of things from day to day, with reference to the report.
Individuals not members of the Committee, can render assistance by any
suggestions they may present to this Committee. These should however
generally be made in writing."

"Subjects for such a report will be found to suggest themselves very
abundantly, though you may not perhaps think so at first. The Committee
may be empowered, not only to state the particulars in which things are
going wrong, but the methods by which they may be made right. Let them
present us with any suggestions they please. If we do not like them, we
are not obliged to adopt them. For instance, it is generally the case
whenever a recitation is attended in the corner yonder, that an end of
one of the benches is put against the door, so as to occasion a serious
interruption to the exercises when a person wishes to come in or go out.
It would come within the province of the Committee to attend to such a
case as this, that is, to bring it up in the report. The remedy in such
a case is a very simple one. Suppose however, that instead of the
_simple_ remedy, our Committee should propose that the classes reciting
in the said corner should be dissolved and the studies abolished. We
should know the proposal was an absurd one; but then it would do no
hurt;--we should have only to reject it."

"Again, besides our faults, let our Committee notice the respects in
which we are doing particularly well, that we may be encouraged to go on
doing well, or even to do better. If they think for example, that we are
deserving of credit for the neatness with which books are kept,--for
their freedom from blots or scribblings, or dog's-ears, by which
school-books are so commonly defaced, let them tell us so. And the same
of any other excellence."

With the plan as thus presented, the scholars were very much pleased. It
was proposed by one individual that such a Committee should be appointed
immediately, and a report prepared for the ensuing week. This was done.
The Committee were chosen by ballot. The following may be taken as a
specimen of their reports.

WEEKLY REPORT.

'The Committee appointed to write the weekly report have noticed
several things which they think wrong. In the first place there
have been a greater number of tardy scholars, during the past week
than usual. Much of this tardiness we suppose is owing to the
interest felt in building the bower; but we think this busi