympathy with childhood is 

 spontaneous and whose grasp of principles is intuitive, such drill 

 is needlessly irksome. But that the vague notions of childhood 

 and vaguer grasp of principles of most normal students can be 

 developed and trained by such courses of drill only, the subse- 

 quent twenty weeks in the practice school will abundantly dem- 

 onstrate. 



The school has been exceptionally fortunate in its social and 

 physical environments ; and no enumeration of the causes of her 



MATILDA S. COOPER. 



success can afford to omit these potent influences. The site of the 

 city, at the mouth of the Oswego River and on the shores of On- 

 tario, one of the fairest of our Great Lakes, is unsurpassed, both 

 for beauty and for commercial and manufacturing advantages. 

 Ridges which rise gently on both sides of the river near its mouth, 

 and, farther back, form bold, picturesque hills, furnish almost ideal 

 ground for a city. The place is not lacking in the charm of his- 



