Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-29

ley. from the great body of the people, and
devoted, like him, from youth to industry.
We can easily imagine the pleasure it
would have given him, interested as he
was In all such boys and girls, to know
that his name would be given to a building
for this use.
What name could be more appropriately
placed on this building? What name would
suggest nobler example or furnish a more
stimulating incentive? For he was gen.
tleman OF the truest sort, gentle and
manly; a worker not an idler; an optimist,
not a pessimist; public spirited and patri-
otto; living the Life and therefore dying the
death OF the righteous; enduring as seeing
Him who is invisible; commanding the af-
lection as well as the admiration Of the
civilized world"
DR.. Harris Speaks.
At this point in the exercises the school
sang Nearer, Ny God, to Thee" one of Mr..
McKinley's favorite hymns, after which DR..
Harris spoke Of the work Of the manual
training in the system Of public education.
The new school, he said. belongs to a new
movement in education. In Washington,
however, 1t Is not especially regarded as
new movement, because the national capital
was one of the first cities to institute the
work in connection with its educational sys-
tenn.
He told of the influence of industrial edu-
cation as relating to the development of
other countries and particularly in Russia.
where In only a few years the people OF
that land increased their capacity for pro-
duction from seven to eleven cents per
capita after the establishment Of the indus
trial system in their schools
1.-The great object of manual training"
said DR.. Harris, rs to instruct the child so
that he may be able to obtain the expert
ence Of all other men and become acquaint-
ed with nature SO that he may be able to
use its forces. This Is an age Of machinery,
and age of the conquest of nature.
The nation is much more powerful than
1t was many years ago, and one great FACTOR
in the development of power Is the fact that
the people have learned how to use machin-
cry One hundred years ago the average
production of the men. women and chlldren
of the United States was equal to about
ten cents q day. Now the average produce
ton per capita Is about hfty-tWo cents
day" y
The speaker declared that the high schools
Of the country, I'm taking up secondary edu-
cation. are becoming more and more useful
in developing citizens and in making 1t
possible to utilize Fthe resources OF the
country. a5ei us
Mr.. Chamberlain Speaks.
Mr.. Chamberlain, in a brief address, gave
a history Of the manual training movement
said, during the superintendency Of Mr..
Wilson. when Prof. Coyle, one Of the IN
structors in physics in the Central High
School, inauguratedl an elementary Indus
trial training system IN connection with his
classes. II n,
The first teacher In manual training was
appointed in 1886, and the following year
five instructors in that line OF work were
installed In the District schools. He said
that the growth of the movement has been
slow but certain, and now there are twenty
five shops In the city and suburbs where
white and colored boys in the seventh and
eighth grades are instructed in the indus
trial branches.
The, total number Of male pupils. white
and colored, receiving training IN this form I'm
girls receiving instruction In cooking and
III 600 girls who are being taught sewing
and essential household duties.
In closing Mr.. Chamberlain presented the
KEYS of the new building to the principal,
Prof. A. l. Gardner, with the remark that
the new structure is the best school for
manual training yet erected in this country,
and probably the best in the world.
In Memory Of Mckinley.
Before the singing of America" by the
school, which closed the program, Commits
sioner Macfarland suggested that as per-
sonal commemoration OF President McKin-
ley's birthday the members Of the school
wear a carnation, the late Presidents ia
vorite flower.
After the close Of the exercises many of
the visitors accepted the invitation Of the
principal of the school to inspect the vari-
GUS rooms and observe the pupils at work.
Several hundred girls were found engaged
in sewing and cooking, while through the
shops the boys, clad in their overalls and
Jumpers, were busy with woodwork ma
chinery and forge The appointments OF
the various rooms and the equipment for
work are regarded as excellent.