Advertising the cities' great-
ness, 166; legitimate, 169;
as related to her farms, 173
Affection of children, 231, 232
Affiliations, church and
Y.M.C.A., 165
Agriculture, prevailing type of,
87, 249, 264
Agricultural college, 87
Anger, 41

Arithmetics, adopted because
of excellent rules, 207
Army of the unemployed,
Chicago, Philadelphia, and
St. Louis, 166, 167
Arrested development, 181
Attitude, personal or objec-
tive, 61; objective, 78
Automobiles, 35

Burns, 31-33
Busy work, 48

C

Calvin, John, 65
Chemistry, 71

Christmas tree, 142, 143, 146;
gifts, 144

Church, agency to civiliza-
tion, 92; opposition to, 93;
a passive membership in, 15;
rural, 87, 97, 103
Cicero, 64

City, drift of rural people to,
234; schools, superiority of,
236; teacher, 19, 162; un-
attractiveness, 161, 255;
wrong in permitting bad
labor conditions, 169

Closing school with a song, 62
Community center, 86, 94, 96,
178, 179

Community interests, 152, 157
Conditions which we should
improve, 154

Conduct, bad, rewarded with
a smile, 42

Conferring with parent, 291
Consolidation, 256, 257, 260;
arguments in favor of, 262,
263; questionnaire regard-
ing, 261
Constad's

Crossing, 36;
Crossing "tree," 143; Cross-
ing school house, 86; Cross-
ing neighborhood, 87,97; re-
ligious harvest, 88

Country, the ideal place, 151
Country, picnic, a, 179; the
dinner at, 180

County superintendent, 55;
how elected in the county
plan, 269

County system, 257, 259;
method of control in, 269;
method of control in 39
states, 271

Courses of study introduced
after decades of agitation,
233, 256, 272
Criminal, the, 108

Culture and work have been
differentiated, 240

Culture, lack of, 245; oppor-
tunity for, 162
Curriculum, suggested, 276,
281; often the mistake, 282
Currying favor, 39

D

Daughters, bossing the board,
43

Demands upon farmers' time,
136

Desire to excel, 178
Development arrested, 123
Dickens, as an educator, 45,
115

Dick Holmes, 50
Dictionary, 60, 83, 89
Discipline, kept even or level,
50; girls amenable to, 58, 68;
negative, 123; plead for a,
286

Dismissal, orderly, 52
District system, 257-259

Easy steps to learning, 212;
importance of, 93; new, 120
Education, higher, 71, 260; a
common school, enough for
my son, 236; not for the
avoidance of work, 240; not
measured by yards, 246;
more than a local interest,
259; State Department of,
268
Educational purposes, 90
Educators, reducing schools to
machines, 177

Employee, not in a position to
see the other side, 41

Employment, futile attempts
to secure, 168

Enthusiasm of youth, 38
Environment, determines dis-
position, 74

Examination, teachers', 190
Exhibitions, school, 174; not
literary or artistic, 176; de-
noted year's success, 178
Experience, a teacher's, 161;
a personal, 189, 190

F

Failures in life, not all among
the poor, 225

Farm, back to the, 160; oppor-
tunity to remain on, 234
Farmer, dependent socially,
106; as manager, 138
Farming, scientific, 87; an ex-
acting business, 137; offers
time for improvement, 233
Farm life, unattractiveness
grows less, 169

Father and Mother Rose, 29,

33, 92, 99, 154, 155, 183, 199

Mark Tapley, more than an

ordinary man, 45

Marshalls, 31, 34.
Martin Chuzzlewit, 45

Massachusetts, district sys-

tem, 258

Mastering myself, 44
Mathews, 31, 34
McGuire, Mollie, 60
McKinley, President, 140
Memories of happy days, 183
Men, like hogs, 41; emigration
of rural young, 159; loss of
character, 1, 160, 184
Methods of work, order in, 37
Mistakes in attempting to
teach, 189; in reading, 195;
in arithmetic, 200
Mixed schools, 155
Money, drawing public funds
for private use, 26
Morals must be protected, 187
Moral support of school board,

Palmer, George Herbert, 33
Parental responsibility in rural
places, 253

Pauper, whom nobody owns,
156; criminal and, 159
People, rural and urban-
differentiating between, 158
Periscope, not needed, 23
Physics, 71

Play, without opportunity to,
177, 222, 223

Plays, junior and senior, 174
Population, 360 millions, 237
Positions, poorest for the in-
efficient, II; lost while con-
tending for rights, 41
Predecessors, fault of, 39
President McKinley and the
barefoot boy, 140

Price, for brood animal, 27
Problems, 59; certain social,
93; rural social, 94; small
town, 256

Program, making of, 48;
Christmas, 143, 144
Progress, educational, a back-
ward step in, 175; confidence
in, 177

Providing, pleasure instead of
depriving of, 128
Psychology, 74
Public conscience, 64
Public meetings, 81
Public opinion, period for
forming, 49, 63; in your
favor, 64; fickleness of, 64;
unreliable, 108
Punishment,

commensurate
with the offense, 54; certain,
swift and unerring, 62
Pupils, the task of caring for,
152

109
Responsibility,

a teacher's,
125; a school's, 185; a shift-
ing of, 210, 211; future gener-
ations to rise to, 237; to edu-
cate for development of, 238
Ricketty, ricketty jams, 176
Rogues, carelessness in busi-
ness makes, 188

Room for the teacher with
common sense, 293
Rose, Father and Mother, 29,
33, 99, 154, 199
Rules, 204, 205, 211
Rural church, 97, 103, 247
Rural high schools, should
maintain high standards,
239; not necessary to con-
fine efforts to college prep-
aration, 239
Rural leadership, 17
Rural people, dependent so-

cially, 95; feeding, not lead-
ing the world, 234; educa-
tional advantages for, 235;
a closer organization among,
254; are not less sacrificing,
255; reward incommensur-
ate with the returns to 255

Rural school, a market place
for cheap labor, 27; a religi-
ous centre, 29; has not kept
pace, 36; third place, 37;
betterment of, left to educa-
tors, 233; should run nine
months, 274

Rural society, criticism offered
on, 158

Sabbath, 227

S

Scarcity of reading material, 16
School board, managing the,
68; meeting of, 78

School building, repairing, 85;
used for other purposes
than school, 90

School curriculum, revolt of
the adolescent's mental atti-
tude toward, 242
School house, radical im-
provements of, 88

School laws, compulsory, 185
School, preparing for, 13; the

first day of, 19; city, 36; un-
controlled is a kindergarten
for reformatories, 109; two
types of, 151; the closing of,
174; one room, the only
really democratic institu-
tion, 181; is a moral uplift,
185; an unfailing sign of a
poor, 192; of small town, the
logical centres for rural
graded schools, 235; school
unit, 256, 269; term length
of, 257

School teaching, a living for
the incompetent, 190; a
stepping stone for the ambi-
tious, 190

Scrapers, horse drawn, 154
Second day, 38

Self, forgetting of and living
for others, 29, 32
Shakespeare, William, 75