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Page 12 text:
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THE FOLLOWING LETTER WAS RECEIVED IN REPLY TO THE INFORMATION GIVEN CONCERNING THE DEDI- CATION OF THIS VOLUME OF THE OPTIMIST. Middletown, Ohio, February 3, 1923. To the Youth of Middletown :- It has been our earnest desire to provide adequate schooling facili- ties for every girl and boy in our city. The new school buildings soon to be dedicated are a partial realization of our ambitions. We trust that these new opportunities will result in such an appreciation on your part that both you and the community at large will be greatly benefited. We agree with Emerson, that The true test of civilization is not in the census, nor in the size of the cities, nor in the crops, but in the kind of men that the country turns out. Sincerely yours, fSignedJ M. E. Danford, Pres. P. G. Banker, Clerk A. K. Lewis, Vice Pres. D. E. Harlan H. R. Betts Board of Education. -9- X ,M
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Of all inspiriting and moralizing agencies in American society to- day, the public school alone has gained in influence and increased in strength since the civil war. Legislation has declined in efficiency, the courts are less respected, the church has been left behind, and education -public education-alone has retained its hold on democracy and is be- coming more and more effective as the years go by?-Charles William Eliot, Former President, Harvomcl Uiiioefrsity. What in the Way of culture, efficiency, and good citizenship has this country reason to expect in 1922 in return for the cost of operating the public schools? The answer is simple and directg inasmuch as it is spending no more of purchasing power upon the schools in 1922 than it was expending in 1911, it has reason to expect no more by Way of culture, eiiiciency, and good citizenship than it secured by the expenditures of 1911. It has reason to expect no more, but as matter of fact it is getting more, the increase being chargeable to the devotion of the great body of teachers and school administrators to the cause of better America. - Will C. Wood, The Department of Superiiitemlence, N. E. A., 1922. -3- tt ,M
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