Show I States State s New High Schools f t ft and Free School Libraries I N f regard to school work In general generalI 1 I throughout the this year yar State Slate I of lit Schools A C e Nel iel el sin hits hilS the tho following to say nay Tho leading feature In connection with our schools the past year ear huts hug been the establishment ot of high schools It has been my lilY mn alto ever since Ince I have ha 0 been In to encourage null anti advance the establishment of high schools and thin thiC year ear has baa been very successful In that respect High schools have been beun es e nt lit American Kork Iorli Ie Iehl hi hl and SaUna Salina and and the tho high school at nt which was wa about to be lie discon discontinued has hall hn been revived and Is Ic now in a 11 condition with a good at nt attendance and Letter better b U r support from tram the citizens than ever eer It before Al At Mantl a 11 high school building la Is h be being my constructed at lit a n c cut t of when completed It will wll bo be a I great credit ta to t that city In Jut addition to the high schools men mentioned ninth grade grada or school writ has been ben In tn eight or ten school chool districts ThU Thill means m the e of et H III high school course In tho districts within u II fIN ft years ear School Not even second In Importance to tho the high In II h the establishment elta of ot school libraries In various districts throughout tho the cinte It Il hall bee been ap sr apparent parent to this ollice for or A 1 long time that the pupils ot of our public s schools should hould have hev to more and nd alto mIso Io to a bet better betler ter ler tirade crude of literature than which may be found toun In most mOlt of the thu schools of the stats state Realising the thi treat Ireat part vart which th the reading of ot proper pro er Juvenile lit literature plays In the education of or the tha child chillI and being fully toll full aware of the tha scarcity of or such luch rending reading matter In mOlt moet of ot the tho schools cheole tIde thin department has hal hall had prepared r 01 the tha following list lIt of 0 book booke which various experts consider almost almot I Ian An a Ideal school library The books number lumber more than their price I They were wera selected to cover such Buch subjects a III history awl and biography geography and ami travel science legend Rout poetry literature the short hort hortatory story atory historical fiction and such Buch oilier ether literature as liS la Li moat Interesting Int ami profitable to 10 the pupil The books book were vere selected with exceptional care are and they are adapted to the various grades grade giving Cl ClIng ing lug material for every ever child In n it I school or a iv horne home Most school libraries of ot thin this state are arc but poorly adapted 1 to th j requirements requirement even Ien of ot the he eighth grade grada pupils thus thun leaving the tha other pupil without suitable library books at lilt all Hooks Dooks equal in lii number may be secured I fur for I lese money mOlley than that list of which thIs library 1 is hi offered but hut In making thIs se selection s II lection tha thu matter quality of oC literary material immaterial ant and of ot html bind binding ing erv the lion Ion I ani am pleased to see s that hut a Il large number of ot school boards are ere now buy buyIng bu buyIng Ing III these the e J This In III the fIrst year of ot uniform teachers examination which I f rill feel cl will have 11 at 1 tendency to Increase the anti ami standard of or our teachers There w were weN ra a II large lue number of It failure thia year yeu but I t think that will be an Incentive for tor to tn attend turn um met mel school anti and It MIl better hetter prepare them themselves themselves selves for tor the examination and fur for mie 1110 revenues for school purposes show a n steady Increate Increase lawt laeL year the Increase wa was over the tha log III year fur and this year ear the Increase will willbe willbe willbe be about bout a U great freal A number of ot handsome new noI school buildings building havu havi been buen constructed during the year and sal In tn nearly every iown town anti and city the b beat t building ar are found to be II school build building tugs ing the ThO total school population ot of 0 the time state year ear I is III approximately children an Increase over last lait year veal of 0 about ut 1000 The Th attendance will ex x cee ceel l that lust of ot any RII previous year In all alt and grades from the kin to ta the unIversity and md the people fl rl nil all over the slits Ittle t t show an In Intense Intense tense tonee Interest re t In educational work |