Kansas City Teachers College - Ye Pedagogue Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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' Q W X THE HALLS OF LEARNING Teachers College for the past live years has occupied its own building. the east wing ol' XYoodland School. The purpose of Teachers College is to flt graduates to teach in the elementary schools of Kansas City. Taking it all in all, the students in Teachers College are a happy, useful group, keenly interested in their work and eager for thc time when they can try themselves out as n part of Kansas City's splendid school system. .N '-,Xt . I YN.-K ,..,,., .N V, -A TN x L R Q X X '. :-'. A 1 ,Q -. .sis XI - . , ...-.-,.,-n- X-Y wr , H,,ANv ,QM ff ,,:-,-.., ,. .....1.

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