It has been the aim of Mr. Scott and his associates to suggest exercises which would be appropriate for the observance of these several days, which would be of interest to pupils, and which at the same time would be of a character worthy of the dignity of the public schools of the state. Calvin N. Kendall _Commissioner of Education_ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Grateful acknowledgment is hereby made to the following publishers and authors for permission to use copyrighted selections: American Book Company, New York, for extract from Green's "Short History of the English People." D. Appleton & Company, New York, for Bryant's "America" and extract from Edward S. Holden's "Our Country's Flag." Henry Holcomb Bennett for "The Flag Goes By." Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, for "The Name of Old Glory," by James Whitcomb Riley. Boosey & Company, New York, for "We'll keep Old Glory Flying," by Carleton S. Montanye. Dr. Frank Crane for "After the Great Companions." Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, for extract from "The Book of Holidays," by J. Walker McSpadden. Reprinted by permission of the publishers. Copyright 1917 by Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Joseph Fulford Folsom for "The Unfinished Work." Harper & Brothers, New York, for extract from "The Americanism of Washington," by Henry van Dyke. Caroline Hazard for "The Western Land." Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, for Bret Harte's "The Reveille" and extract from "Our National Ideals," by William Backus Gitteau. Kindergarten Magazine Publishing Company, Manistee, Michigan, for nine selections, including two by Laura Rountree Smith and one by Mary R. Campbell. Macmillan Company, New York, for extract from "The Making of an American," by Jacob A. Riis, and "On a Portrait of Columbus," by George Edward Woodberry, used by permission of and special arrangement with the publishers. Moffat, Yard & Co., New York, for extract from "Memorial Day," by Robert Haven Schauffler. New England Publishing Company, Boston, for "Columbus Day" and Walt Whitman's "Address to America." From "Journal of Education." New York Evening Post for "America's Answer," by R. W. Lillard. New York Herald for Mrs. Josephine Fabricant's "The Service Flag." New York State Department of Education, Albany, for "The Boy Columbus" and an extract from speech of Chauncey M. Depew. Theodore Presser Company, Philadelphia, for "Our Country's Flag," by Mrs. Florence L. Dresser. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, for "In Flanders Fields," by John McCrae. Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia, for "I Have a Son," by Emory Pottle.