Evening star., 1896-12-19

privilege of electing manual training for
six hours week. or as a major study in
place of some other branch.
Twenty-seven availed themselves of this
opportunity. This change proved sufi-
ciently popular and successful to warrant
further move. which was accomplished
at the opening of the following year. 1894
%. when the technical course was estab-
lished Its first members were taken from
the six-hour students of the year before
For the Little Ones.
In the lower grades the manual training
which the child gets is largely with the
naked hands, without tools. The course is
bound in by work in drawing. The manual
side of drawing is clearly seen and appre-
ciated as work. as well as art The child
is instructed i'll stick laying. the making of
different designs with colored sticks. the
cutting and folding of paper with different
figures and clay modelling.
This early form of manual training with
the hands alone educates to the highest
sense of touch. and the pupil. 1T is claimed,
having learned to feel and to do with his
naked hands, is more apt when he takes
up tools.
There are five distinct courses of shop
practice. extending over the six years from
the seventh grade to the fourth year High
School inclusive. The end sought in each
kind of work is to teach fundamental prin-
ciples and processes by means of simple,
progressive exercises.
The courses are as follows, 1t being un-
derstood that each has its related work in
drawing: Grades seven and eight. joinery:
High School. first year. wood turning: High
School, second year. pattern making and
forging. High School. third and fourth
years. machine shop work. In grades seven
and eight two hours week are given to
the shop instruction. which Is compulsory
In the High School it may be taken either
as an elective branch, two hours a week.
or in the technical course six hours a
no 81 hran iS 6aI for
the boys of the academic and scientific
courses in order that they need not en-
tirely forego the benefits of the tool in
structton. Heretofore a majority of the
boys in these courses have ayailed them
selves of this privilege.
Technical Course.
The technical course is similar to those
technical ana manual training courses
maintained in many of the principal cities
of the country for number of years past
and which were designed to enable high
schools better to meet the demands put
upon them by the advances in scientific
engineering and Industrial pursuits.
The course aims to give an English high
school education with manual training add
ed. 1t is designed for two classes of pu-
pills: % These wEo wish to prepare for
admission to some higher institution viz,
a polytechnic or scientific school, or the
scientific or engineering department OF a
university: and t2) those who plan to take
a part or the whole of a high school
course and then seek employment in some
chos Ell industry profession as bread
winners.
Proposed New School.
On account of the lack of room and ia
cilities for manual training the girls
course in it ceases when they leave the
grades. but If Congress agrees to give
siJo,GOo for new manual training school
and provide adequate equipment for it, both
boys and girls ii is claimed, will have the
same advantage and the course can be
made more complete and better results OBJ
tajnci-
The work done by the boys is shown by
the following partial enumeration: The
class of 1894 built an upright en-
gine of four horse power which is now
used to run the sxteen-light dynamo built
by the class of 1895. The class of '96 built
a twist drill grinder. thirteen piano lamp
stands ard two speed 1athes. The class
this year is at work sixteen-nch
engine lathe.
The teachers in the school are as follows:
j. A. Chamber, director; A. o. Gardner,
head High School work; X. b. Hayes and
F. r. Skinner, assistants High School