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changed in whole or in part, if its arrangement does not produce the 

 most satisfactory results. While this is not the place to discuss further 

 such a course of study, it m^ay be proper to state that one thing seems 

 clear in regard to such a course, that it is of advantage to see early in 

 working upon its plan. That fact is, that a course in Nature Study for 

 the elementary grades should not be a single definite series of objects, 

 one set to be used year after year in the same grade. But rather it should 

 consist of a number of possible subjects from which choice can be made 

 according to conditions governing each week of the year. The progress 

 aimed at is not so much an increasing knowledge of an arbitrarily 

 selected series of objects, as progress in seeing, thinking and express- 

 ing, and in a growth in the knowledge of and a sympathy with the 

 world about us. Respectfully submitted, 



O. P. JENKINS. 

 Stanford University, September, 1897. 



