Once a month, and sometimes oftener,
there is a general meeting of all the instructors. Aside from
these there are innumerable smaller meetings, such as that of the
instructors in the Phelps Hall Bible Training School, or of the
instructors in the agricultural department.
In order that I may keep in constant touch with the life of the
institution, I have a system of reports so arranged that a record
of the school's work reaches me every day of the year, no matter
in what part of the country I am. I know by these reports even
what students are excused from school, and why they are
excused--whether for reasons of ill health or otherwise. Through
the medium of these reports I know each day what the income of
the school in money is; I know how many gallons of milk and how
many pounds of butter come from the dairy; what the bill of fare
for the teachers and students is; whether a certain kind of meat
was boiled or baked, and whether certain vegetables served in the
dining room were bought from a store or procured from our own
farm. Human nature I find to be very much the same the world
over, and it is sometimes not hard to yield to the temptation to
go to a barrel of rice that has come from the store--with the
grain all prepared to go in the pot--rather than to take the time
and trouble to go to the field and dig and wash one's own sweet
potatoes, which might be prepared in a manner to take the place
of the rice.
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