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Show 354 REPORT OF SLIPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN SCHOOLS. to superficial work done at the school from which they returned, or to unusual adverse conditions either a t t l ~ eag ency or on the reser-vation. Indeed, it is possible that for a perioil and in some instances all tllese causesof faililru 111ilye xist to SI~CIRI II exrrllf :IS 10 tllrnw 111a11- 8iblt. t lo~~IbI ~rI OI It l~eel~t isr~e, l:rmeof1 ndii11e1d 11~:1tio:1L1I ILcIi vili~:itiu~~; vet here as elsewhere the uart of wisdoln is to remove these causes of failore after recognizi~~tgi~ emt,o stop the leaks as it were, and not to abandon the ship. The fullest success in edncatioual worli can be obtained only through vital orgirnizatiou of the entire work. A11 factional oppositioli betmeen adherents of a so-called reservation school system and another so-called nonreservation school system must cease. There is no independent reservation school system nor au independent nonreservation school system, but both of these are simply organic and equally essential fac-tors in an Indian xchool systein which comprises every educational factor in the work. It is to be hoped, therefore, that tlie method of trai~sfersf rom one grade of schools to another which you uromiifeated on March 12 will be ihyally followed out by all concerned. - DAY SCHOOLS. Progress is reported throughout the field in the organization and efficiencv of dav schools. Much can be naiued for the efficiencv of a nu1nber"of these, however, if the respeotFve teachers were to sp"end a portion of t11e day with adult Indians, teacl~ing them the arts and industries of daily life and the use of the English language with refer once to daily needs, and organizing the returned India11 youth in after-noon classes and in clubs or associations that mill enable them to lieep alive t,heir idealsmith reference to civilized life gained at school. Such a course mill not only directly hasten the process of civilizing the older Indians, but will indirectly make the work of the schools with the children more imnressive and more permanent bv securing the active sympathy and even cooperation of tKe home in thk work oFthe school. I congratulate the school service, therefore, on your action with ref-erence to a number of our dav schools, authorizing agents to esta,blish this important change iu all hases wh&e it appears fzasible. FIELD MATRONS. In this connection I am oleased to be able to reuort that theinfluence of tile l~cldn latron couri~~titcos he one oi thc ~nos'tv nluable t j c t o ~n.o~t only in the eivilizatio~o~f the ln~llani l l his hon~eli tb, l~n ta lso ill the xrowtltof interrst on the unrt of tile I~rdi:r~ilns thevork of the scl~oold. phe cre-~a~ti on of the oosi6ion of female industrial teacher on the reser- ~ ~ ~ vations where the tr'eati &rms and Con~r e~s io~aipaplr opriations per-mit this. will no doubt have an eauallv beneficial influence in the same directio".,in~as mnch as the duties-of these emnlovees are oracticallv the ~ ~ - - " &me &those of the field matron. A In the interest of Indian education as a whole? more particularly with reference to the establishment of direct vital relations between the work of the school and the daily life of the Indian, it is to be hoped that Con-gress at its ensuing session will provide liberally for this important service. GROWTH OF INTEREST. The increase in school attendance, as shown by statistics contained in your report for 1896, indicates increased interest in sci~oolsa mong |