St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-24
A YEAR lN SCHOOL.
A Cursory Review of the School
Year About to Close.

Year About TO Close.
In another month the current school year
will draw to close, and its record will
show gratifying condition and
progress. During the year four
additions of eight rooms each have
provided for overcrowded schools and
two new buildings have been occupied.
But little money has been expended on az
chitectural or internal decoration, but the
schools are all literally supplied with the
apparatus and appointments that are neces-
sary and convenient. While improvement
and progress in work and method has shown
itself throughout the system, perhaps the
only notable general feature that has been
introduced during the year is that of con-
structive work, which has been connected
with the drawing work and preparatory to
the introduction of manual training into the
schools. In the drawing classes of
the grades below the high school
the pupils are taught to make the accurate
working drawings of simple articles and
are encouraged to work them out in wood
or other material at home. In this manner
the childs natural desire to make something
is recognized and trained in practical dir
rection. The drawing only is done in
clay and other materials, which theehil-
dren bring in, is interesting and surprising.
1t is thought probable that Industrial edu-
cation will be made a feature of all the
schools of certain grades. at the opening of
the next school year, though
NO DEFINITE PLANS
have yet been made. Some time ago the
board of education authorized a committee
for the visitation of the schools of other
cities where manual training has been intro
duced, but no visiting has been done, partly
because nobody had time to go and partly
because nobody pushed the matter.
When manual training is begun
here the work of the past year
will be found a valuable preparation,
Another marked feature of the year is the
enlarged work of the training school which,
on the opening of the year, occupied the
new Washington school. Four of the
rooms here are model schools, or
schools of observation, taught by model
teachers, while in the other rooms the
teaching is done by the pupils alternately.
A class of eighteen will graduate here this
year.
The growth of the high school in attend
ance this year has been remarkable, exceed
ing that of last year. The curriculum has
been partly rearranged, and the number OF
elective studies increased. During the yeal
library and readingroom have beer
established and the gymnasium improved
The High School World has had a success
full year, and has enough surplus to begin
another year in still better shape. The
high school has progressed in all its depart.
ments, further establishing its claim OF
being equal to the best in the country in
| how Of f,,cf ~. -
curriculum, pedagogical ability and mechan-
ical appointments. The graduating class
this year is the largest in its history. mum.
bering fortythree.
The evening schools did very successful
work during the winter, though their eff.
cheney was somewhat interfered with By
| the carnival. Upon the whole, the show.
ing in all departments has been very salts.
factory and PROMISING