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General Suggestions

Not "higher" education but "better" education is our aim.  At the same time pupils who show special fitness and are willing to make sacrifices on their own account in order to take up something higher than our course calls for, are not only encouraged but a way is always provided for them to do so.  Through the co-operation of Dickinson College, th Carlisle Business College, the Scranton Correspondence School and similar institutions, any student who has shown special fitness can take up and complete any course offered by any one of these institutions.  In fact we have a number of students who are now making a success along these lines, largely by their own efforts but still under the guiding hand of the School.  In a word the advantages and opportunities offered by the Carlisle Indian School cannot be surpassed, and every-thing considered, are probably not equalled by any other school in the Indian Service.

PROGRAMME

Teachers, in arranging programmes, provide for three primary subjects to be recited upon three or four times per week.  The remaining subjects as secondary are recited upon three or less times per week.  A plan or programme of the day's work is sent to the Principal's office each morning.  The month's work is planned in advance for his approval.

MORALS AND MANNERS

Teachers must do earnest personal work. "Soul to soul contact is the only work that tells.:  No rude or uncouth things are allowed to pass.  Life-living, not lecturing, tells most in character unfolding. Everything that lends toward correct habit formation is carefully considered. This means patient, persistent effort, constant vigilance.

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ELOCUTIONARY WORK AND LITERARY SOCIETIES

Pupils receive training in rhetorical work from week to week in their respective rooms, and once per month a public exhibition is given in the chapel, at which time the rooms alternate in furnishing one exercise.  Teachers give helpful attention to the pupils work done in their literary societies.

There are four literary societies, two among the boys and two for the girls.  Meetings are held every Friday evening. Employees in details of two take turns in visiting the societies and report their observations and criticisms to the Principal.  The students manage the meeting themselves and derive great benefit from them.

EVENING PROGRAM

Order No. 30 Dated September 26, gives a good idea as to what is being accomplished along this line.

OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT.
INDIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL,
CARLISLE, Pa., September 26, 1907.

ORDER}
No.30}

To afford all pupils the opportunity for volunteer study, reading, or other useful occupation in their own rooms, which now takes the place of forced study in the class rooms, it is necessary that the time set apart for this purpose be known as the "Quiet Hour," at least as far as Quarters are concerned.

All pupils therefore who are not engaged in regular gymnasium work or who are not assigned to Library Work are to repair to their rooms at 7:00 P.M. on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of each week, and spend the hour in volunteer study, sewing, or other useful quiet occupation.

The bell will ring at the beginning and close of this hour.

Teachers especially will see that the pupil is given the opportunity to accomplish something by his own efforts--problems to work; a good book to read, class work or industrial work of any kind can be done quietly.

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