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Excerpt from The Accredited Secondary Schools of the North Central Association I wish also to acknowledge my indebtedness to Profs. Horace A. Hollister and James B. Edmonson, who kindly read the manuscript and Offered many valuable suggestions. The general procedure followed in the study was as follows: The original school reports were first classified in workable groups and the data transcribed on large charts, by States. From these detailed charts, which contained virtually every item reported by each school and each teacher, tables of condensed material, by topics, were formed. Finally, from these tables other summarizing tables, charts and graphs were produced.' Only the latter appear in the pages which follow in the bulletin. While the utmost precautions have been taken to make the study accurate and clear, discrepancies (and possibly apparent errors) are likely to be found in certain tables and conclusions. Superintend ents and principals, in filling out the annual blanks, were not always guided by like powers of discrimination and exactness. Omissions frequently occurred. Approximations were sometimes used, and, occasionally, obvious clerical errors were discovered. Nevertheless. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.