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Show results can be obtained only if all the factors concerned work with self-devotion in iutelligent harmony. A direct outcome of t.his discovery on the part of school workers is to be found in the periodical meetings of all of the employees of one school in which measures for ~nutually harmonizing the work with reference to its influence upon the school as a whole 're discussed and decided upon. A third valuable result of the summer institutes I find in the fact that they are lifting the workers out of the depth of narrow local empiricism ul>on t,l~pel ateau of broad, scientific principles. They are learniug to appreciate the fact that behiud the ir~dividuaIl udians with whom they have to do lie their tribal surroundings, the history of these tribes aud their association mith other tribes. and the entire etlt~lologiv;~~ll es t . lo!~~u~f~ rml~ra L uili;~n! .;Ice. 0 1 1 r l~e[b tller 11:ind tlley aru Iearl~ingt ~ a11111.eeiatoth o lacr tll;~tt he 1udi;111\s% 'it11 \vhonl Itley have totloare vril~l;~l.i1ly1u mn11b einc.~w biect it1 their ~ ) I ~ s ~ i ~ ~onld~ ~ ~ ' i psy~!hological; I ~ V ~ I ~ ~ I ~r lI ~~eII> ,IWH~ C ;;IIIIIIUII to ail ~;UUI>I I ; l>ei~lg~, a1111t hat even tril1~a1~ tdra cial p ~ r ~ ~ l i ; ~ r1i1tr8i\ tv~itsh r~'Icr~'u('cMth)e se laws merely incidents or conditions and in no w&y intrinsic. They are, lastly, learning to appreciate the '~ct that the influence of their work does not end with the individuals and localities with which they have to do, but stands in direct relation to comm~untyli fo in the States and Territories in which these 1ndia.ua~r e situated, and through these with the institutional life and development of the nation as a whole. By these gains their work ceases to be a series of jobs, or ]nore or less m-e ~n-ia- l drudeeries. and becomes an imnortant trust of oatriotism and ~~ ~~ ~ ~~ - A L missionary value. In some agencies this is felt so i<ewly that local-service institutes have been orranized to meet at different seasorls of the vear. The most importaft of these gatherir~gsh ave been held so far o~cthPe onca, Pawnee, and Otoe reservations, at the Kiowa and Goma.uche agency, among the Mission sncl Tule River Reservations, among the schools ar~d reservations of Wisconsin, at Standing Rock Reservation, at the Puyal-lup Agency, and OIL the Pine Ridge and Rosebud reservations. Permit me to direct your attelltion to the apperldix of my report, which contains the programmes of the institutes held during the past summer, and a, number of papers and extracts from papers whiclt will vindicate the high character and great practical value of these meetings. SUPERVISORS. I would again invite your attention to the fa,ct that my efforts todirect important details of the school work are still greatly l~amperedb ecause only three supervisors are placed at my command. I understand that this is due to the lack of fuuds at your disposal. In order to enable me to sat,isfy fully the many requirerueuts of my office, at least five super-visors are needed. These could be placed in permanent charge, respect-ively, of five districts, so arrwged as to enable tlmm to visit the ditfer-ent schools in these districts with such frequency as to see that the iu-structions of the office are intelligently cousidered in the work of the sobools. On the other band, it is s subject for congratulation that the position of supervisor has been placed under civil service rules, and that, in making select,ions for vnrancies, it mill be possible to promote to this position ex~)ericnce(aIu ld tried superintendents. I am pleased to learn that steps are in progress to secure a sufficient increase in the salaries of supervisors to justify both the Department and superintendents |