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INDIANAPOLIS, 1856.-CONSOLIDATED AND INCORPORATED AT INDIANAPOLIS IN I 1900

September, Nineteen

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Robert Judson Aley, Ph. D., Editor.

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Education is not a scheme to enable a man to live without work. Its purpose is to help him to work to advantage to make every stroke count. David Star Jordan

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CONTENTS

3. The Housing of Consolidated Schools in Rural Communities-William F. Sharpe
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH:

18. Common Errors of the Careless Speaker

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Josephine Turck Baker

INDIANA TEACHERS' READING CIRCLE DEPARTMENT:
21. Studies in the Teaching of Geography for Second Institute
25. Studies in the History of Modern Education
26. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT

WA. McBeth
George L. Roberts
Robert Judson Aley

28. High School Preparation of Candidates for Normal School Training J. A. Shawan
29. Relations, of Secondary Schools and Colleges

G W. A. Luckey

30. High School Preparation of Candidates for Normal School Training

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PERSONAL AND EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT

52. STATE BOARD QUESTIONS FOR AUGUST WITH

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INDIANA UNIVERSITY

BLOOMINGTON

The growth of Indiana University during the last fifteen years is shown by the following five-year table:

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The following publications are issued inhially by the Uterity..

The University Studies.

The University Catalogue.

The Spring Term Bulletin

The Summer Term Bulletin

The Bulletin of the College of Liberal Arts

The Bulletin of the School of Education.

The Bulletin of the Graduate School.

The Bulletin of the School of Law.

The Bulletin of the School of Medicine.

Any of these publications, with the exception of the University Studies, will be sent free upon application to the Registrar, or to

WILLIAM L. BRYAN, President.

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Vol. XII.

SEPTEMBER, 1911

No. 1

THE EDUCATORARY

The Housing of Consolidated Schools in Rural Communities.

WILLIAM F. SHARPE, Crawfordsville, Ind.

It is now barely fifteen years ago since it was first shown by an actual experiment that pupils thinly scattered over two or more country school districts could as well be hauled daily to some central point easy of access and be consolidated under one roof.

This venture came of an impulse to economize, that is, in a commercial sense, and, so far as I know, there was no thought at the time of its after growth and development into a far more efficient system.

As most observers may already know, this venture marks the beginning of perhaps the most radical change in policy ever inaugurated among us in public school affairs; for out of it one can now easily foresee an almost complete evolution, in rural communities, from the old unitdistrict system into a general consolidation of such units.

The idea of hauling pupils, that is, at public expense, from a thinned out district over into an adjoining one having perhaps the better building, appears

for each room, and so get the benefit
of better classification.

Whether pupils were thinly scat-
tered about or not was no longer to
be considered.

Not until then did we think of christening the new idea. So recent in fact was this event that we had begun to "Remember the Maine" and to take on international airs before it occurred.

The consolidation of schools has now gone so far in some cases as to embrace entire townships-towns and all-of six, eight, and perhaps ten or more districts in a single combination. New and larger buildings are of course required to put the idea into effect, the old one-room buildings being then abandoned for good.

Once the consolidation of the country districts began in earnest a larger and somewhat new opportunity was of presented for architectural

course

study.

Before the new-building era began, however, something like a nation-wide educational, social, and sanitary awak

to have been put into practice in dif-ening, if I have observed rightly, had
ferent localities at about the same
time.

From this practice it was of course easy to grasp the enlarged idea now known as consolidation, and, on occasion, some three or four years later, to put the same into effect.

This only became possible, however, when we should erect a new building of at least two rooms, with a teacher

already gained more than average
headway here among us of Indiana.

The pressure of development from
this cause alone was such that the
old unit district had far outgrown the
house our fathers built, quite a while,
in fact, before the consolidation plan.
was thought of.

There was, in common with all great movements, it may be said, a re

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