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Junior English History
30
37
41
17
13
NOTE-The figures show the number in each class on October 27, 1899.
11:15 to 11:55
44 or 41
43
17
23
32
Sub. Classics
Sub. U. S. H.
30
33
30
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KIRKSVILLE STATE NOREAL SCHOOL.
WORKING PROGRAM, SHOWING ORGANIZATION OCT. 27, 1899-CONTINUED.
DOBSON 1
GENTRY 3
WEATH- ERLY 9-19
DOUGH- ERTY 7
OWEN E. H.
Ross 2
GARWICK A
Junior English History 19
Freshman Latin 35
Junior Chemistry 32
Sophomore Biol.
34
35
Mid. Fr. Drawing 36
Sophomore Sophomore Ancient Latin (Caesar) 38 History 43
Freshman Physical Geography 33
Sub. R. & V. C. 39
Sub. Geog. 23
Sophomore Ancient History 39
Mid. Fr. Latin Middle of 1st Latin Book 32
Senior Physics
Sophomore Biol.
Sub. R. & V. C.
Sub. Geog,
Beginning Music
12
32
27
14
20
>Sub. U. S. H.
Junior Latin (Cicero) 16
Sophomore Biol.
Freshman R. & V. C.
Vertical Writing
Sophomore Music
26
34
25
20
41 or 44
Senior Political Economy 18
Senior Latin (Sallust)
Mid. Sub. Physiol.
Sophomore Biol.
Sub. R. & V. C.
Sub. Arith.
27
16
35
20
36
Mid. Sub. Civ. Goy't (Hinsdale)
Mid. Soph. Latin Middle of Cæsar 15
Junior Chem.
Sophomore Biol.
Freshman R. & V. C.
Sub. Arith.
Beginning ,Music
35
32
11
18
28
15
Sub. R. & V. C.
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KIRKSVILLE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.
TEXT BOOKS.
It is the intention to use in the main the same text books in this Normal School as are used in the public schools of the state, but with this reservation: That new and improved books may occasionally be introduced when the same are manifestly better adapted to the needs of the school than the older ones are.
Students should bring with them all their text-books, since many of their old books not needed for class-room purposes will still be useful for reference.
The adopted books are in the list below and printed in italics:
AGRICULTURE: James, Voorhees, Bailey.
ALGEBRA: Smith, Wentworth's Shorter Course, Milne.
ARITHMETIC: Milne, Speer.
ARITHMETIC, MENTAL: White.
BIOLOGY: Boyer.
BOTANY: Bergen, Gray, Youmans, Wood, Bessey.
CHEMISTRY: Shepard, Torrey.
CIVIL GOVERNMENT: Hinsdale, Rader.
DRAWING: White, Prang.
ENGLISH HISTORY: Green.
GEOGRAPHY: Rand-McNally, Natural, Frye.
GEOMETRY: Wells, Wentworth, Phillips und Fisher.
GRAMMAR: Whitney, Conklin, Reed and Kellogg, Patrick, Southworth and Goddard.
HISTORY, ANCIENT: Myers.
HISTORY, MODERN: Myers.
HISTORY AND CIVIL GOVERNMENT OF MISSOURI: Rader.
HISTORY OF EDUCATION: Painter, Quick, Compayre.
HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES: Montgomery, Barnes, Rid- path, Scudder, McMaster, Fiske, Morris.
LATIN:' Grammar-Bennett, Allen and Greenough. First Year -First Latin Book, Collar and Daniell; Second Year-Caesar, Kelsey; Composition, Daniell; Cicero, Allen and Greenough, (two orations); Third Year-Cicero (two orations); Vergil, Comstock; Fourth Year-Sallust, Herbermann; Horace, Shorey and Kirtland; New Latin Composition, Daniell.
LITERATURE: Blaisdell, Hawthorne and Lemon, Matthews, Painter, Taine, Royce, Welsh.
Music: Not yet adopted.
MYTIOLOGY: Guerber.
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PENMANSHIP: Natural System.
PHYSICS: Hall and Bergen, Gage.
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY: Tarr.
PHYSIOLOGY: Carpenter, Martin, Colton, Baldwin, Stowell.
PSYCHOLOGY: Halleck, Roark.
RHETORIC: Herrick and Damon.
TRIGONOMETRY: Crockett.
ZOOLOGY: Holder, Colton, Packard, Orton.
DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES.
Certificates of advancement signed by- the President are given to those who complete the Freshman Year in either the Latin Course or the English Course; also to those who complete the Junior Year.
To those who complete the Sophomore Year in either the Latin Course or the English Course the "Elementary Certificate" is given showing the course completed. This Certificate author- izes the holder to teach in any county of Missouri for a period of two years from date.
To those who complete the Senior Year in either the English Course or the Latin Course the diploma of the school is given designating the course completed.
This diploma authorizes the holder to teach in any public school of Missouri during life, if not revoked for cause.
GRADUATE COURSE.
MASTER OF SCIENTIFIC DIDACTICS.
This diploma will be issued to such graduates as teach suc- cessfully for three years after graduation and complete a course of reading such as the one designated below.
Each applicant shall submit satisfactory proof of such course of reading as well as evidence of successful teaching, all of which shall be considered and passed upon by the President and Faculty. Each applicant shall also submit a thesis of from 4,000 to 5,000 words on some educational subject, both subject and thesis being approved by the Faculty. In view of the abund- ance of new educational literature candidates for graduation in June, 1901, are recommended to submit reviews of one or more of the recent publications on some pedagogical subject. Candi- dates for this degree must send to the President of the Faculty
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their theses or reviews and evidence of the course they have pursued at least four weeks before Commencement. They must be present Commencement Day to receive their diplomas, unavoidable circumstances alone excusing them. The following course of reading is recommended:
1. Buckle's "History of Civilization in England," or Draper's "History of the Intellectual Development of Europe," or Leckey's "European Morals."
2. Klemm's "European Schools," or Davidson's "Education of the Greek People," or Quick's "Educational Reformers."
3. Mclellan and Dewey's "Psychology of Number," or Hins- dale's "Teaching the Language Arts," or Froebel's "Education of Man."
4. Greenwood's "Principles of Education Practically Ap- plied," or Sully's "Teachers' Hand Book of Psychology," or Park- er's "Talks on Pedagogics."
5. Rosenkranz's "Philosophy of Education," or "Spencer's "Education," or James's "Talks on Psychology and Life's Ideals."
6. Halleck's "Education of the Central Nervous System," or Romanes's "Animal Intelligence," or Warner's "Study of Chil- dren.
7. Burrage and Bailey's "Sanitation and Decoration," or Kotelmann's "School Hygiene," or McArthur's "Education in its Relation to Manual Industry."
8. Froebel's "Pedagogics of the Kindergarten," or one year's reading of "The Educational Review," or one year's read- ing of The J. O. Witter Co.'s "Art Education.
9. Baldwin's "School Management and School Methods."
LIBRARIES. 1
Our General Library, consisting of some three thousand standard works of Science, Poetry, Fiction, Art and History, is thrown open from 8:00 a. m. to 3:30 p. in. daily. Students are permitted to enter this Library at will, select such books as they desire to read and use the large Assembly Room or Chapel as a Reading Room, returning the books to the library when done with them. When books are taken out to be carried farther than the Reading Room a record is made of the fact.
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A NEW FEATURE.
During the past year a small special library was placed in each of the regular recitation rooms; also in the Training School Department. These special libraries contribute in a high degree to the efficiency of the several departments.
LITERARY SOCIETIES.
Among the students four Literary Societies are maintained, the Philomathean, Senior, Zetosophian and Websterian Debating Society. Their meetings are held on Friday night or Saturday night of each week in well lighted halls. These societies are placed, so far as possible, on a self-governing basis and member- ship made optional with the student. The first three societies have been organized for many years and have such membership as to crowd their large halls to the utmost during the greater part of the year. The Websterian Debating Society is composed of about thirty young men chiefly in the Freshman year. The first three societies have exercises of many varieties including debates, orations, essays, declamations, music, etc. The Websterian De- bating Society confines itself chiefly to extemporaneous debates and orations. All students above the Freshman year are recom- mended to join one of these societies, yet it is not deemed advisa- ble to make membership in any society compulsory since the daily exercises in the Departments of Reading, History, Civics, Literature and Pedogogy cover almost all varieties of exercises which can be given in a Literary Society and it is held that the foundation for all really valuable society work and other public exercises must first be laid in the more systematic and thorough instruction of the classes in these and other departments of the institution. During the coming year students will be encouraged to organize additional debating societies similar to the Webster- ian for there seems to be no doubt that the class of young men of whom this Society was composed profited far more by the work done in their Society than they would have done by mem- bership in the other societies. This will not in any sense militate against the three old societies. They will continue to have a very large membership, sufficient beyond doubt to crowd their halls to the utmost.
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DICIPLINE.
During the past year the school was put upon a self-governing basis. Our students are understood to be men and women whose purposes are well settled, who have no time to lose, who have their life. work mapped out before them. We have no spying upon students' conduct and no checks or deportment marks for those trifling delinquencies which are liable to occur among the best of students. All students are put upon their honor. They are requested to behave in the presence of the President and Faculty just as they would do in the absence of such persons. In passing from room to room and in the Assembly Room, ex- cepting during exercises, students are encouraged to engage in quiet and pleasant conversation; they are made to feel as free from constraint as possible. It is thus found that the students themselves take much pride in the good discipline of the School. Disorder disturbs them as much as it disturbs the Faculty. They feel, as they have a right to feel, that they and the Faculty to- gether build up the moral tone of the institution. This consti- tutes the governing power. Ours is a discipline of self-control. It is a purely democratic plan of government. It relieves the Faculty of innumerable petty duties, appeals constantly to the manly and womanly pride of the students and renders the school a pleasant place. These students have a future of great promise. They realize this fact. They expect to control others. They are to be the teachers of Missouri. "He who would govern others must first learn to govern himself."
MEDALS.
THE R. M. RINGO MEDAL .- For the best original oration, R. M. Ringo, Treasurer of the Board of Regents, awards annually a $20.00 Gold Medal; but competition for this medal shall be con- fined to those holding membership in one of the Literary Societies and also membership in one of the three highest classes of the school, i. e., Sophomore, Junior or Senior, and whose graduation with the class is regarded as practically settled at the time of the contest. The number of contestants and the manner of their selection shall be determined by the Faculty. The date of this contest shall be during the third week before Commencement. THE LIBRARY PRIZE MEDAL .- There will be awarded a $15.00 Gold Medal for the best declamation given by any student below
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the Senior year; but no one shall be admitted to this contest who is not regularly enrolled in a Literary Society and in one of the graduating classes and whose record at the time of the contest does not point with certainty to graduation with his class. The date of this contest shall precede that of the oratorical contest; but the specific date of the same and the method of selecting the contestants shall be determined by the Faculty.
During the past year three prize medals were awarded: The R. M. Ringo Medal for the best oration was won by Mr. Enoch Seitz; the W. T. Baird Prize Medal for the best declamation by a young lady, by Miss Eloise Duty; the Library Prize Medal, by Mr. M. D. Boucher.
2040753
THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
The Young Men's Christian Association of the institution has been in existence since 1895. Its purpose is to maintain a high moral character and in every way to promote Christianity . among the young men of the school.
Devotional exercises are held every Sunday afternoon. From time to time special missionary meetings are held jointly with the Young Women's Christian Association. Classes for a sys- tematic study of the Bible meet once a week.
During the last semester a Y. M. and Y. W. C. A. reading room was fitted up. This room is provided with the best daily papers and other choice current literature, and is open on school days for the benefit of all students. An information bureau has been established with headquarters at the above mentioned read- ing room, which is on the second floor of the building. The ob- ject of this bureau is to assist new students in securing satisfac- tory boarding places, and to give them such information as they may desire, also introducing them to friends and rendering them various other acts of kindness.
The Association will conduct a series of excellent lectures - and musical entertainments at such prices as will be within reach of all. Much good was derived from the course the past year, and every one was well pleased. The entertainments were as follows: Dr. S. P. Henson, "Backbone;" Max Bendix Concert Company; Ex-Gov. "Bob" Taylor, "Love, Laughter and Song;" Park Sisters' Concert, Company; Dr. McIntyre, "Buttoned up People."
All letters addressed to President of the Normal Y. M. C. A. will receive prompt attention.
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CONDITIONS OF ADMISSION.
'1. Male applicants must be at least 16 and females 15 years 1
of age.
2. Those seeking admission for the first time must present satisfactory evidence of good moral character. A letter from the county commissioner or persons of well known integrity will be sufficient.
3. Those coming from other institutions of learning must submit satisfactory evidence of having been honorably dis- charged. :
4. Standing obtained recently in High Schools, Academies and Colleges on the approved list of the University will be ac- cepted by this Institution.
5. All students are requested to bring with them their grade cards, certificates, diplomas and other documents showing their standing in schools heretofore attended by them. These docu- ments facilitate the work of classification.
*6. Each applicant for enrollment in the School signs a "dec- laration of intention to follow the profession of teaching in the public schools of the State."
TWO DAYS FOR CLASSIFICATION.
The President and the Faculty will be at the Normal School building at 8:00 a. m. Monday, September 3rd, and Tuesday, Sep- tember 4th, for the purpose of enrolling and classifying students. All resident students are requested to visit the President's office for the purpose of classification on Monday, September 3rd. Non-resident students will be expected to reach Kirksville some time during the day Monday, September 3rd, an secure their boarding places. They should present themselves for classifica- tion on Tuesday, September 4th. On Wednesday, September 5th, recitations begin and will run on schedule time, 40 to 45 minutes for each recitation.
EXPENSES.
Expenses are from $25.00 to $40.00 per quarter. This is the total cost of board, light, fuel, books and incidental fee for ten weeks. Board costs $2.00 to $3.00 per week. This includes fur- nished room, light and fuel. Good homes in private families can always be secured.
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A great many students rent rooms and board themselves at from $1.00 to $2.00 per week. For this purpose either furnished or unfurnished rooms can always be secured at comparatively low rates. Many of our very best students board themselves or board in small groups.
The tuition is free. There is an incidental fee of $5.00 for a half term of ten weeks or $8.00 for a semester of 20 weeks. The payment of the incidental fee to the Treasurer secures for the student a right to enter the classes of the institution. In no case will the incidental fee be refunded.
Students should bring with them all their books for reference and for class room use.
We have from 75 to 80 daily recitations. Students prepared to enter the Normal School at all will find classes adapted to their purposes. Persons wishing to engage board or rooms or need- ing information of any kind pertaining to the school should ad- . dress the President, Kirksville, Missouri. Ladies coming alone will be met at the depot and boarding places found for them if they will send notice of the hour of their arrival. -
BEST TIME TO ENTER.
Students are specially urged to be present at the beginning of the year if possible. They thus secure a better understanding of the nature of their work. They are more certain of a satis- factory classification. Their presence at the beginning con- tributes much to the satisfactory arrangement of the program, since the program is made up in view of the wants of those stu- dents who are present at the beginning.
COME TO STAY.
It is helpful to attend any good school even for a short time; but the demand for thoroughly educated teachers is becoming very great. Educational agencies are enormously multiplying. Strong, resourceful, scholarly teachers are wanted; desultory, piece-meal education can not produce such teachers. Sound edu- cation is not made up of chips and whetstones. Lay your plans, look ahead. If you are starting to school for the first time come to stay all the year. Our best students lay their 'plans reaching far into the future so as to attend for a series of years. This is, the best way.
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ARTICULATION WITH THE STATE UNIVERSITY.
(FROM CATALOGUE OF UNIVERSITY.)
"Graduates of the three State Normal Schools in the ad- vanced Latin course of study as recently established will be ad- mitted to the University without examination and be permitted to enter without condition the Freshman Class in the A. B. and B. S. courses in the Academic Department, and the Freshman class in Engineering. They may also enter the Departments of Law and Medicine, and the School of Agriculture, and the School of Mines at Rolla. In any course, they may enter as much higher than Freshman as in the judgment of the professors their quali- fications permit." By recent arrangement our students secure advanced standing in several subjects.
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
Students are required to comply with the following and with such other regulations as the Board of Regents, President and Faculty may, from time to time, make known.
1 .. Unless excused for cause students are expected to be present at all general exercises of the School and must be present at every regular recitation and perform faithfully the duties as- signed them.
2. No student shall discontinue a study except for good cause of which the Department teacher and the President of the Faculty shall be the judges; but the classification of students and their re-classification after sickness, absence or other unavoid- able causes is strictly within the function of the President.
3. Students are prohibited from attending billiard rooms, pool rooms and other similar places of resort; but during the past year it was not necessary to call attention to this rule and it is not known that the rule was violated.
4. Students leaving school without being regularly excused by the President will be considered suspended.
5. All special privileges and excuses granted or required by these regulations must be obtained from the President of the Faculty or from such person or persons as may be designated by him.
SPECIAL DIRECTIONS.
1. "All books, wraps, hats, caps, over-shoes, umbrellas, etc.,
3.
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should be plainly marked by the owners thereof so as to be known wherever found.
2. The city residence of every student is required at the office. In case of change report should be made at once.
3. Every case of sickness should be reported promptly at the office. When any student is taken sick he or she is specially re- quested to send word to the office. The President and Faculty will thus be able to contribute much to the relief of students.
4. Reasons for absence from school or from any class are to be presented at the office before entering the class.
5. Regular Faculty meetings occur at 3:00, p. m., Mondays during the school session. Students should arrange their business with the Faculty to correspond to this time.
STATISTICS, 1899-1900.
MALES. FEMALES. TOTAL ..
Enrollment
372
370
742
Training School
43
49
92
Grand total
415
419
834
OCCUPATIONS REPRESENTED.
From the farm. 70 per cent.
Mercantile pursuits 10 per cent.
Professional other than teaching 10 per cent.
All others
10 per cent.
LOCALITY.
Number of counties in First Normal District.
44
Number of counties in the district represented. 38
Number of counties outside of the district represented. 7
Total number of counties. represented. 45
Number of students from Missouri 722
Number of students from other states
20
MISCELLANEOUS.
Total enrollment of school.
834
Proportion who defray their own expenses .60 per cent.
Proportion who have taught before entering. 35 per cent.
ENTERED AND GRADUATED.
Total number of Alumni 496
Total number of graduates in the Elementary course. 1,045
Total number of graduates in all the courses. 1,619
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COUNTIES IN THE DISTRICT REPRESENTED.
Atchison.
Gentry.
Nodaway.
Audrain.
Holt.
Putnam.
Adair.
Harrison.
Pike.
Boone.
Howard.
Platte.
Buchanan.
Knox.
Randolph.
Chariton.
Lewis.
Ray.
Clark.
Lincoln.
Ralls.
Callaway.
Linn.
Schuyler.
Caldwell.
Livingston.
Scotland.
Carroll.
Montgomery.
Shelby.
Daviess.
Monroe.
Sullivan.
DeKalb.
Macon.
Worth.
Grundy.
Marion.
COUNTIES REPRESENTED THAT ARE NOT IN THE DISTRICT.
Cass.
Pettis.
Wayne.
Franklin.
St. Louis.
Jefferson.
Texas.
STATES REPRESENTED.
Illinois ...
Missouri.
Pennsylvania.
Indiana.
Montana.
South Dakota.
Michigan.
Nebraska.
Mississippi.
Ohio.
Attendance in Normal Department Since Organization.
YEAR. PUPILS.
YEAR.
PUPILS.
1868-First year.
.140
1885-Eighteenth year 475
1869-Second year, 203
1886-Nineteenth year 405
1870-Third year. 3 3
1887-Twentieth year.
421
1871-Fourth year
321
1888-Twenty-first year
490
1872-Fifth . year.
434
1889-Twenty-second year 505
1873-Sixth year. 470
1874-Seventh year 668
1875-Eighth year. 709
1876-Ninth year
627
1877-Tenth year.
592
1878-Eleventh year:
534
1879-Twelfth year
468
1880-Thirteenth year 513
1881-Fourteenth year. 492
1882-Fifteenth year. 4 1
1883-Sixteenth year.
446
1884-Seventeenth year 501
1890-Twenty-third year.
520
1891-Twenty-fourth year
.560
1892-Twenty-fifth year
596
1893-Twenty-sixth year
606
1894-Twenty-seventh year
562
1895-Twenty-eighth year 620
1896-Twenty-ninth year.
623
1897-Thirtieth year
719
1898-Thirty-first year
737
1899-Thirty-second year
739
1900-Thirty-third year
742
COLUMBIAN-ENG.CO.
UPPER VIEW-LAKE IN NORMAL CAMPUS. LOWER VIEW-SCENE ON CHARITON RIVER."
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ALUMNI.
OFFICERS OF ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
C. S. BROTHER, President. Kirksville
J. SHELBY MADDOX, Vice-President. Columbia
IDA FINNEGAN, Secretary and Treasurer Kirksville 1
POST-GRADUATES.
DEGREE-MASTER OF SCIENTIFIC DIDACTICS.
1874 -* O. P. Davis.
1875 -* W. E. Coleman, W. N. Doyle, C. B. Daughters, J. C. Stevens.
1876-J. U. Barnard, W. H. Baker, C. W. Bigger, Thomas O. Cloyd, J. M. White.
1878-J. E. Chandler, Ada C. Oldham, C. W. Thomas.
1879-Jennie Burton, G. W. Cullison, Ella Carothers (Mrs. Dunne- gan) W. T. Carrington, N. B. Henry, Maggie Thomp- son (Mrs. Henry), E. E. Hollipeter, R. S. Iles, A. R. Orr, W: H. Vaughn.
1880-John Barton, Julia Lester (Mrs. Bosworth), Manlove Hall, John R. Kirk, Lowa Phelps (Mrs. Murdy), F. P. Primm, Thos. E. Sublett, Serelda Gilstrap (Mrs. Thomas).
1881-J. C. Dooly, *S. D. Ellis, C. L. Ebaugh, H. McGarry, *C. M. Polley, G. A. Smith.
1882-A. B. Carroll, J. A. Guttery, J. S. McGhee, I. N. Matlick, Flo. Northup (Mrs. Scheurer), Duke M. Wright (Mrs. Herron), W. E. Tipton, A. B. Warner.
1883-T. S. Cox, C. F. Foster, W. B. Holloway, Lulu Sharp (Mrs. Corley).
1884-W. B. Anderson, Olivia Baldwin, S. A. Conway, F. W. Guthrie, Charles Riggle, R. R. Steele.
1885-Cora Baldwin, Seldon Sturges.
1888-H. C. Long.
1889. Aven Nelson.
1892-Wm. D. Grove, Mary Trimble Prewitt, F. A. Swanger. 1893-Adaline Bell, Frank Wisdom Hannah, Marguerite Pumph- rey (Mrs. Smith , Walter H. Payne, Louise M. Trimble, John A. Whiteford.
1894-R. B. Arnold, O. W. Bowen, Fannie Gentry (Mrs. Lobban). 1896-Minnie Brashear, W. L. Riggs, J. H. Grove, J. H. Koontz.
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1897-Fanny K. McCoy, Sophia C. Watson. 1899-Z. Fletcher Wharton.
1900-A. B. Coffee, Geo. M. Laughlin, G. W. Pendergraft, A. P. Vaughn, Annie M. Wood.
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