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Show COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN APFAIRS. 9 Thousands of men and boys and girls, have invested in Liberty Bonds who never before realized the satisfaction of property ownership. Others have introduced themselves to their first effort to restrain the spending habit. Altogether this epoch-making experience and its probabilities foretell a basic revolution which will immeasurably benefit present and future generations. EDUCATION. Couass o r STUDY FOR INDIAsNo ~oo~s . - Inm y annud report for - the fiscal year 1916, a somewhat extended description was given of s new and uniform course of study which had been prepared for use in all the Indian schools. During the current year a strong effort has been made to develop and perfect the operation of this course. Supervising officials have visited, with a few unavoidable excep-tions, all the schools of their respective districts, giving counsel and aid in such ways as have led to a better understanding of the course of study and a more thorough complimce with its requirements. During the year all of the schools were supplied with a diagram-matic representation of the course showing upon one page an epit-ome, or picture, of its scope for boarding schools, illustrating the two principal divisions above the primary grades and the academic and industrial subjects for each group under headings suggestive of appropriate organization and supervision. This was done to secure a more uniform understanding of the structural principles involved in comprehensive outlines of some 300 pages, and has been found to be helpful. It seems to me that this condensed dia-gram, with a few brief notes accompanying it, wilJ be of sufficient public interest, particularly among educational people, to justify its inclusion here. |