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were able to raise the necessary funds, but, realizing how many excellent projects are wrecked by "'prentice hands," and under- standing fully the responsibility resting on them in this impor- tant matter, determined to get the best advice possible in the conduct of the schools. They, therefore, extended an invitation to the following educators to take full charge of the educational side of the schools. Not one refused, and the generosity, sympathy, and enthusiasm with which these men and women gave an afternoon fortnightly of their valuable and busy time to consider the best course to pursue cannot be sufficiently appreciated, and to say that their advice was invaluable to the whole movement is to express little of the debt we owe them. They are : Professor G. Bamberger, superintendent Jewish Training School ; Professor Charles Thurber, dean Morgan Park Academy; Dr. J. M. Coulter, University of Chicago; Colonel F. W. Parker, superintendent Chicago Normal School ; Professor W. S. Jackman, Chicago Normal School ; Miss Jane Addams, Hull House; Professor Charles Zueblin, University of Chicago ; Dr. H. H. Belfield, superintendent Chicago Manual Training School; Miss Maud Summers, principal Kinzie School; Mrs. H. F. Hegner, Kindergarten Training School, Chicago Commons ; Mr. John P. Gavit, Chicago Commons ; Miss Anna Bryan, Kindergarten Training School, Armour Institute; Professor G. N. Carman, superintendent Lewis Institute. To these was added the chairman of the committee of women's clubs, Miss Sadie American. They at once organized themselves into a "board of education," with the following committees:

Teachers and janitors.

Curriculum and excursions.

Rules and regulations.

Buildings and grounds.

Supplies.

Finance.

The child himself, and how to expand and develop the good and beauty in him, was the central thought influencing the "board" in arranging the curriculum. As the pivot of the work, weekly excursions into the parks and surrounding country, under