Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Telephone, October 12, 1897, p. 1. Note: The beginning of this item was cut off in copying as indicated by ellipsis. .important gains over the corresponding month of last year. These reports contain twelve items of general interest and significance, which set forth the conditions existing in a school, and from which it is easy to deduce logical inferences. The records of the teachers are carefully kept day by day, and all upon the same plan. From the record each teacher at the end of the month makes a report to the superintendent, and he summarizes these reports as his report to the board of trustees. But the superintendent's report sets forth the facts in each teacher's report, and all in connected view. It is the duty of the superintendent to see that the teachers' reports harmonize with the records. These records and reports are always open to inspection by any one interested in them. For the month ending Oct. 1, 1897, the total enrollment was 1310; the average daily belonging, 1227; the average daily attendance, 1183; the average daily absence, 96; the number of tardies, 107; that number of minutes lost by tardies, 552; the number of pupils neither absent nor tardy and who started to school the first day, 722; cases of truancy, 2; corporal punishments, 11.