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West Victoria Institute at its tiltieth anniversary. Auxiliary Classes For Rural Schools With the Women‘s institutes of Ontario now making it one of their major protects to have auxiliary teachers for rural schools where they are nor-clot, it is interesting to know that the Institutes were pioneers in the movement to have auxtliary classes es- tabhshcd forty years ago. We have this information from an old Report Book. At the convention of 1914. Dr. Helen Moe Murchy referred to some of the things which had been accomplished through the efforts of the Women's Institutes, stating that With- out their assistance it would probably have been lt'npOSSiblt' to have the Auxiliary Classes Art passed In 1914, relating to the education of defective children. The follow- ing extract from the Art shoWs the scope of these classes. "Sertton 3â€"Thc pupils of Auxtliat‘y Classes are to be those who from any phystcal or mental cause are unable to take advantage of the ordinary public or separate school courses; children who are of low grade or mental detectn'eness and cannot be taught In such classes are not eligible for admission. "Children who cannot see or hear well enough to learn in the ordinary classes. espe» rially the deaf or semi-deaf, and the blind or semi~blind, as well as those whose general health is so poor that they need open-air classes, and those who have difficult] learning of a less evident, definite or ascertained character are all entitled, t. the Act, to the advantage of instru which will give them the education other children get in ordinary classes." This great achievement, the result of of effort and agitation by the Women‘ stitute, stands out as a beacon light 0- path of its progress, Through it, 11 standards have been improved immeasu, in the rural sections, and the thing which they fought, in the way of mo: dental and nursing services for the school children of Ontario, are toda commonplace and are taken 50 mud granted as an integral part of the systt education that one is inclined to wonder the initial battle for them was so long hard. This story has been told in some detb indicate the perseverance and skill which the Women’s Institute sought it: lBCtiVe and finally attained it. Miss E Moore, Director of Ontario‘s Public Ht Nursing Service, has said, “The Won Institutes have been largely responsiblt the establishment of the Public Health ing Division of the Department of Healt