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NEGLECTED ARABIA V

l was in charge of the dormitory, it seemed quite strange to them
that l would make no distinction in that way, that I treated them
all alike, and that the younger ones were no more servants l< » me
than the older ones.
1 cannot help but wonder at the interest the boys show in the
school and school work; especially when l see the easy happv-go-
lucky shiftlessness of the people in the bazaars and everywhere
in general, it makes the boys' interest in school all the more
striking. The high average of attendance especially attracts one s
attention. It is a record which any school in any part of the
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world might be proud of. Through all the winter months, through
all the cold and rain, we had an average attendance of over ninety-
five per cent.; often there were not more than two or three
absent of the 145 enrolled, and even once or twice \vi had a perfect
attendance ; and we do not have a hundred and one different rules
of attendance either. And the boy does not come to school merely
for amusement, but for work, lie works hard on his lessons not
for any material prize as he might get in some other schools.
The school is run largely on the Gary system, and advancement
as he proves himself ready for it, is his reward. Very often before : i
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