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in the seventh and eighth grades is "hitching the horse to the wrong end of the wagon."

DRAWING AND PAINTING.

The drawing teachers all sought to cooperate with the nature-study teachers in their work, and the result was very

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satisfactory. I am convinced that for field work all attempts to represent nature in any of its forms should be by means of water colors, and not by crayons or pencils. Some advocate the crayon at first, but, judging from the summer's work, the han- dling of the brush is freer, and certainly the color of the paint is softer, much more pleasing, and more truthful than the crayon.

MUSIC AND GAMES.

The music as taught in the vacation schools was recreative in its nature, the emphasis being put upon the interpretation of songs and vocal cultivation. A carefully selected programme of