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Gentlemen, when I first became Secretary of
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the Maryland State Teachers Association twenty-two years
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ago. this coming February, this v;as just barely over the
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hill in Baltimore City, and there was a vestige of it
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still going on in Cecil County on such things as the orders
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for textbooks and other supplies in the various schools
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from which the School Board members came. This is con-
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firmed by the report of the Commission established in 1914,
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as reported by Doctors Abraham Flexner and Frank B. Bach-
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than.
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May I say this again reports one of the land-
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marks in educational surveys. It was the first one ever
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done by a grant of the Legislature and the general Educatio
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Board, which was one of the first services in the field of
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education by the Carnegie Foundation when it was established
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slightly ahead of that time.
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Quoting from the report:
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"In view of these conditions it is easy enough
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to understand why a fundamentally correct type of organiza-
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tion produces unsatisfactory educational results in
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Maryland. But, as a matter of fact, the State does not
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