St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-08
Webster School-Miss E. Thuet, Miss

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books. Respectfully submitted.
3. f. WRIGHT, Chairman.
Accepted, adopted, and appointments
nantz, Minor, Murphy, Simmon, Giesen,
Williams, Wright, Athey, Schiffmann,
Berlandi, Haas, Dobner and Mr.. PreSi-
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From the Committee on Manual Train
ST. PAUL, Mimi, March 5, 1888.
To the Board of Education:
AS authorized and directed by the
Board at the last regular meeting, the
Committee on Manual Tfaining begs
leave to submit herewith three-years'
course of study for the Manual Training
school. The course, as prepared, will
admit pupils who have completed the
work of the seventh grade in our
schools, and also those who have COM
pleted the work of the eighth grade,
thus giving pupils above the seventh
grade an option to continue course OF
instruction which would eliminate in the
High school OF an admission to
the manual training school, which
would graduate pupils who have passed
over the course arranged by the COM
mittee.
Next autumn there would be but two
classes represented in the school, thus
deferring for one year the necessity OF
an expenditure for fitting up the room
for metal work, which should be used
during the last year of the course.
The features of the course in manual
training advocated by this committee
are:
First-The shop work is but part of
a scheme of hand training which be-
gins at the very entrance of child upon
school life. The applied kindergarten
work of the primary schools. the con-
structive work in connection with in
dustrial drawing of the intermediate
grade and the shop work OF still
higher grades are all manual training
and recognize the Importance OF teach
ing children and youth something of
method of expression of thought other
than by language.
Second-It is based upon the aSsump-
ton that courses of study for public
schools are now overcrowded, and that
to obtain any results that would be
worth while in the introduction of shop
work something must be replaced and
omitted. A lesson or two each week
taken by pupils who already have too
much to do Will not meet the case.
Hand training, not amateur carpentry,
is the aim of this Committee.
Third-The fact that comparatively
few of the pupils of the schools ever
reach the High school is not forgotten.
Shop work, therefore, is placed at as
early period in the course as the ma
turity and physical development of
pupils will permit.
Fourth-Instead of multiplying the
manual training schools with expensive
equipments, or attaching them as all
neXeS to a number of schools, all
pupils who desire to avail themselves
of its benefits are collected in one CEN
tral, well equipped building where
mental and manual training go to-
gether.
The following is the course of study
recommended by the committee:
FIRST YEAR.
First Term-Arithmetic, United States
history, English grammar, drawing one
hour per day, shop work two hours per
day.
Second Term-Arithmetic, United
States history, English grammar, draw
ing one hour per day, shop work two
hours per day.
SECOND YEAR.
First Term-Algebra. English comp0-
sition OF Latin, physiology, drawing one
hour per day, shop work two hours per
day.
Second Term-Algebra, English COM
position or Latin, physical geography,
drawing one hour per day, shop work
two hours per day.
THIRD YEAR.
First Term-Geometry, history or
Latin, physics, bookkeeping, drawing
one hour per day; shop work, two hours
per day.
Second Term-Geometry, history or
one hour per day; shop work, two hours
per day.
Latin is an optional study in the
course to meet the requirements of
chronological schools, which many OF
our graduates would seek to enter.
The following is submitted as an out
line of the work in drawing and shop
work for the three years covered by the
foregoing course of study.
FIRST YEAR.
Drawing - Freehand, object and
model; freehand projection and work.
ing drawings, mechanical geOmetric
problems.
ShOpWork - In carpenter shop,
proper care and use of tools; carpentry,
joining, wood carving.
SECOND YEAR.
Drawing and sections,
photographic and isometric projections
building construction.
ShopWork-In pattern shop, wood
turning, pattern making, care and use
of such woodworking machinery as
lathe, planer, circular saw, jig saw.
band saw, moulding and casting in soft
metal.
THIRD YEAR.
Drawing-Machine and building con-
StructiOn Ito scale and with dimensions,
elementary principles of and work in
machine design.
Shop Work-In the machine room,
chipping, filing, drilling, turning, mill
ing, fitting, Setting-up, care and man
agement of steam engines and boilers.
While the plan outlined by the Com
mittee does not involve large eXpendi-
ture at the present time, the fitting up
of rooms for work in metal being de-
ferred one year, an outlay OF about
$4,000 will be required for properly
equipping the shops for wood work and
for the purchase of tools necessary for
the instruction of the pupils that it is
estimated will apply for admission to
Ile privileges ol tue ScHool HeXI atl-
tumn.
The Committee has examined the
plans of the addition to the High School
and finds that quarters suitable to the
needs of the Manual Training School
for some time to come will be available
in the new building. Respectfully sub
mitted. B. F. WRIGHT, Chairman.
Accepted and adopted by:
YeaS-InSpectOrS Minor, Murphy,
Simmon, Giesen, Williams, Wright,
Scbiffmann, Berlandi, naas, Dobner
and Mr.. Presidential.
Nays-Inspectors Kouantz and Athey
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