The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-26

purposes The manual work of the school IS similar to that of other man. ual framing schools of the country-for slrls' sewing, dressmaking, wood-carv- Ing, clay-modeling, cooking and domes- 1 JIG science, and freehand drawine. for 1 poys, woodwork, pattern work. black smlth1ng, forging and rnachine-shop ! work and mechanical drawing similar ! to other manual training schools. The 1 course is four years course, with the manual work alternating with book or | academic work.
 In order to carry on manual work large and commodious rooms are nee essary and such rooms are to be Sound in the Boardman school. Out of |, total floor space of 26,757 feet, 1925 feet are 1 devoted to the various branches of manual work and to the boiler and en- 1 zine room leaving S,642 feet Of space | for book or academic work or approxi- mately one-third of the building In this S,462 feet are included the two lab oratories and two small rooms designed for manual training purposes.
 The very nature of manual work re-
 
 carry on the ordinary school work than where pupils sit side by side, reciting 1 in class rooms. Any manual training school is carrying on two lines of work the book or academic work and the shop or manual work, and this double line of | work requires greater space for a given number of pupils than is necessary in an ordinary school.
 | The building can possibly accCmmo- l date 400 pupils, but this number will | crowd the building, cause the abandon ment of all morning and general eXer- cises and will mean that many of the pupils will be obliged to return in the afternoon for drawing and manual work Any number of pupils beyond | that would be to repeat present Hill l house conditions at Boardman, which would be unwise. Hillhouse would not l be relieved sufficiently and neither school would be nor could be in satis- l factory condition. This number of 400 | the Boardman school will nearly reach 1 one year from next fall, the earliest possible time at which a new building would be available if we are to have a new building.
 | In other words, the Boardman build 1 ing is large enough, and only large enough, to take care of it's natural in 1 crease If there is any extra room it is so small as to afford only a small frac- tion of the relief the Hillhouse building 1 demands.
 | By no means could the scientific pu- pills at Hillhouse, beyond the present ! school year, find room at Boardman. | There are upwards of hundred of 1 these pupils Neither could the com mercial pupils, 165 in number, be ac- ! commodated for similar reasons and be- cause there is but one large room at the 1 Boardman, and at least one large room 1 must be available for a commercial de- j partment. This one room at Boardman seats 104 pupils and is needed constant i ly for various purposes by Boardman ! pupils Moreover, if there were room, i would it be wise to force the parents of i these pupils to send them to the Board- man when these parents have had the continual option of sending their sons l and daughters to manual training 1 school if they so desired? Again, is it 4 good economy to give manual training to 100 or 200 pupils, or any number of high school pupils, when neither they nor their parents want it? I say good economy because of the fact that while I believe thoroughly in the value of manual training, yet the instruction per capita is necessarily more extensive than in an ordinary school.
 1 Lest it be said that the Boardman school could accommodate more than 400 pupils, I may add that in recently 1,;r cnI,n t,onr nth ho fx1n ,tIy 1 feet of floor space is given each pupil. ] In grammar schools it is agreed by ex-
 perts that at least sixteen feet should
 be given to each pupil. For example, in our Ezekel Cheever school there is a floor space of 5000 feet for 336 pupils, or i IFS feet for each pupil. Manifestly, as
 high school pupils are older and on ac-
 count of laboratories and small recita-
 tion rooms, more space is required. In the English high school at Cam
 bridge, one of the most carefully plan
 ned high schools, but by no means one
 of the most expensive ones, in the coun-
 try, there are 23 4S-100 square feet per | pupil. On the basis of twenty-one feet
 per pupil the Boardman could accom-
 modate 402 pupils.
 But there is another method of arriv-
 ing at this conclusion. There is a total 1 number of twelve rooms in the Board man available for academic purposes
 and this number includes two rooms | which should properly be used for man. | ual work. There are six periods in the
 school day and five school days. It is | possible then, for each room to accom-
 modate thirty classes. This would be
 360 classes per week. Next fall term
 there will be approximately 300 classes week in the school.
 It should be remembered that in the actual running of a school it is abso- lutely impossible and impracticable tc
 so arrange the work as to use every
 recitation room every period during the
 week. Sixty classes a week are by nc
 means too large a margin to allow fol
 the difference between theory and prac- tice.