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Show The following table shows the enrollment, etc., of these schools for the year: TABLEN o. 20.-Ewollment, auerage anemia* eto., at achook in Chodaw Nathn. Armstwng Academy ...................... 111 91.86 Wheelook Aoademy ....................... 94 19.41 Tushkshom&Aeademy .................... 126 110 Jones Aeademy ............................ 1% 103.11 Atoks Ba tist Aesdemy K 49.40 l ~ d a y s c i o o l s.. ....... ::::::::::::::::::: 3,074 2.032 Smell boarding schools .................... 257 206 Choetaw tnihon popils in Chickasaw Nation ................................... -gqs -.........- --- TOULI.. ................... .I ....... 4,788 1 . ....... .)... ... ..I 113]485.66 1. .I. ......... - =Per month. Chickasaw Bation.-The schools in this nation have been conducted during the year in accordance with the provisions of an agreement made with the principal chief of the nation on April 11, 1901, which agreement was printed in the annual report for 1901, on page 129. Under this agreement the following board of examiners was selected: John D. Benedict, United States superintendent of schools; E. B. Hinshaw, and George Bourland. Two grades of certificates are issued to teacbers in this nation, although neither is valid beyond one year from date of issuance. Teachers in the Chickasaw schools are em-ployed by the contractors who conduct the boarding schools. Day-. school teachers receive an average of $45 per month in warrank usually paid witbin a year of their issuance. There are five academies or boarding schools, one of which, Rock Academy, near Wapanucka, has not been occupied for more than a year, being condemned as unfit for use. These are let by contract for a term of five years each, all board, tuition, text-books, medical attendance, etc., being furnished by the contractor for a specified sum, based on the average attendance. The supervisor k of opinion that-the system is a vicious one, ~8 it placea the contractor under the eonstant temptation to furnish an inferior service, to his own profit, and the fact that in the main the present contractors haye not yielded to this pressure is evidence rather of their hon-orable conduct than ahsence of motive. By reason of the dual control of the schools, and their transitory state, it seems that for the present the system now used is the hest which can be devised, although the method of conducting the regular boarding schools under direct Government supervkion would yield the best and most satisfactory results. The academies are said not to be kept in proper repair, and two of them at least are of a more or less dilapidated appearance, which is not relieved by an internal inspection. The Bloomfield Seminary is a |
