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Show 390 REPORTS OF INDEPENDENT SUEOOLS REPORT OF SCHOOL AT FORT LEWIS, COLO. r~our;'rnm>~rcelrl n'racteristic ui tLr ~ eg e~rtlcmr,n,r q d e nugg&xiona which, on b e i q carried onr, sere cruinently ilwiul and practi~al. It i~ 10 he regwtted that sume or rlw rum~,en<lirtc,rryc marks (if ally R U C ~ar eerrr made hy our inul.rctorn].ar a sunrre oi cncinragvnmrnr to s u l~~r i n t r n~lartrb~d torr heh. ra,t hc inrniahrd to 111~.m nir* conct.rnc.1. Tl,c cort~1~unnaw1r.ep~ ~rarknesv er fail to reach thv r~ghstp ot. \be ape EO 11121nv (11 IIIF ~ h+o l c t ~wr. sh~,uld-I,t~. bd~,ltt(~:)t ,ilitst.yw ays that the practice pur-l i t irlsp~k riun,a n.1 11w reporti ui tlrrur in giving praise wllrrt? it is mer-ikd r l ~ ~ ii ~v ilt ~i ht; lletil l*;fo110~v~din bur wrsiw. ...4 11 bldureand n,, irairr oushr to mak; Jack a very indifferent, if not a very worthless, boy." Transfers of pnpils.-About 20 weresent to Carlisle and Haskell, hut I am not fully satisfied that the best physical interests of these children were subserved by the sudden and necessarily marked climatic change involved in a transfer from an alti-tude of over 8,WO feet, ,where the atmosphere is pure and bracing, where the sun shines from cloudless sk~eas t least three hundred days every year, to a lace a t sea level or a little above it, and where the locality is characterized by tge opposite conditions that obtain here. Needs.-Repairs to several of the old buildings; a girb' dormitory, capacity 150; a dinlngroom and kitchen, capaeity 500; hospital, cl-room building, electric-lighting, and steam-heating lants. Very respectf)u~ly, Taos. H. BREE.N S, u.p a d e n l . The COMXISSIONEoRs INDIAAsNsn rm. |