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Show other hand, they will protect the more advanced institntions against the influx of pupils who are not sufficiently prepared for trausfer or who are otherwise undesirable. Moreover, they will enable each school to form before the close of the given school year a fairly accurate esti. mate as to the number and character of the pnpils to be enrolled for the ensuing year. It will be necessary, however, for the IndianOffice to insist early and often during the coming year upon its determinatiou to have these rules carried out. This w111 be partictzlarly necessary in the case of agents who labor under the strange error that t l~eyw ill serve the inter-est of the Indians intrusted to their care bv limitine Indian vouth to scl~oolf acilities affonlcd 1111011 their r~s e rvj ' t i~:rI~I I,~ f l~ati t a 111is-turtuno for the .VOIII1I1K1 1lii1utos c om~i l l t.41ntnc.r wit11 t l ~ e~ rneui1it.so f a hieher md more-refined civilization and subseouentlv to return to tl&r pet~plcw, l~vli ve ur~dt rc onditions ;ulvern~ta t i11r~ki lization of their i~leals:! u<I tn lhv ~)rt,tit;lblues e of rhe ii~torrn;~ritohte~y may have " - gained or the sliill they inay have acquired. Unquestionably snch failure on the part of returned Indian youth will under a11 circumstances be more or less distressing. Unquestion-ably, too, with Indian youth who have contrilcted at the schools from which they graduated contempt for their parents slid for their former Indian associates, arid l~ave learned to deem themselves intrinsically superior to thei+ kindred, because of their fami1iarit.y with new social customs aud with the knowledge and arts of white civilization, such failure ma.y result in a fatal retrogression, incnl~able of life purposes and ideals not associated mith their persor~aal ggrandizement or pecu-niary success. They are apt, therefore, to fall into the indolence of despair or into a vicious act,ivity stimulated by lower passions in their nature which the school has failed to eradicate or control. On the other hand. if the school not onlv has succeeded in .e .i v-i ~ ti~1 ig~g s~ rft<lu~SteI I-~i C ~ . ~ sOnI(.. iiil all11 l,rrsou;~tla stes and habir~a. u ~ l a c.ertnin ~ I I I O I I I Io~ i inti)r~ui~tion~lldt i~ldustriill l rniui~~gb,u t also and at the same time, has meserved and intensified their iove of kin-dred, has implanted in thiir hearts a healthy, earnest desire to lead their people to an appreciation and to the e n j o y ~ ~ ~ofe it~het blessings and refinements of civilization, of which they themselves have had a taste, and which has accustomed them to look upon their own require-ments primarily as means for a nseful, beneficent life, such failure, if it can be called a failure, will stimulate new effort. It may result in a desree of external discomfort. but not in inner wretchedness and low others which he oonsiders nernicious. and bv ail eauallv unobtru-sire al~c~l uorlrste s~l ru~lean th 6ttcrv:ry ot' livin& the r~i:t~l.&-t,l~ deut \\.ill st rn~l~lley; ~t1l 11.;o\rnp eoplc ;l\Tay fir)nt~h eir u~~~~rolital~lt.orlherence 11, rlwir pnnr into a11 :sppreeiation all11 fi,llowi~~gtolf~ \ev llite I;IHII'A \vayx. The great ~u:tjorityo f' 111di;1utr ibes :IW possesse~li l l a high ~le:rc!e of the esse~~tinvli rtues of ~ PVCP I : I IC~ ,C oLIrilge, >a111d1 vvotiol~t o tl~lty, which eoustitute the cro\r.iI of hl~nunity. (:mnpared wit11 the per1u:i-ncllr n.ortl#( IT t h c ~ iell ing.; i l l tilt? liic c,i Illlru:~ulty.t he \r;~rioosre fine. mentn a~ttla ~ : c l ~ ~ i r e ~oaf ee~ir~iltis~ :~tio;uIU, II ~ ' ~ . I >tIhI e fancied or real superiority of one phase of civilization over allother have only a tran-sient val~lne. A process of civilization or edncation which lays stress upon the latter at the expense of the former is superficial and will obtain only superficial results. In order to obtain permanent results of intrinsic development in the right direction, every educational measure |