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I have them however well classified and I find that under a thorough system of classes, I can manage them very readily. Each scholar is furnished with slate and pencil and considerable attention is paid to writing as you suggested. one half hour being devoted to this branch each day I have three regular classes in arithmetic and allot twenty in the forenoon to each class. I have also organized a class in Mental Arithmetic, comprising the whole school instruction given orally twice a week.
I receive many solicitations to write and answer letters I have organized a class in letter writing, which I report as pursueing composition, and to this class. I [[?]] the work of Freedmen correspondence. I was rejoiced at receiving slating to day have applied a portion