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holders were to receive the material gathered on excursions, for use in the schools. The regular sessions were from 9 to 12. The subjects taught, for which no books were allowed, were nature study, drawing and painting from nature, music, gymnastics and games, sewing and manual training. In each
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school two teachers were employed for nature study, two for draw- ing, one for music, one for gymnastics, two for sewing, two for manual training, and two for the kindergarten. Besides these teachers there were 1 50 of last year's normal-school graduates, each of whom donated a week of service to the vacation schools, and to their efficient help much of the success of the schools is due. Their training at the normal school not only fitted them to lead the children, but often they were a source of inspiration to the regular teachers.
Of the seventy teachers and directors twenty-nine were from the Chicago public schools, five from outside public schools, twenty-one from private schools, four from social settlements, and eleven without previous experience in teaching. The average
