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often grand, and one must weigh well such real worth of character, when estimating the man.  The Supt. of a great school like this needs a man of large experience, of executive ability, one who can delegate work to others, and who knows how to make others work.  He needs to be an educated gentleman, having practical ideals toward which he aims.  He need know a good farmer, a good mechanic & good teacher, a good instructor [[?to]] any [[?hands]] and he must have the faculty of managing [[?his]] [[corp]] of [[?teachers]] as well as his Indian schoars.  The place is a difficult one to fill.

Mr McConnille's instruction has unfortunately been limited, the Army drill as a private, and later as a Sargeant, has alas had a limiting influence in is ideas of what constitutes authority, and the way of showing it.  He has also known little of cultivated life, or seen much of well conducted farms or indeed [[?times]].  He faithfully strives to reproduce the best he knows but that knowledge does not [[?]] all that is needed for this place, where the work of advancing a race needs be done.

As I wrote you, you could not do better in [[?]]

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