| Show STUDIES SCHOOLS ON TRAMP Dr Foley tI Sleeps In a Barn on His HI Incognito Tour Albany N. N Y John Yo-John John Huston Finley In ley LL LI D. D president of the University of the State of New York and state commissioner com corn missioner of education started out from Elmira on a tramp ugh b the I counties of ot Chemung Schuyler Yates and Ontario He traveled Incognito and visited the rural schools to study the conditions at tit first hand baud Dr Arthur Arthur Ar thur D. D Dean chief of the division of vocational schools accompanied him We walked to catch the atmosphere to feel the pulse not to spy said Dr Dean and there certainly were conditions conditions con revealed d both good and bad We had merely n a sympathetic desire to see things s us ns they are and encourage the good and nud help Improve the bad badIn In describing the trip Dr Dean said mId Among some som- twenty schools there w were rc only two where the teachers lie liv lived ed ed in the district the year around It ItI I 1 c S N br k t tA A A Photo by American Press Association I JOHN HUSTON VI LICY looked as us though the school came to io I life at I. I U o'clock and died at 4 o o'clock each day as though it breathed once every twenty-four twenty hours for live five hours for five he days day in the week every pry week iu in the school year and then remained d dead till fall I The teachers tel were mostly young girls dins from the villages The pay was small ranging from 9 to 12 a week Very Iry few fw teachers hers remained f for r more than thun n II year Yf-ar In the f same me district rt There was lIS one oue ca case where a teacher hI liP liP-I'd dl districts for the the- same salary In one section all nil the schoolhouses seemed to be he located at the most barS bar ren yen places fI |
