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understanding that pupils may go to their
homes during vacation if they pay their own
way.
What can The nonreservation schools do,
through their graduates or pupils, to get the
old Indians interested in themselves?
December 7, morning Administration of
Schools.
How can we secure good ruen as principlas
of reservation sc ools?
Transfer of pupils their use and abuse.
What should be the minimum age limit of
matrons?
How should the spending of pupil's money
be supervised?
Should all school children be required to
wear Government clothes?
Should the school term of reservation
schools be shortened?
'Discipline and morals.
Should nonreservation schools be self-sup.
porting to some extent?
How far is it possible or wise to pat Iudian
pupils into white public schools?
Can the number of reservation schools be
reduced and more day schools be established?
December 7, Afternoon Day Schools.
Should clothing be furnished during the
school year to day school children whose
parents are too poor to clothe them properly?
Should the day school year be divided into
two terms of four months each, September 1
to December 25 March 1 to June 30?
How best to interest patrons in the day
schools
The advisability of consolidating Indian
day schools with public white schools where
conditions are favorable.
How far should the day school influence
the community?
December 8, Morning Academic and Indus
trial Work.
Should the course of study for Indian
schools be modified so as to conform to
course of public schools in states where In
dian schools are located?
The relation of literary and industrial
training in a three-year course and to what
extent may the classroom teachers assist in
industrial training?
What should be the training of a young
man of twenty3ne who can'neither read nor
write, aDd who enrolls in a nonreservation
school only for a term of three years.
Should the reservation schools, day and
boarding, be better equipped for manual
training?
Are better trained industrial teachers a
necessity?
The gradation of children when transfer
red from one class of schools to another.
Lagyards in the schools cause, remedy
and treatment.
Can the model farm plan of education be
adopted by Indian schools to advantage?
How to use the evenings to best advantage.
Should the work of the three classes of
schools be limited to grades?
Decembers, Afternoon Health.
Food at boarding schools.
Dormitory conditions.
. Athletics do they conduce to health of the
school?
General sanitation of school buildings,
barns and Indian Communities.
Are our schools over-routined, and do they
have sufficient time for recreation?
Outdoor versus indoor occupation for boys.
Prevalence of tuberculosis and trachoma.
December 9, Morning Reservation
Problems.
The farming of Indians how improved?
A model farm for each district.
How can the returned students best be
helped?
Indian dances.
How to enforce marriage and divorce laws
How to secure attendance of children at
school,
December 9, Afternoon Mjscellaneoi s.
Value of Institute work.
Is a reform school practicable?
State compulsory education laws applied
to Indians.
Conflicting names of schoolchildren.
'Office red tape" how it impedes progress.
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