A few days previous to the opening of school at ----, a member of the
school board dropped in one morning to see me. In the course of the
conversation he said that the board would meet the second evening after
the opening of school, and invited me to be present, if I cared to come.
I thanked him for the invitation and assured him that I should be glad
to attend the meeting.
At the teachers' meeting on the Saturday before the school opened, I
gave each teacher a blank, and asked for a report at the close of the
first day of school, somewhat as follows: