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Show . I - COMMIS~IOXER OF INDIAN ~ F A I R S ~ 25 give but because of personal caprice or perhaps dissatisfaction kith necessary or merited discipline. Often students have been admitted to far-distant schools and theu. transpartation paid by the Government, the schools to which they made application being without knowledge of their prior enroll-ments Again, pupils have deserted from one school and k a ap - plied later for admission to another school. Instructions ham been v . issued to the superintendents for the purpask of correcting- these practices. A considerable saving in the cost of bansportation of pupils will thus be effected. The following expression on this subject is an excerpt from an ad-dress delivered by me at a conferenoe held in San Francisco last year: The student tramp is for many reasons to be discouraged. It is my informa-tion that in practically all of the nonreservation boarding schools there are Indian boys and girls who have heen transported nt Government ,expense long distances from their homes, passing other schools more accessible an8 having as good facilities. This condition is ordinarily inexcuible, and should not con-, . . tinue. It makes a large and unnecessary expense for transportation, encourages unret, has a demoralizing influence on the student body, in maw instances 'places p u ~ u sin schools wholly foreim to thelr after-life residence. limits de- , sirable acquaintance with those with whom they will mingle thereafter; anil in an industrlal way, particularly agricultural, gives but, little opportunity for acquiring 'knowledge of conditions prevailing In their respective%ome localities. '< Another 'important factor is' that the nomadic student acquires no lasting inter-est in the instltuiton where he attends school; he Is thus robbed of that bean-tiful relationship which should malntain and ought to engender a lifelong pride in the school where he received his edncatlon. SCHOOL8 08 !CEE BITE CIVILIZED TRIBES. There have been conducted heretofore two boarding schools for the Chickaeaw Nation. At Collins Institute the main building was de-stroyed by fie and new buildings are to be constructed. At Bloom-field Seminary the school building was burned in January, 1914. Harpove College property, at Ardmore, has been purchased and will be opened as Bloomfield Seminary. Extensive repairs and im-provements have been made in order to fit the plant for its purpose. There was appropriated the sum of $275,000 for the purpose of siding the public-school districts in eastern Oklahoma, at the Qna-paw superintendency and in the Osage Nation, which had been de-prived of school revenue because of the nontaxable Indian lands within the districts. This amount has been expended under regu-lations'issned by the Secretary in assistance of approximately 2,400 school districts. on the basis of the approximate amount of revenue of which the districts have been deprived. There have been so edu- . cated at the public schools approximately 20,000 children of the Five Civilized Tribes. |